Mary Walston, LCMHC

Mary Walston is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) with 11 years of experience helping people navigate relationship and life challenges. She offers a warm, interactive style and aims to make sessions feel respectful and straightforward. Her work focuses on practical steps people can take to feel more in control and connected.

Mary helps people address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and trauma. Relationship concerns, intimacy issues, and communication problems are common topics she talks through. She also supports those dealing with parenting strain, blended family questions, and caregiver stress.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, cognitive behavioral techniques, emotionally-focused work, client-centered listening, and moments of mindfulness. Sessions look for recurring patterns, and then try small changes to shift those patterns. Conversations are collaborative and tailored to each person’s situation.

Mary has worked with people facing abandonment, infidelity, divorce and separation, family of origin issues, first responder stress, and compassion fatigue. She also addresses anger, impulsivity, guilt and shame, and career or life transition concerns. Practical problem solving and clearer communication are frequent goals.

People who choose Mary can expect direct conversation and compassionate support. She encourages clients to take gradual steps, try new behaviors between sessions, and reassess what is or isn’t working. The aim is steady progress toward better daily functioning and more satisfying relationships.

How Mary’s approaches translate to online therapy

Attachment-based work focuses on how early bonds shape current relationships. Online sessions can map patterns of closeness and distance, and then practice new ways of connecting during and between meetings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions. In virtual sessions CBT often uses short experiments and homework to change unhelpful thinking and build new habits. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and shift core emotions that drive conflict, which can be done through guided conversations and role exercises during sessions.

Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Mary will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then try techniques that fit their needs. She adapts methods as progress is made, checking in regularly to see what helps and what doesn’t.

Confirm the available session formats before booking so you know how Mary currently offers sessions. Online therapy can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when needed. It also supports practicing new skills in the setting where problems occur, so changes can be tested between appointments.