About Mary
Mary Cole is a Licensed Professional Counselor who blends practical skills with a warm, person-centered approach. She creates a calm, nonjudgmental space where people can talk about stress, anxiety, trauma, and relationship struggles and start to feel more steady and capable. She uses a mix of evidence-informed methods to help people manage strong emotions and break unhelpful patterns.
That can mean building emotional regulation tools for mood swings, learning grounding and mindfulness techniques for anxiety, or practicing clearer communication to reduce conflict and codependent habits.
Background and approach
Mary also helps people strengthen self-worth and set better boundaries. She guides conversations about shame, guilt, and forgiveness in ways that feel manageable. Practical steps and small experiments are common in sessions so people can try new behaviors between meetings.
Her style is warm, interactive, and focused on the person in front of her. Sessions balance listening with clear, doable suggestions. Over 15 years she has supported people dealing with grief, workplace stress, parenting strains, panic attacks, and life transitions.
Mary works with adults in Georgia and offers sessions that fit day-to-day life. She emphasizes collaboration and follows each person’s pace while helping them build skills that hold up outside the counseling room.
How therapeutic approaches fit into online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and when people feel stuck moving toward life goals. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on a respectful, listening-based relationship where the therapist follows the person’s pace and priorities, which can help with building self-worth and processing painful emotions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical skills to reduce panic, manage mood swings, and change unhelpful reactions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to try methods that match their needs and preferences. That might mean combining mindfulness practice with CBT skills or using motivational interviewing to support change. The plan adapts as progress is made and as goals shift.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill coaching. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use isn’t possible. Live chat or text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when a shorter touchpoint fits someone’s schedule. These options help make regular therapy more manageable around work, parenting, and daily life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also listed
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Georgia
- Languages
- English