Individual Counseling

In individual therapy, Mary and the client work together to understand and improve the client's quality of life. Counseling and therapy for individuals can help you:

• Explore current concerns and client problems and issues

• Explore how you cope with problems

• Review what has helped or hurt in the past

• Develop more effective coping strategies

• Get in touch with your inner strength

• Discover what makes you comfortable, successful, and happy

• Use what you learn to develop practical strategies that can help in daily life

Family Counseling

In the family therapy, Mary includes all or most of the members of the family in the therapy process. Because the family has an influence on every member, it can be helpful to focus on the family as a unit instead of just on one individual.

Family therapy and counseling can help families:

• Work together as a unit to communicate feelings and ideas more effectively

• Enjoy their time together more: vacations, outings, holidays

• Develop effective family meetings

• Understand that individual differences can also be seen as family strength

Couple and Marriage Counseling

In marriage counseling and couple therapy, Mary helps the couple rebuild a sense of hope as they do the hard work of dealing with relationship problems and issues more effectively.

Counseling and therapy for couples can help partners:

• Make some commitment to try and improve the relationship

• Deal with past hurt

• Learn communication skills

• Accept one another without being judgmental

• Reconnect with each other on multiple levels

• Improve how they relate to each other

• Deal with money problems

• Build intimacy

• Deal with difficult personality traits and behavior

• Relate assertively without being critical

• Parent more effectively

• Negotiate household tasks

• Accept one another's extended family