Mary Spurlin, LPC

Mary Spurlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety. She presents a straightforward, supportive style and centers sessions on each person's strengths. Mary frames therapy as a partnership where clients lead with their stories and she offers guidance and practical tools.

She has twelve years of clinical experience working with grief, depression, trauma and abuse, and relationship and intimacy-related concerns. Her work also includes anger, self-esteem, compassion fatigue, and navigating major life changes. Additional areas Mary addresses include issues related to abandonment, aging, cancer, caregiving stress, first responder concerns, guilt and shame, post-traumatic stress, sexual assault and women’s issues.

Mary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and shift behaviors that increase distress. She also incorporates Trauma-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address lingering effects of trauma when appropriate. In sessions she aims to be practical, clear, and responsive to each person’s pace.

Her approach emphasizes small, concrete steps clients can try between meetings. She encourages people to use strengths they already have while learning new ways to cope. Mary aims to make the process manageable for someone juggling family, work, or caregiving responsibilities.

To begin, a person completes a short questionnaire and schedules a session. Mary works from Texas and conducts therapy in English.

Approaches that translate to online therapy

Mary often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and goal-focused, often useful for stress, anxiety, and depression.

She also uses Trauma-Focused Therapy and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing to address the effects of trauma. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets trauma-related memories and symptoms, and EMDR works with memory processing to reduce the ongoing impact of traumatic events.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Treatment plans are adjusted as progress and comfort levels become clear.

Confirm the current session options before booking, since specific formats are not listed in the biography. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that is helpful. It can also be a practical option when someone needs care while juggling work, caregiving, or treatment for medical issues.