About Mary
Mary Redding is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience in Mississippi. She works with adults who are facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and ADHD. Her style is calm and straightforward, aiming to make conversations clear and useful for everyday life.
Mary focuses on practical steps that help people handle family and parenting challenges. She also supports those coping with grief, trauma and abuse, and major life changes.
Background and approach
Sessions center on building skills for communication, anger management, and self-esteem so clients feel more steady day to day. Her approach blends several methods to match what each person needs. That can mean using acceptance and values-based work, exploring attachment patterns that shape relationships, or using cognitive strategies to shift unhelpful thoughts.
Techniques are chosen with the person rather than applied the same way to everyone. Mary has long experience helping people through career transitions, addictions, caregiver stress, and the complications of blended families and adoption. She pays attention to how family of origin issues and commitment or control problems affect current life.
In sessions she aims to listen first, then help set small, achievable goals. Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people can see changes. The overall goal is clearer communication, better coping skills, and more confidence in daily life.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people name what matters most and take small steps toward those values. It emphasizes accepting difficult feelings while taking action that moves life forward, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how past relationship patterns affect current connections. It helps people recognize those patterns and try new ways of relating, which can improve communication and reduce repeated conflict.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It often uses practical exercises and homework to build new skills for stress, anger, and low mood.
Mary will work with each person to find the best mix of approaches. She treats choosing an approach as a collaborative process, tailoring methods to goals, preferences, and what seems to help in early sessions.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls let you meet face to face when a longer conversation is needed. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief reflections, coaching-style check-ins, or day-to-day skill practice between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- 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
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 36 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
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