Mary Smith
Insightful social worker focused on practical change
LMSW Michigan
- Experience
- 23 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Family
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English
About Mary
Mary Smith is a licensed social worker in Michigan with 23 years of clinical experience helping people navigate anxiety, depression, stress, substance-related concerns, and complex life transitions.
Background and approach
She centers her work on the individual, offering a compassionate, person-focused approach that helps clients clarify values, improve communication, and build practical coping skills. Her background supports work with mood disorders, relationship difficulties, trauma and grief, and a wide range of behavioral and adjustment challenges.
Her practice integrates evidence-informed methods to tailor support to each person’s needs, drawing on techniques that promote awareness, skill building, and motivation for change. Mary works with clients on issues ranging from sleep and parenting concerns to intimacy, career decisions, and compassion fatigue.
She also brings experience addressing additional focus areas such as attachment difficulties, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and body image concerns. Clients can expect a collaborative, respectful stance that values personal strengths and real-world solutions.
With a mix of practical strategies and reflective exploration, Mary aims to help people increase resilience, manage symptoms, and move toward greater clarity and balance in everyday life.
Applying Practical Approaches to Online Therapy
Mary integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy into her online work. CBT involves identifying and testing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and teaching concrete skills to manage symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and sleep difficulties. Client-centered work prioritizes the individuals experience, offering empathic listening and support to help clients explore values, relationships, and self-understanding.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic journey, and Mary treats that as a collaborative process. She will work with clients to assess goals, preferences, and the presenting concerns, and then adapt techniques from CBT, mindfulness, or other methods to match what is most helpful for each person.
Online therapy with Mary is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to maximize flexibility. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity during life transitions, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable for the client.
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Areas of expertise
Primary focus
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Therapeutic approaches
Experience
23+ years
Licensed
Michigan
Languages
English