Mary Griffith
Calm guidance for life’s difficult moments
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed in
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Griffith is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 15 years of experience. She focuses on helping people navigate stress, anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, and life changes. Her work emphasizes practical steps and steady support, not labels or quick fixes.
She offers care in Mississippi and accepts clients internationally, with sessions conducted in English. Her style is calm and direct. She listens first, then helps people find small changes that make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to identify what matters most and build skills to handle hard moments. She blends structured tools with a warm, respectful presence. Mary uses acceptance and commitment ideas alongside cognitive behavioral strategies to help people tackle unhelpful thoughts and take values-based action.
She also draws on client-centered and emotionally-focused methods to strengthen understanding and connection. These tools are chosen to match each person’s needs and goals. Over her career she has worked with a wide range of concerns including grief, trauma and abuse, parenting issues, addictions, ADHD, and chronic health challenges.
She also addresses more specific topics like adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, blended family issues, and intimacy-related concerns. Her approach is practical and aimed at improving daily functioning. People who prefer straightforward guidance and collaborative planning tend to fit well with her style.
She explains techniques in plain language and practices skills together in sessions. For those ready to explore change, she offers a steady, experienced presence and clear next steps.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as part of online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying personal values and taking small steps that align with those values, which helps with chronic stress, anxiety, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior, teaching practical techniques to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and problematic habits.She approaches treatment as a collaborative process. Finding the right approach is part of the work together, and she will discuss options based on each person’s needs, goals, and preferences. Clients help set priorities and try methods that fit their daily life.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments. They also allow people to work on skills in the places where problems actually happen, such as at home or during daily routines.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
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
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Mississippi
- Languages
- English
Next step
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- Stop at any point