About Mary
Mary Beth Adams is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who combines practical therapy tools with a warm, person-focused style. She helps adults tackle stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship concerns, and ADHD by breaking problems into manageable steps. Sessions aim for clearer thinking, better coping, and steady progress rather than quick fixes.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior. Mindfulness practices are used to reduce reactivity and build calm.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy ideas help people clarify values and take small actions toward the life they want. Her background includes a decade of clinical practice in South Carolina supporting adults through life transitions, grief, caregiving stress, chronic illness, and addiction recovery. She also works with concerns such as intimacy, sleep problems, career stress, and issues tied to adoption or attachment.
The practice integrates faith when clients request it, alongside evidence-informed techniques. In sessions she listens closely, asks practical questions, and offers straightforward strategies to try between meetings. Therapy may include cognitive restructuring, behavioral activation, emotion-focused work, and skills for managing overwhelm.
Progress is tracked through clear goals and check-ins. Mary Beth offers remote sessions by video call, phone, live chat, or text messaging. New clients complete a brief matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability.
Costs use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people identify what matters most to them and take small committed steps toward those values, which can be useful for motivation, stress, and mood problems. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors through practical exercises and homework, often helping with anxiety, depression, sleep, and ADHD-related routines. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the therapist listens and reflects so clients feel understood and can find their own solutions.Finding the right approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. Together they adjust methods over time so the work fits the client's life and needs rather than forcing one fixed model.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people use visual cues and longer session work. Phone sessions require less bandwidth and can fit a lunch break or commute. Live chat and text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice, or ongoing support between longer meetings. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent when schedules are busy or travel is needed.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Virginia, South Carolina
- Languages
- English
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