About Mary
Dr. Mary Ann Hensley uses practical, talk-based approaches to help people feel steadier and more able to handle life’s challenges. She brings 23 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor and a licensed professional counselor.
Her style is warm and straightforward, focused on skills you can use between sessions. She works with stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma-related concerns. She also helps with anger, low self-esteem, parenting strain, grief, and challenges linked to ADHD.
Background and approach
Her practice includes support for LGBT issues, relationship and family concerns, and young adult struggles. Her sessions combine acceptance and commitment techniques with cognitive behavioral tools. Those methods help people notice unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes.
She also uses a client-centered stance to listen closely and shape work around each person’s values and goals. Mary Ann has worked across many settings and with diverse backgrounds. She has supported people facing domestic violence, immigration stress, disaster-related trauma, and multicultural concerns.
She draws on this experience to offer practical coping strategies and clear steps forward. In session, she focuses on building everyday tools for coping, managing panic, and improving relationships. She encourages small experiments and steady practice.
The aim is clearer thinking, calmer reactions, and routines that help life feel more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without letting those experiences control choices. It focuses on clarifying what matters to you and taking small steps toward those values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage panic, and change unhelpful routines.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before. Together they decide which methods to try first and adjust the plan as progress is made, keeping things collaborative and realistic.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different needs. Video is useful when face-to-face interaction helps the work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat or text-based messaging can fit brief check-ins, step-by-step exercises, or days when writing feels easier than speaking. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, school, or caregiving schedules while using the approaches described above.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Anger management
Also works with
- ADHD
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Domestic violence
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, Florida
- Languages
- English