About Mary
Mary Stinson is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience helping people manage anxiety, stress, addiction, grief, and trauma. She uses a grounded, direct style and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Her approach is strengths-based and nonjudgmental, aiming to reduce repeating painful patterns.
Mary explains how stress affects the brain and behavior in plain language. She helps clients see why they make impulsive or self-sabotaging choices when overwhelmed.
Background and approach
That clarity often makes it easier to change small habits that matter. In sessions she blends tools from attachment work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and mindfulness. Clients practice skills to calm strong emotions, reframe unhelpful thoughts, and improve communication.
Sessions focus on what’s useful day to day, such as handling urges, facing triggers, or managing chronic pain and illness stress. Mary also uses trauma-focused methods when past hurt keeps showing up in relationships and daily life. She helps people with issues like abandonment, shame, guilt, and impulsivity so those experiences stop steering present choices.
The work aims to reduce reactivity and increase self-direction. Her style is straightforward but compassionate. She teaches concrete strategies and explains the reasons behind them.
People who want a mix of practical skill-building and understanding of how their brain responds to stress may find this approach helpful.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Attachment-Based Therapy helps people understand how early relationships shape current patterns. It looks at how connection and trust affect reactions and helps people build steadier responses in close relationships. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors. It teaches practical steps to reduce anxiety, manage urges, and break cycles of avoidance or impulsivity. Mindfulness Therapy teaches present-moment awareness and simple techniques to reduce rumination and intense emotional reactions; it can be useful for stress, anxiety, and chronic pain.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and what has worked or not worked before. Together they will try specific techniques and adjust the plan based on what actually helps in weekly sessions.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to make that work. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit during a work break. Live chat or text-based messaging supports brief check-ins, skill practice, or daily support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep momentum and integrate new skills into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Divorce and separation
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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