About Mary
Dr. Mary Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas. She brings ten years of clinical work and a long curiosity about people's stories.
She hears parents' worries and helps them find steady ways to move forward. She uses clear, practical talk and hands-on strategies in sessions. Mary draws from client-centered methods to follow what matters most to each person.
She also uses cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thoughts and DBT skills to manage strong emotions.
Background and approach
Her background includes a Master of Arts in Counseling from Houston Graduate School of Theology and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M Corpus Christi. Before counseling, she taught art at the high school level and mentored in church settings, experiences that shaped how she listens and teaches new skills.
Mary has worked with people facing grief, mood challenges such as bipolar disorder, sleep and eating struggles, addictions, ADHD, and career stress. She also supports those dealing with abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and family of origin issues. Sessions are practical and collaborative.
Expect a calm, respectful tone, short-term skill building when useful, and space to tell your story. Mary aims to help people develop concrete routines, emotion regulation skills, and clearer thinking that fit real life. People who reach out typically want straightforward help with daily coping, emotional overwhelm, or life transitions.
Mary focuses on small, manageable steps that add up to lasting change.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following each person's priorities. The therapist creates a respectful space and helps clients set goals and choose what to work on. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and teaches practical techniques to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and sleep or eating habits. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, adds skills for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can help when emotions feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try techniques, and adjust methods based on what fits best. This is a collaborative process aimed at finding tools that feel useful in day-to-day life.
Online sessions can be done by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill teaching. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or a check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for ongoing coaching, brief check-ins, or when shorter, flexible contact is needed. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep building skills between sessions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Eating disorders
- Sleeping disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dissociation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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