About Mary
Mary Slaton is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who uses practical therapy to help people move past obstacles and toward clearer goals. She focuses on everyday issues like anxiety, stress, self-esteem, and relationship difficulties. Her style is encouraging and goal-focused, with an emphasis on simple steps clients can take between sessions.
Mary draws on approaches such as cognitive behavioral work, psychodynamic thinking, and relationship skills to understand patterns that repeat across life areas.
Background and approach
She talks with clients about work, love, social connections, spirituality, and sense of purpose to spot patterns that either help or hold them back. Conversations are aimed at finding small, concrete changes that add up over time. She has two decades of experience and aims to help people rebuild a sense of satisfaction when life feels off balance.
Sessions often include checking how current habits and thoughts affect mood and behavior, then trying different ways of responding. The focus is on discovering what already works and building on it. Mary also addresses topics like grief, addiction, sleep problems, career concerns, parenting strain, and issues that affect women and young adults.
She supports people dealing with identity and LGBT concerns and can talk about military-related stress and veteran issues. Her approach combines practical tools and reflective conversation. Clients can expect a collaborative process that identifies patterns, tests new strategies, and tracks progress toward clearer, more attainable goals.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Mary commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques and the Gottman Method to address thinking patterns and relationship dynamics, and she also draws on psychodynamic ideas to explore longer-standing patterns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors to reduce anxiety and improve mood. The Gottman Method centers on skills for better communication, conflict repair, and building trust in close relationships. Psychodynamic work looks at recurring themes from the past that influence present choices and feelings, helping clients notice and change repetitive patterns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will listen to a client's goals, preferences, and daily life, then suggest methods that fit those needs. Together they adjust methods over time if something isn't working, mixing skills practice and reflective conversation as needed.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make therapy more flexible. Video sessions allow face-to-face interaction for skills practice and dialogue. Phone calls can be a simpler option when bandwidth is an issue or for quicker check-ins. Live chat and text messaging suit people who prefer shorter check-ins, ongoing written support, or the ability to fit a session around a busy day.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Parenting issues
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Texas, Louisiana
- Languages
- English