About Mary
Mary Redding is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience helping people work through stressful life moments. She focuses on practical ways to manage anxiety, stress, and relationship strain. Her style is calm and straightforward, aimed at parents and adults who need clear steps forward.
She draws on cognitive behavioral approaches to identify unhelpful thoughts and change daily habits. Mary also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify values and take small actions that matter.
Background and approach
Attachment-based ideas inform how she looks at patterns in relationships and family life. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. Mary listens for patterns in how a person handles anger, sadness, grief, or major transitions and then suggests simple skills to try between visits.
She helps parents with common parenting stresses and people coping with adoption, blended family issues, or caregiving strain. Over her career she has worked with concerns such as depression, addictions, compassion fatigue, ADHD, and trauma and abuse. She pays attention to both practical routines and emotional patterns so people can build steadier days.
Mary keeps language plain and focuses on what a person can do next. Mary practices in Mississippi and conducts sessions in English. She offers a warm, steady presence and practical strategies for people who want clearer coping tools and better communication in their relationships.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal values. It helps people with anxiety, life changes, and low motivation by teaching practical ways to commit to small, meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors interact and uses simple exercises to change unhelpful patterns. CBT is often useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it gives clear tools to try between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy examines relationship patterns and how early bonds affect current connections, which helps when family dynamics or communication problems are central concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will explore your goals and preferences and collaborate on which methods to use. That might mean starting with CBT skills, adding ACT ideas about values, or bringing in attachment-focused conversation depending on what feels most helpful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and skills practice, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for short check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing coaching-style contact between sessions. These options offer flexibility so people can fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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