Works with
How Mary works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LPC
- Licensed in
- Texas
- Years in practice
- 12
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Mary
Mary Spurlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas with twelve years of experience. She focuses on practical tools to help people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. Mary aims to make the first step feel doable and calm.
She keeps language simple and action-oriented in sessions. Her approach blends cognitive behavioral techniques with trauma-focused work and EMDR to address distressing memories and patterns.
Background and approach
She helps clients identify unhelpful thoughts, practice coping skills, and gradually face difficult emotions. Sessions are framed around small, achievable changes that fit day-to-day life. Mary often supports people dealing with compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, first responder issues, and health-related challenges such as cancer or aging concerns.
She also addresses themes like abandonment, guilt and shame, post-traumatic stress, and sexual assault and abuse. Her work includes attention to women’s issues and self-esteem struggles. In the room she emphasizes collaboration and respect for each person’s knowledge of their own life.
Therapy focuses on learning new skills, processing painful experiences, and testing practical ways to reduce distress. Progress is discussed in concrete terms so people can see what has changed. Sessions are offered in English and can be conducted by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging.
Mary uses straightforward steps to help people get started and to match therapy to the problems they bring.
What Mary works with
Everything Mary lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Mary's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Post-traumatic stress
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Women's issues
Approaches Mary lists
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Mary integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy, and EMDR into online sessions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thoughts and replace them with more useful thinking and behaviors, which can reduce stress and anger. Trauma-Focused Therapy concentrates on processing traumatic experiences and building safety and coping skills to manage triggers and painful memories. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is used to lessen the emotional charge of traumatic memories by guiding attention while recalling those events, which can ease symptoms tied to trauma.Choosing the right approach is a team effort. Mary works together with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and comfort level. She checks in regularly and adjusts plans based on how someone responds, so therapy stays practical and relevant.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow for face-to-face interaction and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep progress going between sessions. These options aim to make consistent care easier to fit into everyday life.
Questions people ask about Mary
What concerns does Mary commonly address?
She helps people manage stress, anxiety, anger, grief, depression, relationship and intimacy-related issues, and self-esteem challenges. Additional focuses include compassion fatigue, caregiver and first responder stress, cancer and aging related concerns, post-traumatic stress, and sexual assault and abuse.
What is Mary’s therapeutic style like?
Mary uses a straightforward, collaborative approach that emphasizes practical skills and small changes. She blends cognitive behavioral work with trauma-focused methods and EMDR to address difficult memories and current coping.
How much experience does she have?
She has twelve years of professional experience helping people with a range of concerns including trauma, grief, and stress-related issues.
What credential does Mary hold and where is she located?
Mary is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Texas and practices from that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be scheduled as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs and schedules.
How are fees and billing handled?
Costs vary with location and therapist availability; therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with Mary?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button and completing a short matching questionnaire. After that you can schedule sessions based on therapist availability.