About Mary
Mary Kallenbach is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, relationship pain, and trauma. She has worked in counseling since 1995 and brings steady, practical care to each session. Her tone is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at people who need clear steps forward.
Mary meets clients where they are and focuses on workable strategies. Sessions often include learning skills for managing emotions, changing unhelpful thinking, and building routines that fit daily life.
Background and approach
She draws on approaches that teach concrete tools people can try between meetings. Her background includes many years in inpatient and community settings along with long-term independent practice work. She has experience helping people after traumatic events and with complex emotional struggles.
That experience informs how she plans treatment and supports recovery. Mary uses a mix of therapy methods to match the person and the problem. She commonly applies Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, and EMDR when appropriate.
The goal is to reduce distress and increase usable coping skills. Clients can expect a collaborative process where problems are broken into manageable steps. Mary emphasizes clear communication, practical exercises, and steady follow-through.
She aims to help people feel more in control and able to handle everyday challenges.
Evidence-informed approaches for online care
Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which helps people clarify values and take small, meaningful steps even with hard feelings. ACT focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that matter to you. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, a hands-on method that identifies unhelpful thinking and tests new behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. CBT often includes practical homework to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work with each person to see which methods fit their goals, symptoms, and daily life. That conversation guides whether sessions focus more on skill-building, trauma processing, or emotional regulation techniques.
Online sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video lets you work more like an in-person visit. Phone sessions can be used when a quieter space or lower bandwidth is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging make it easier to check in between appointments or to have brief focused conversations. These options aim to make attending therapy more flexible and easier to fit into a busy life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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