Mary Smith, LICSW

Mary Smith is a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, work through depression, build self-esteem, and navigate parenting challenges.

She often supports teens and young adults facing big life changes and questions about identity. Mary aims to create a warm, open space where thoughts and feelings can be shared honestly. Her style is direct but compassionate, helping people take small, practical steps forward.

Mary uses a mix of practical talking therapies to help people notice unhelpful thinking, try new behaviors, and reconnect with what matters to them. Sessions typically include clear goals, concrete tools to use between meetings, and time to reflect on what’s working. She encourages trying small experiments to test new ways of coping.

Many clients come for help with everyday pressures that build up into chronic stress and worry. She also addresses issues tied to relationships, attachment, past losses, body image, caregiver strain, and feelings of emptiness or shame. The work often combines problem-focused strategies with acceptance and values-based planning.

Mary practices in Alabama and offers therapy in English. She frames progress as gradual and collaborative, and helps people find approaches that fit their life and priorities.

How Mary uses focused therapies for online care

Mary often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts, clarify personal values, and take small actions that match what matters to them. ACT can be useful for chronic stress, worry, and feeling stuck.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and test thinking patterns that feed anxiety or low mood, and to build practical coping skills. CBT tends to focus on short-term, measurable steps that can reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals, needs, and preferences. She checks in regularly and adjusts strategies based on what helps most.

Confirm available session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Discuss scheduling and format when you set up your first appointment so sessions can match your routine and practical needs.