Mary Pollock
Calm, experienced guidance for families and individuals
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed in
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Mary Pollock is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 42 years in human services. She focuses on helping people and families who face addiction, mood challenges, and big life changes. She emphasizes the client’s own perspective to decide what will help most in therapy.
Sessions aim to be practical and straightforward, with attention to everyday problems and decisions. Over her career she has worked across inpatient and outpatient settings for substance use and mental health care.
Background and approach
That includes drug and alcohol treatment, partial hospitalization programs, and outpatient counseling. She has also trained and mentored new counselors and worked with people of many ages and backgrounds. Her style is person-centered, which means she starts by listening to how each person sees their situation.
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing to help people change behaviors and thought patterns. These approaches are used to address anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with life transitions. Mary also brings experience with family difficulties and relationship conflict.
She helps with communication issues, family of origin concerns, divorce and separation, and caregiver stress. The work often focuses on practical steps to reduce conflict and improve daily functioning. She offers sessions in English and practices in Pennsylvania as an LPC, license number PA LPC PC002806.
The overall aim is to support people in finding workable answers and clearer next steps for themselves and their families.
Approaches that guide online work
Mary often uses Client-Centered Therapy to begin, which centers on listening and responding to each person’s experience. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to sort out feelings and priorities. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches concrete skills to manage anxiety, depression, and stress.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what approaches feel most useful. Together they will try methods that fit the person’s situation and adjust as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. These formats make it easier to connect from home, manage appointments around caregiving or work, and continue care during life changes. The range of options lets people pick what works best for their schedule and comfort level while keeping therapy focused on practical steps and steady support.
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.
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.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 42 years
- Licensed
- Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English
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