Mary Walston, LCMHC

Mary Walston is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 11 years of experience helping individuals, couples, and families navigate difficult transitions and emotional challenges. She works with a broad range of concerns, including depression, anxiety, relationship and family problems, parenting struggles, career stress, grief, and the effects of physical trauma or emotional abuse. Mary emphasizes collaboration, guiding clients to identify root causes and repeating patterns that can interfere with personal and relational well-being.

Her counseling style is warm, accepting, and interactive, built on respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Sessions are tailored to each person's needs, and Mary combines evidence-informed methods such as cognitive-behavioral techniques and client-centered principles to create a practical, strengths-based plan. She draws on her training with families as well, adapting interventions to address family dynamics and to support healing across relationships.

Mary encourages those ready to pursue a more fulfilling life to take the next step toward change. She aims to empower clients through a supportive therapeutic partnership that focuses on repair, growth, and practical coping strategies. Mary Walston, LCMHC, looks forward to working with clients seeking meaningful and lasting progress.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Care with Mary Walston

Mary uses a combination of therapeutic approaches to meet each client's needs. Client-centered therapy focuses on building a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the client leads the pace of change and the therapist offers empathy and support - this approach can be especially helpful for people working through self-esteem, grief, or life transitions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) involves identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing practical strategies to change them. CBT is commonly applied to anxiety, depression, stress management, and coping with change. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relational patterns influence current relationships and emotional responses, making it useful for intimacy issues, relational conflict, and trauma-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative part of the work. Mary will discuss options, consider a client’s goals and preferences, and adapt techniques so they fit the individual or family. She aims to co-create a plan that balances short-term relief with longer-term growth.

Online therapy offers flexibility and access to care through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to schedule around work, parenting, or other responsibilities, and they allow therapy to continue when attending in person is difficult. Licensed professionals can use these formats to deliver many of the same therapeutic strategies used in traditional sessions, helping clients make steady progress from wherever they are.