About Mary
Dr. Mary Jane Preece uses a client-centered approach to make space for what matters most to each person. She is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) and a licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) who brings 20 years of experience working with stress, anxiety, relationships, self-esteem, and life transitions.
Her sessions are straightforward and practical. She helps people name what feels hard and builds small, concrete steps to feel better. Mary Jane blends talk with skills so clients can manage mood, cope with change, and handle demanding roles like caregiving or work pressure.
Background and approach
She also addresses trauma, grief, anger, and compassion fatigue with careful pacing and attention to safety. For people facing chronic pain, illness, fertility or cancer-related stress, she works to keep coping strategies realistic and usable day to day. Attention to attachment and family of origin issues is part of her work when those patterns affect current life.
Therapeutic tools include cognitive behavioral methods for changing unhelpful thoughts, dialectical behavior skills for emotional regulation, mindfulness to build present-moment skills, existential ideas about meaning, and a client-centered focus that follows the client’s priorities. Mary Jane aims for collaboration rather than one-size-fits-all prescriptions. She offers sessions in English and provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
Ohio is listed as her practice location and she holds AZ LPC and OH LPCC credential details as provided.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy puts the person’s concerns first and shapes sessions around what matters most to them. In practice this means the therapist listens closely, follows the client’s lead on goals, and tailors exercises so they feel useful in daily life.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and shifting unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by teaching practical steps to test beliefs and change routines. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) emphasizes skills for managing intense emotions and improving how people handle conflict and self-care. DBT skills can help with anger, relationship patterns, and strong emotional reactions.
Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques, and adjust based on what helps most. Clients and the therapist work together to set goals, track progress, and pick strategies that fit the client’s life and values.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet those goals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video is useful for longer sessions and face-to-face interaction. Phone can be a good alternative when bandwidth is limited or for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging work well for short updates, coaching-style messages, or when typing helps someone organize thoughts. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to use different formats as needs change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, Arizona
- Languages
- English