About Mary
Mary Skinner is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) in Florida who helps people with anxiety and a wide range of life struggles. She brings a warm, person-centered manner to sessions and aims to make talking about hard things feel manageable. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, so clients help shape their own goals and next steps.
Mary draws on cognitive-behavioral and acceptance-based methods alongside client-centered care. She uses practical tools to manage symptoms like worry, sleep trouble, and stress.
Background and approach
At the same time she pays attention to meaning, identity, and deeper life questions when those come up. With about 10 years of experience, Mary has supported people facing addiction, grief, trauma, relationship strain, self-esteem concerns, and mood challenges such as depression and bipolar disorder. She also works with issues like parenting stress, caregiver strain, compassion fatigue, and work-related burnout.
Sessions blend skill teaching with reflective conversation. Clients might practice behavior changes, learn coping strategies, and review patterns that keep problems going. Mary aims to offer straightforward tools alongside space to process feelings and life changes.
She offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit busy schedules and different needs. Sessions are conducted in English and are provided by a Florida LMHC. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used and appointments are scheduled based on availability.
Approaches you can try online and how they help
Mary frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside a client-centered stance. ACT focuses on clarifying values and practicing small actions that match those values while allowing uncomfortable feelings to exist. It can help with persistent anxiety, avoidance, and life transitions. CBT teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which is useful for worry, sleep problems, and mood symptoms. Client-centered work emphasizes a supportive, nonjudgmental relationship so clients feel heard while they try new strategies.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will work together with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on what helps most and encourages feedback about what feels useful.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation for fuller interactions. Phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit brief updates, journaling between sessions, or ongoing coaching-style support. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy days and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Intimacy-related issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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