About Mary
Dr. Mary Torok helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, and life changes. She is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with eleven years of clinical experience.
Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at helping clients find clearer thinking and steadier routines. Mary uses talk therapy, skills practice, and brief coaching to address problems like anxiety, depression, grief, and sleep troubles. She also supports people coping with trauma, substance concerns, parenting strain, relationship conflicts, and self-esteem issues.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-world steps clients can try between appointments. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas and client-centered listening. That means she helps people notice unhelpful thoughts, choose values-based actions, and build small habits that matter.
She also draws on emotion-focused and dialectical skills when strong feelings or intense reactions come up. Mary has worked in outpatient, residential, classroom, and in-home settings, and she has experience offering remote care. She has helped people connect with community resources for work, education, and other supports when needed.
Her goal is to teach skills that reduce overwhelm and restore a sense of control. People who want clear guidance and a collaborative plan tend to do well with her style. She frames therapy as a partnership where practical tools and steady conversation lead to change.
Sessions move at a pace set by each person's needs and goals.
Using evidence-informed approaches in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on identifying what matters most and taking small actions that match those values, which can be useful for anxiety and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior and teaches practical exercises to shift unhelpful patterns and improve sleep, mood, and daily functioning. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) offers concrete emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal skills for managing intense reactions and improving communication.Picking the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped in the past. Together they decide which techniques to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is good for full conversations and skill demonstrations. Phone sessions can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is needed. Live chat or text messages work for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and keep continuity when life gets in the way.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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