About Mary
Dr. Mary Ann Hensley uses practical, person-focused therapy to help people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, and life transitions. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor with more than 23 years of experience in clinical settings.
Her style is straightforward and centered on helping clients find workable tools for day-to-day life. She blends cognitive behavioral methods with client-centered and trauma-focused approaches. That mix lets her address upsetting thoughts, build coping skills, and support emotional healing after difficult events.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to teach clear strategies people can use between visits. Dr. Hensley has worked with people facing depression, panic, grief, compassion fatigue, and self-esteem struggles.
She also supports clients dealing with ADHD, parenting challenges, blended family issues, and multicultural or immigration-related stress. These areas often overlap, and she helps people sort what matters most for them now. Her experience includes responding to domestic violence, sexual and other trauma, and the mental health effects of natural or human-caused disasters.
She pays attention to practical safety and coping needs while helping people regain a sense of control. People who prefer direct, collaborative therapy will find sessions focused on real goals and small, measurable steps. Dr.
Hensley encourages honest conversation and adapts techniques to each person’s situation and pace.
Practical approaches for online healing
Dr. Hensley commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving, which helps with anxiety, depression, and panic. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the impact of upsetting events with techniques that help reduce trauma-driven symptoms and build coping skills for day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before, then suggest strategies to try. They adjust the plan as progress is made so the work stays practical and relevant to the client’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different schedules and needs. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for more in-depth work. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill practice, and ongoing support between longer sessions.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English