About Mary
Mary Boyle is a licensed mental health counselor with thirty years of clinical experience. She offers calm, straightforward care for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addiction, relationship problems, and self-esteem concerns. She also supports those facing life changes, career questions, caregiving strain, and body image or eating issues.
Mary listens first. She asks about current symptoms and what has helped so far. She will also ask about your living situation and family of origin to better understand your patterns and needs.
Background and approach
Sessions aim to be practical and focused on what will help you now. Her background includes work in community mental health and independent practice, where she has helped people with serious and persistent mental illness as well as mood and personality concerns. That varied experience informs a flexible, person-focused approach rather than a single method.
Mary draws from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, psychodynamic ideas, existential thinking, and relationship-focused methods when useful. She combines these to match what each person needs instead of following one fixed plan. Sessions can address a wide range of topics such as coping with chronic illness, codependency, commitment and control issues, blended family stress, and compassion fatigue.
The goal is to find realistic steps that fit daily life and build on what already works for you. She welcomes conversations about goals and practical next steps and will collaborate with each person to create a plan. If a different level of care seems needed, she will recommend other options and help you consider next steps.
Practical therapy approaches for online care
Client-centered therapy puts the person and their experience at the center of sessions. It relies on listening, empathy, and reflecting back what matters to the client so they can make clearer choices. Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing concrete strategies to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping skills.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will talk with you about your goals, habits, and what has helped or not helped before. Together you will try approaches and adjust methods based on what fits your needs and preferences, making decisions as a team rather than following a fixed plan.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video lets you see visual cues and do deeper conversations. Phone can be a good option when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging work for shorter check-ins, written reflection, or when you need to fit therapy into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep appointments, use therapy between commitments, and try different formats to see what helps most.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Pennsylvania
- Languages
- English