Mary Cassidy
Practical support for stress and family challenges
- Credentials
- LMFT
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed in
- California
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Cassidy is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 20 years of clinical experience. She practices in California and works in English. Mary helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship and intimacy concerns, or big life changes.
She focuses on practical steps people can use right away to feel steadier and more capable. Her approach is warm and straightforward. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to the client and build small, doable changes.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based methods tailored to each situation and balances skills practice with open conversation. Mary has spent two decades supporting people through grief, trauma and abuse, parenting challenges, career shifts, and family problems. She also addresses focused concerns such as attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and fertility-related worries.
That breadth comes from years of seeing varied life situations and learning what actually helps. In therapy with Mary, clients can expect a mix of listening, skill building, and reflective work. She teaches tools for managing strong emotions, improving communication, and making decisions that fit personal values.
The pace is set by the client and guided by clear goals. Mary’s license is CA LMFT 42566, indicating licensure in California. For people who prefer remote options, she offers video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging.
International clients are accepted and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and understanding each person’s experience. It creates space for a client to describe worries and goals while the therapist follows their lead to build insight and confidence. This approach helps when someone needs acceptance and clarity about what matters most.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviors. It teaches concrete tools to reduce anxiety, manage stress, and improve communication. Sessions often include practice exercises to use between meetings.
Mindfulness therapy brings attention to present-moment experience and gentle awareness of difficult emotions. It pairs well with other approaches to reduce reactivity and strengthen coping skills for grief, trauma responses, and everyday stress.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss options, try techniques in session, and adjust based on the client’s needs, goals, and preferences. The work is guided together so methods fit the person rather than the other way around.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Mary provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can connect from home or while traveling. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules, keep continuity during life transitions, and practice skills in real time between sessions.
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.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English
Next step
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