About Mary
Mary Meehan is a licensed professional counselor in Missouri with 27 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and the lasting effects of trauma and abuse. Parents who feel overwhelmed and people dealing with grief or changes in life find straightforward support.
Her approach is calm and practical, aimed at helping people manage day-to-day challenges. She provides a warm, nonjudgmental space where clients can talk through painful memories and learn new ways to cope.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on concrete skills as well as understanding patterns that keep problems stuck. That might mean identifying unhelpful thoughts, practicing emotion regulation, or retelling a difficult story to reduce its hold. Mary uses methods drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, emotionally focused therapy, and narrative approaches.
She adapts techniques to the person in front of her rather than following a single formula. The goal is to build practical tools the client can use between sessions. Her areas of focus include relationship and communication problems, parenting stress, self-esteem, eating concerns, anger, career transitions, ADHD, bipolar and mood concerns, and chronic health-related stress.
She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment, blended family challenges, caregiver strain, and chronic illness. Sessions are offered in English and Mary works with people internationally as well. She combines experience with a direct, compassionate style to help clients move toward clearer choices and better daily functioning.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building a trusting working relationship. It helps people gain clarity about their feelings and make choices that feel right to them. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and behavior and teaches practical exercises to change unhelpful patterns.Choosing the right approach is part of the process and will be done together. The therapist will ask about your goals, try techniques, and adjust the plan based on what helps most. That collaborative process makes sessions more relevant and efficient.
Online sessions can be held as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit a busy life. Video works well for in-depth conversations, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging allows short updates between meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, caregiving, or travel while using the methods described above.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English