Mary Katherine Garcia
Resilience-focused therapy with practical tools
LPC Arizona
- Experience
- 9 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Self esteem
- Approaches
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Languages
- English
About Mary
Mary Katherine Garcia is a licensed professional counselor (LPC) who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, low self-esteem, depression, and major life transitions. She also supports clients facing family tensions, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting concerns, and work with attachment, communication, control, and shame-related issues.
Background and approach
Her practice emphasizes practical tools and emotional insight to address mood disorders and post-traumatic stress while fostering self-love and purpose. Garcia combines structured, evidence-informed techniques with a compassionate, collaborative stance.
She often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) alongside trauma-focused methods and parts work to help clients identify unhelpful patterns, build coping skills, and reframe difficult narratives. Sessions balance skill-building with exploration of underlying emotions so clients can make measurable changes while honoring their personal history.
With nine years of clinical experience in Arizona, Garcia aims to create a space where people can take on hard things and discover their own strengths. She approaches each case with curiosity and respect, helping clients move from surviving to engaging with life more intentionally and with greater self-awareness.
Approaches for online healing and skill-building
Mary Katherine Garcia integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Trauma-Focused Therapy into her online work. CBT centers on identifying and modifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms and to build practical coping strategies. Trauma-Focused Therapy addresses the ways traumatic experiences continue to affect daily life and uses structured interventions to process memories and reduce trauma-related distress.Choosing the right approach is collaborative; the therapist will listen to each person's concerns, goals, and preferences and then suggest techniques that fit the presenting issues. Therapy is tailored over time, blending skill-focused work with emotional exploration so clients can both manage symptoms and understand the stories that shape their reactions.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and varied lifestyles. These formats allow for consistent engagement, ongoing skill practice between sessions, and the ability to access care from different locations within Arizona.
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Experience
9+ years
Licensed
Arizona
Languages
English