About Mary
Mary Johnston is a Licensed Professional Counselor who uses practical, human-centered methods to help people manage stress, addiction, anxiety, and mood challenges. She speaks plainly and focuses on real-life solutions that fit each person’s day-to-day needs. Her approach is calm and nonjudgmental, aimed at making the first steps feel manageable for worried parents and adults.
Over ten years she has worked in different treatment settings with adults and adolescents in both individual and group sessions.
Background and approach
Much of her work has focused on substance use, depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic stress. She also helps people facing relationship strain, blended family challenges, parenting pressures, and questions about identity and self-esteem. In sessions she combines client-centered listening with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and short-term solution-focused work.
That means she listens first, then helps people test small changes that relieve symptoms and improve daily routines. Conversations stay focused on what matters now and next, not on abstract theories. Mary aims to make therapy useful and accessible.
She offers a mix of talking, problem-solving, and simple skills practice that people can try between sessions. Her manner is patient and straightforward, so clients can move at a pace that feels right. People who choose her work together to set clear, achievable goals.
Progress is measured in small steps like better sleep, fewer cravings, calmer reactions, or clearer communication at home. She practices in Tennessee and conducts sessions in English.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Mary blends client-centered listening with cognitive behavioral and solution-focused techniques to make online therapy practical and goal oriented. Client-centered therapy means listening first and shaping sessions around each person's priorities, which helps when someone is nervous about starting work. Cognitive behavioral therapy offers simple tools to change thinking and behavior patterns that feed anxiety, depression, or substance use. Solution-focused therapy concentrates on small, achievable steps and immediate goals to build momentum and measure progress.Finding the right mix of methods is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs, goals, and daily life. That collaborative work helps tailor sessions so tools are relevant and usable between meetings.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy easier to fit into a busy life. Video lets people read expressions and do deeper conversations. Phone sessions can work when less bandwidth or hands-free time is needed. Chat and text are useful for brief check-ins, step-by-step planning, or keeping momentum between longer sessions. These options give flexibility to schedule work around parenting, work, and daily demands while using the therapist's approaches to make steady progress.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Guilt and shame
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Tennessee
- Languages
- English