Mary Ann Godefroy
Empathetic counselor focused on practical change
- Credentials
- LPCC, LPC
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed in
- California, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Ann Godefroy is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) who focuses on helping adults facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, and life changes. She speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel respectful and straightforward. Her work emphasizes practical steps and clearer thinking so clients can handle daily pressures more easily.
She brings 14 years of clinical experience and uses methods that match each person’s needs. Sessions often include skill practice, direct problem solving, and attention to how past attachment experiences affect current relationships.
Background and approach
Mary Ann also incorporates strategies for mood and coping challenges, including support for grief, trauma, and substance-related concerns. Her style is collaborative and client-centered. That means she listens first, then helps set goals together.
Techniques drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness are used to change unhelpful thoughts and build emotional regulation skills. Mary Ann holds LPCC and LPC credentials and practices in California. She works with adults who want to improve coping, communication, and overall well-being.
Sessions can be scheduled in formats that fit modern life, including video and messaging options. Her approach blends insight with practical tools. Clients can expect straightforward discussion, hands-on skills training, and check-ins on progress.
The aim is to reduce distress and build stronger ways of managing everyday problems.
Therapeutic approaches for online care
Mary Ann uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and behaviors that cause distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and habit or substance concerns because it focuses on clear steps and skill practice.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships affect current patterns with others. This approach helps with communication problems, trust issues, and repeated relationship cycles by connecting present difficulties to past experiences.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. She approaches this collaboratively, asking about goals and adjusting techniques to fit what the client prefers and needs. Together they decide which strategies to try and track progress over time.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule, to practice skills between meetings, and to maintain continuity when life gets hectic. Licensed professionals can adapt exercises and homework to each format so clients can keep moving forward from wherever they are.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- California, New Jersey
- Languages
- English
Next step
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