About Mary
Mary Foy is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa who helps people manage stress, anxiety, relationship concerns, grief, trauma, and ADHD. She approaches each person as the expert on their own life and focuses on practical steps to reduce distress and improve day-to-day functioning.
Her style is straightforward and supportive, aimed at people who want clear tools and steady encouragement. Mary draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to help clients identify unhelpful thoughts and build new habits.
Background and approach
She also uses trauma-focused methods for people coping with past hurt, and existential work when clients are facing big life questions. Sessions tend to balance skill-building with time to make sense of feelings and values. With 13 years of experience, Mary has worked across a range of concerns including addiction, mood disorders, sleep problems, parenting strain, and challenges related to identity.
She listens for what matters most to each person and adapts the approach to fit real-life needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan. Mary believes change happens in small, steady steps. She helps people set realistic goals, practice new behaviors between sessions, and track what works.
Her aim is to give tools that are useful outside the therapy hour. Sessions are conversational and practical. Mary offers different formats to suit busy schedules and varying comfort levels, and she works collaboratively to decide the next steps.
Online approaches that focus on skills and meaning
Mary uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot patterns of thinking that fuel anxiety or low mood, and then practices concrete behavior changes to feel and function better. Trauma-Focused Therapy is used when past events continue to affect daily life, helping people process those memories and reduce their hold on current reactions. Existential Therapy invites conversation about values, purpose, and decisions when someone faces big life transitions or questions about meaning.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative effort. Mary will listen to your goals and concerns, explain options in plain terms, and work together to try methods that seem likely to fit your needs. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps in real life.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when seeing body language matters. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, want brief updates between sessions, or need frequent, on-the-go contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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