Dr. Mary Torok
Supportive family-focused counseling and coaching
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Dr. Mary Torok helps parents and families facing everyday struggles and big transitions. She offers straightforward support for stress, anxiety, parenting challenges, family conflict, grief, and mood concerns.
Her tone is practical and calm, aimed at people who need clear steps they can try right away. She uses common therapies that focus on skills and understanding. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people change thoughts and habits that keep problems going.
Background and approach
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) teaches how to accept hard feelings while choosing actions that match values. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) supports improving family and relationship bonds. Mary is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, practicing in Florida with 11 years of experience.
She has worked in clinical, classroom, residential, outpatient, and in-home settings and via remote sessions. That background shapes a practical, flexible way of working that fits busy family life. Sessions usually include talking through a problem, learning small skills, and setting simple goals to try between meetings.
She also offers coaching-style guidance when families need focused direction on communication or routines. The approach mixes direct suggestions with time to reflect and practice new ways of relating. Parents who want a clear plan and steady support will find her style helpful.
She aims to teach tools families can use right away to reduce conflict, manage emotions, and move toward healthier patterns.
Therapeutic approaches for online family support
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them. It focuses on taking small actions that match what matters most, which can help when life changes or parenting feels overwhelming.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches concrete tools to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, sleep problems, low mood, and day-to-day stress.
Emotionally-Focused Therapy, EFT, looks at how family members connect. It helps improve communication and rebuild trust when relationships are strained or conflict keeps repeating.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the family about goals, try out methods that fit their needs, and adjust the plan together. This makes it easier to pick techniques that feel useful for parenting or family situations.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls let families work through sensitive topics face to face from home. Phone sessions can fit around busy schedules, and live chat or text messaging provide quick check-ins and ongoing support between meetings. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care while managing family routines and commitments.
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
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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