About Mary
Mary Pollock is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 42 years in human services. She focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, addictions, mood disorders, and major life changes. Mary centers sessions on each person's experience and what they want to change.
Her work history includes inpatient and outpatient drug and alcohol programs as well as mental health treatment across settings. She has provided training and staff development for new counselors and has supported people through grief, relationship problems, and career transitions.
Background and approach
This background gives her a wide view of common struggles and practical ways to respond. In sessions she follows a person-centered approach, which means conversations start with what the client notices and needs. She also draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors.
Motivational interviewing methods are used when someone is weighing change or facing addictions. Mary often helps people build skills for coping with anxiety, managing depression, and handling family or communication problems. She also addresses caregiver stress, chronic illness concerns, codependency, and issues tied to trauma or abuse.
Her style aims to be straightforward and respectful, focusing on steps a person can try between sessions. People who choose her tend to want active guidance paired with listening. She works to make goals clear and practical.
Her long career means she is familiar with many community and clinical resources in Pennsylvania.
Approaches that guide online sessions
This therapist commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on hearing the client's view and building goals from what matters most to them. It helps people who feel stuck or unsure about their next steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will listen to your concerns and suggest methods that match your goals and preferences. Together you can try an approach and adjust it over time until it feels useful.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make care easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets you have a full conversation similar to an office visit. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or a check-in only is needed. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick updates or ongoing support between longer appointments.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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