About Mary
Mary Dellinger is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) based in South Carolina who offers practical, person-focused therapy. She draws from several approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship struggles. Sessions aim to be straightforward and focused on what matters most to each person.
Mary blends client-centered care with cognitive behavioral tools to tackle unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also uses mindfulness techniques to teach calming skills and psychodynamic ideas to look at how past experiences shape current behavior.
Background and approach
That mix lets her tailor work to issues like trauma, grief, addiction concerns, and mood differences such as bipolar disorder. People come for help with everyday pressures and more complex challenges. Case examples include coping with life changes, parenting stress, problems with intimacy, and sleep disruption.
Mary also supports those navigating ADHD, body image worries, attachment or abandonment struggles, and communication problems. Sessions typically focus on concrete strategies you can try between meetings. Mary helps clients set small goals, practice new ways of responding, and notice patterns that keep problems going.
She aims for clear, usable steps rather than only talk. With ten years of experience, Mary brings steady clinical work and a calm presence to sessions. Therapy is delivered online through video, phone, live chat, or text messaging.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and scheduling is arranged according to therapist availability.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person without judgment. It helps people feel heard and builds a collaborative plan based on their goals and values.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It gives concrete tools for managing anxiety, depression, anger, and habits that get in the way of daily life.
Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce reactivity and improve sleep and stress management. These short exercises are easy to use between sessions and can fit into a busy day.
Choosing the right approach is a process. The therapist works with each person to decide what feels like the best fit given their needs, goals, and preferences. That decision is revisited as therapy progresses so methods can be adjusted together.
Online therapy with Mary is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and shared visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and messaging are useful for quick check-ins, shorter reflections, or when writing helps clarify thoughts. These options make it easier to schedule regular work and keep momentum between meetings.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English