Mary Foy
Support for parents navigating stress and transitions
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed in
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Foy is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in Iowa who focuses on a wide range of concerns parents often face. She helps with stress and anxiety, relationship and intimacy issues, addictions, grief, parenting challenges, sleep and eating concerns, and self-esteem.
Mary brings 13 years of clinical experience to her work and emphasizes practical support for people feeling stuck or overwhelmed. She believes each person knows their story best and brings that knowledge into sessions.
Background and approach
Her style is straightforward and collaborative. She listens first, then suggests tools and steps that clients can try between meetings. Mary uses clear, evidence-informed methods such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and habits, and Trauma-Focused Therapy when past hurts interfere with daily life.
She also draws on Existential Therapy to help people find meaning during big life changes. These methods are adapted to the issue at hand rather than applied the same way to everyone. Sessions focus on concrete skills - coping strategies, communication practice, and plans for small changes at home.
Conversations are steady and goal-oriented, with space to talk about emotions and what matters most. Mary supports people through practical problem solving and emotional processing. She offers services in English and accepts international clients.
Sessions are provided through online formats that fit busy schedules, allowing parents and caregivers to access care without extra travel time.
Approaches and online options for practical change
Mary uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replace them with more helpful patterns. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, sleep and eating problems, and many day-to-day stressors. Trauma-Focused Therapy is applied when past traumatic experiences affect current functioning; it focuses on processing those events and reducing their hold on present life. Existential Therapy helps people facing big life questions or transitions to clarify values and find meaning during change.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary will talk with each person about their goals, symptoms, and what feels comfortable. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made. The emphasis is on practical steps and checking in about what works.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules. These formats let parents and caregivers connect from home or other convenient places, reduce travel time, and offer different ways to communicate when speaking live is difficult. The range of options supports flexible, ongoing work toward manageable goals.
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.
Existential Therapy
Takes the larger questions seriously: meaning, choice, mortality, responsibility. Suited to periods when the difficulty is less a symptom than a sense that something has to change.
Trauma-Focused Therapy
Work that takes difficult past experience into account and moves at a pace you set, with attention to feeling steady before anything else. Being in your own space can make that easier for some people.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Fertility issues
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Money and financial issues
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 13 years
- Licensed
- Iowa
- Languages
- English
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