About Mary
Mary McLaggan is a Licensed Professional Counselor with two decades of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. She communicates in English and Spanish and focuses on creating a respectful, compassionate space for each person she sees. Mary uses practical talk and clear goals to help people cope with everyday struggles.
She adapts conversations and strategies to match what each person needs. Sessions are centered on the person in front of her rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.
Background and approach
Her work draws on attachment-informed ideas to look at how past relationships shape current patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses client-centered and dialectical approaches to help people build skills, accept hard feelings, and find workable next steps.
Mary has experience across many concerns including ADHD, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, parenting stress, career worries, and compassion fatigue. She also supports people dealing with identity and relationship questions, body image, blended family challenges, and sleep problems. People who prefer a collaborative style will find her approach straightforward and steady.
She aims to make sessions practical and focused on what actually helps day to day. Mary works from Iowa and provides services using multiple online formats to fit different schedules. To begin, she asks people to choose the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a time that fits their availability.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships affect current feelings and patterns, and it helps people notice and change ways of connecting that cause pain or distance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and testing small changes to see what improves day-to-day functioning. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's own goals and experience, giving space for people to lead the pace and focus of work.Finding the right blend of methods is part of the process. Mary works together with each person to choose approaches that match their goals, needs, and preferences. She will try different tools and adjust plans based on what the person finds useful, so treatment stays practical and tailored.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video allows face-to-face conversation for deeper interaction, phone works when a camera is not needed or bandwidth is limited, and chat or text can fit quick check-ins or people who prefer writing. These options help people fit therapy into busy days and keep momentum between sessions.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Iowa
- Languages
- English, Spanish