About Mary
Mary Beth Ritchie is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and ADHD. She practices from Oklahoma and speaks English. Mary Beth keeps sessions frank and down-to-earth so busy people and worried parents can understand the work.
She focuses on practical change rather than jargon. Sessions aim to reduce symptoms, improve relationships, and help people meet life goals. Her style is nonjudgmental, warm, and occasionally lighthearted to make hard conversations easier.
Background and approach
Mary Beth uses a mix of approaches and adapts them to each person. She often combines cognitive behavioral techniques with acceptance-based ideas and mindfulness to help clients notice thoughts and take meaningful action. Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck or unsure about next steps.
Many clients communicate through asynchronous messaging as well as live sessions. Asynchronous messages give both people time to think and respond without scheduling constraints. Live options include video and phone sessions when real-time conversation is helpful.
Her background includes long experience across common and complex concerns such as trauma, depression, parenting strain, caregiver stress, and identity-related questions. She describes herself as compassionate and genuine, and she aims to tailor techniques to each person’s situation. If someone is exploring therapy options, she guides them through matching goals and methods to fit their life.
Approaches that fit online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting them block meaningful action. It is useful when someone wants to live according to their values despite ongoing worry or distraction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and trying small behavior experiments to reduce symptoms like anxiety or low mood. It is practical work that often includes homework between sessions. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention practices to calm the mind and reduce reactivity, which pairs well with ACT and CBT for stress, sleep, and focus difficulties.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they try methods and adjust them based on what makes sense for the client’s life and daily routine.
Online therapy offers a few practical benefits. Video calls allow real-time conversations similar to in-person visits, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or asynchronous text messaging make it easier to check in between meetings or fit therapy into a busy day. These options give flexibility for follow-up, homework, and processing thoughts without always needing a scheduled in-person visit.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma, Texas
- Languages
- English
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