Mary Jo Ayllon, LPC, LCMHC

Mary Jo Ayllon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of experience. She practices in North Carolina and brings a practical, faith-aware approach to therapy. She emphasizes comfort, trust, and hope while helping people move toward their goals.

Mary Jo focuses on common life stresses like anxiety, depression, grief, and anger. She also helps with relationship and family concerns, parenting struggles, trauma and abuse, OCD and ADHD, and work or career stress. Additional topics she addresses include body image, attachment and abandonment issues, postpartum challenges, multicultural concerns, and workplace difficulties.

Her style is goal oriented but flexible. She meets people where they are and moves at a pace that fits each person. Sessions often include clear, practical steps and skills people can use between meetings to manage symptoms and make steady progress.

Mary Jo integrates multiple therapeutic approaches to match the client's needs. She draws on cognitive behavioral methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness to increase moment-to-moment awareness, and attachment-based ideas to look at relational patterns. When requested, she can include a Biblically integrative perspective that connects faith and therapy for those who want it.

She balances clinical work with life as a parent and pastor's spouse, which informs her understanding of spiritual concerns and church-related struggles. To begin, readers are encouraged to use the Start Therapy process and complete the matching questionnaire to schedule sessions according to her availability.

Approaches that guide online work

Mary Jo often draws from cognitive behavioral therapy, which helps people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depression. She uses concrete exercises and homework to build new skills and create visible progress.

She also uses attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This work can help people understand repeated relationship difficulties and try different ways of relating. Mindfulness techniques are another part of her practice, teaching simple attention and breathing practices to reduce stress and increase emotional balance.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will review concerns, goals, and preferences with each person and suggest methods that fit. That decision is adjusted over time based on what helps most.

Confirm the current session options before booking, as formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, avoid travel time, and check in during short breaks. It can also allow a quieter phone check-in when video is not convenient. Mary Jo will work with each person to arrange sessions that fit their schedule and needs.