Mary Dellinger
Calm, practical support for parenting challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Dellinger is a licensed professional counselor with ten years of clinical experience. She combines practical tools with thoughtful listening to help people manage stress, anxiety, mood challenges, and life transitions. Mary keeps sessions straightforward and focused so parents and adults can make steady progress without extra jargon.
Her work blends several therapy styles to match each person's needs. She uses client-centered techniques to follow what matters most to the individual.
Background and approach
Cognitive behavioral strategies are used to identify and change unhelpful patterns. Mindfulness practices help with attention and emotional regulation. Mary has supported people facing a wide range of concerns.
These include depression, bipolar symptoms, ADHD, addictions, grief, trauma, relationship and intimacy issues, and parenting stress. Her background also covers attachment and abandonment issues, chronic illness and pain, body image, and communication problems. Sessions focus on clear goals and practical next steps.
Mary encourages small experiments between meetings so people can test what works in real life. She adapts the pace and techniques to match each person’s situation and priorities. Based in South Carolina, Mary holds an LPC credential and draws on a decade of experience to guide therapy.
Her approach aims to help people build coping skills, improve relationships, and find more calm in daily life.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Mary blends client-centered work with cognitive behavioral techniques to keep online sessions focused and useful. Client-centered therapy means she listens closely and follows what matters to the person, which helps build a trusting conversation and clarify goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical exercises to change patterns that cause distress.Mary also uses mindfulness practices to help with attention and stress management. These are short, simple exercises that can be practiced between sessions to improve sleep, reduce anxiety, and support emotional regulation. She will discuss these options and collaborate with each person to decide which approaches fit their needs and preferences.
Online work makes scheduling more flexible and can fit into busy family routines. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation, phone sessions offer a simpler option, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins and ongoing coaching. These formats let people use the approaches above in a way that matches their daily life and goals.
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
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- South Carolina
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point