About Mary
Mary Meehan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Missouri with 27 years of clinical experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, grief, or major life changes. Her style is warm and practical, focused on small steps that make daily life easier.
Mary creates a steady, nonjudgmental space for people to talk through painful memories and current struggles. Sessions emphasize clear skills and real-world strategies rather than abstract theory.
Background and approach
She listens for what matters most to each person and tailors the work to those priorities. Her work often includes looking at thought patterns, emotional reactions, and relationship cycles. She draws on client-centered methods and evidence-informed techniques to help people manage mood, impulsivity, and stress.
Practical tools for problem-solving and coping are introduced early so clients can try them between sessions. Mary also helps people process loss, major transitions, and issues related to parenting, caregiving, adoption, or blended family situations. When trauma or abuse is part of the history, she focuses on safety, stabilizing skills, and pacing the work to match each person’s needs.
People who come for career, communication, or self-esteem concerns find a collaborative partner in Mary. She blends narrative and emotionally-focused approaches to help people reframe painful stories and improve close relationships. The overall aim is steady progress, greater self-understanding, and clearer choices.
Therapeutic approaches and online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person's lead to find what feels right. It helps people gain confidence, clarify values, and make changes at their own pace.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to notice and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. It is often used for anxiety, depression, stress, and problems with focus or impulsivity.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and better interpersonal skills. It can be useful when strong emotions or relationship conflicts make daily life harder.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques collaboratively, and adjust methods based on your goals and what feels most helpful. This makes therapy more usable and relevant to daily life.
Online sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face interaction for skill coaching and deeper conversation. Phone sessions can fit a busy day or be used when bandwidth is low. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or when someone prefers writing to speaking. These options make it easier to receive consistent care without major travel and help fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Missouri
- Languages
- English
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