About Mary
Mary Slaton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with 20 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or life transitions. Mary also offers support around relationships, career questions, parenting strain, and issues like addiction or body image concerns.
Her approach mixes practical tools with attention to patterns from the past. She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors.
Background and approach
She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to notice recurring themes, and the Gottman Method to address relationship skills when relevant. In a first session she listens to what matters most and asks about different life areas - work, love, self, social life, and purpose. That helps map where change might have the biggest impact.
Sessions focus on clear goals and small steps people can use between meetings. Mary frames counseling as a collaborative process. She treats clients as capable people who may just need guidance and encouragement to find new options.
She aims for straightforward conversations and practical strategies that fit daily life. Her work includes support for issues such as sleep problems, self-esteem struggles, grief, and questions tied to identity, including LGBT concerns. Sessions are offered in English and provided to people located in Texas according to her practice setup.
How Mary’s Approaches Translate to Online Care
Mary uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try practical changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, stress, sleep problems, and changing daily habits.She also incorporates the Gottman Method when relationship skills are part of the work; that approach focuses on communication, managing conflict, and strengthening connection through concrete exercises. Psychodynamic ideas are used to spot recurring life patterns and how early experiences shape current choices. That perspective helps when someone wants to understand why they repeat the same behaviors.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will talk about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. She and the client decide collaboratively which methods to try and adjust them as progress is reviewed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for quick updates, homework check-ins, or when a written format helps someone reflect between sessions. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help therapy fit around work, parenting, and busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Louisiana
- Languages
- English
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