About Mary
Mary Radaker is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) practicing in Pennsylvania with 18 years of experience. She helps people who are coping with stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, and depression. Her work is straightforward and focused on practical change.
She aims to make the first steps toward feeling better easier to take. Mary creates a calm, nonjudgmental space for people to talk about what’s happening for them. Sessions focus on what matters most now, with plain language and clear goals.
Background and approach
She listens for patterns that get in the way and helps people try small, doable changes between sessions. Her approach draws on several methods, including client-centered work that follows the person’s lead and cognitive behavioral tools that address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses techniques from dialectical behavior therapy to teach emotion regulation and distress tolerance skills.
For people with trauma histories, Mary can incorporate EMDR-informed strategies when appropriate. People come to her for a range of concerns beyond core issues, such as body image, communication problems, relationship separation, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and isolation. She also supports people dealing with obsessive patterns, panic attacks, phobias, and mood or personality challenges.
Sessions are practical and collaborative. Mary helps people set clear steps and checks in on progress. Her style is warm, direct, and solution-oriented, suited to those who want structured help and real-life tools.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mary often uses client-centered work, which means sessions follow the person's concerns and priorities while the therapist offers empathy and reflection to help clarify goals. This approach helps when someone needs space to sort through feelings and make decisions.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT is useful for anxiety, mood problems, panic, and many everyday struggles because it teaches concrete skills to test different ways of thinking.
Dialectical behavior therapy skills are another part of her toolbox, offering techniques for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improved interpersonal effectiveness. These skills help people manage intense feelings and respond differently in stressful moments.
Mary treats finding the right approach as a collaborative process. She will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan based on what helps. That way the work stays focused and responsive to changing needs.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is good for face-to-face conversation, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat or messaging work well for brief check-ins or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to attend sessions from work, home, or other places that suit the person’s routine.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- Body image
- Communication problems
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English