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Online therapist

Mary Sanders

Trusted guide for family and relationship struggles

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Credentials
LCSW, CSW
Experience
36 years
Licensed in
Georgia, Utah
Languages
English
Format
Online sessions

About Mary

Mary Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker who aims to help parents and partners who feel overwhelmed. She writes plainly and listens closely. She focuses on practical steps to reduce stress, improve communication, and restore connection in relationships and family life.

Mary brings 36 years of hands-on practice to sessions. She emphasizes a relational way of working - she pays attention to how people relate to each other and to themselves.

Background and approach

Her style is collaborative: she helps clients identify strengths, notice obstacles, and practice healthier ways of coping and talking. Sessions often include simple communication skills and strategies for managing strong emotions. She may offer mindfulness exercises and motivational techniques to support change.

When addiction, grief, or trauma are present, she pulls from approaches tailored to those issues. Mary has a long background supporting couples and families, and she applies that focus when parents need help with parenting, blended family concerns, or relationship strain. She also addresses stress, anxiety, depression, eating and sleeping challenges, and caregiver burden.

Her work is grounded in personal experience and steady professional commitment. She expects clients to engage actively and to use time in therapy with purpose. Mary meets each person where they are and works to strengthen the parts of life and family that matter most.

Therapeutic approaches and online care for families

Mary often uses Client-Centered Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy to guide her work. Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people name what matters to them; it can help with stress, self-esteem, and making choices. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) looks at patterns in relationships and helps partners and family members shift how they respond to each other, which is useful for rebuilding trust and connection.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. She will talk with clients about goals and preferences and then work together to try strategies that fit. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions for families, couples, or individuals coping with change, grief, addiction, or caregiver stress.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Mary provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. These options let parents and partners connect from home, check in between appointments, and keep progress moving forward when life gets hectic.

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.

Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)

Attends to the emotions underneath a recurring argument or distance, and to the attachment needs driving them. Often used where a relationship keeps returning to the same painful loop.

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.

Frequently asked questions

What kinds of concerns does she address?
She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family problems, addictions, trauma, grief, parenting, intimacy issues, eating and sleeping problems, and related challenges.
What is her therapy style like?
Her approach is relational and client-centered. She works collaboratively to identify strengths, improve communication, and teach practical coping skills.
What is her professional background?
She has 36 years of clinical experience and a long history of working with families and couples across diverse concerns.
What credentials and location are listed?
She holds LCSW and CSW credentials: GA LCSW CSW002262 and UT LCSW 12960316-3501, and practices from Georgia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How is payment handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and then scheduling according to therapist availability.

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Experience
36 years
Licensed
Georgia, Utah
Languages
English

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