About Mary
Mary Ann Godefroy greets each person with a calm, practical style. She focuses on adults who are trying to manage stress, anxiety, relationship strain, mood changes, addiction, or major life transitions. Mary Ann uses straightforward conversation and clear tools so people can start making small changes right away.
She holds LPCC, which is Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, and also has LPC listed as a credential. With 14 years of experience in California, she brings steady support and a range of skills to sessions.
Background and approach
Her approach emphasizes listening first, then choosing methods that match a person's needs. Mary Ann combines approaches that include attachment work, client-centered listening, cognitive-behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior skills, and mindfulness practices. That mix lets her tailor sessions to problems like grief, trauma, ADHD-related struggles, caregiver stress, or substance use concerns.
She aims to boost coping skills and improve how people relate to others. Sessions move at a practical pace. People can expect help sorting priorities, practicing new responses, and building routines that reduce overwhelm.
The work often includes skill practice between meetings and checking how new habits fit into daily life. Her background spans counseling for mood disorders, addiction, trauma and life changes. Mary Ann draws on evidence-based strategies alongside conversational, goal-focused sessions to help people regain balance and move toward goals they care about.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Mary Ann uses cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and often focuses on small, testable changes that reduce anxiety or lift mood. She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early and current relationship patterns affect trust and communication. Attachment work can help when relationship worries or abandonment themes cause ongoing distress.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary Ann will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. She adapts methods over time so the plan fits the client's current needs and pace, and she involves clients in choosing which techniques to try.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people use visual cues and more in-depth conversation, while phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging works well for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or practicing skills between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, New Jersey
- Languages
- English