About Mary
Mary Archibald is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who helps people cope with stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and parenting challenges. She focuses on everyday struggles like low self-esteem, anger, postpartum depression, and the strain of caregiving and compassion fatigue. Her work also covers relationship concerns, life changes, and issues related to prejudice and multicultural stressors.
She draws on more than 30 years of experience in mental health and a doctoral degree in psychology.
Background and approach
Sessions are straightforward and practical. She listens closely, helps clients name what matters, and offers simple tools to manage symptoms day to day. Mary uses evidence-informed methods such as cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness practices, acceptance and commitment ideas, motivational interviewing, and EMDR when appropriate.
She invites people to try techniques in session and practice new skills between meetings. Progress is measured in small, usable steps rather than big promises. Her style is faith-informed and collaborative.
She encourages clients who wish to include their beliefs in the work and respects others who prefer a different focus. The aim is clearer thinking, steadier moods, and more effective coping. Mary works with individuals experiencing trauma, veterans and armed forces related issues, multicultural concerns, and those facing postpartum or parenting stress.
She offers multiple ways to meet, including video, phone, chat, and text messaging to fit different schedules and needs.
How Mary’s Approaches Work Online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters to them and take actions that match those values, even when emotions are difficult. It can help with anxiety, low mood, and feeling stuck. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches specific skills to change unhelpful patterns; it’s useful for anxiety, depression, and stress. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a trauma-focused method that helps process upsetting memories and reduce their emotional impact when trauma is a central issue.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful. That conversation guides whether sessions emphasize ACT, CBT techniques, EMDR, mindfulness, or a mix of strategies in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls are good for deeper conversations and practicing skills together. Phone sessions can fit a lunch break or when bandwidth is limited. Chat and text-based messaging can work for brief check-ins, ongoing support between sessions, or when typing feels easier than talking. These options let people fit therapy into busy lives and keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
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- Experience
- 31 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English