Mary Walston, LCMHC

Mary Walston is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in North Carolina with 11 years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, parenting challenges, grief, and other life changes. Mary also helps people dealing with trauma and abuse and with concerns tied to attention and impulsivity.

Mary looks for patterns that come from a person’s family of origin and the roles they learned early in life. She talks with clients about how those patterns affect current relationships, work, and parenting. Sessions aim to identify repeated cycles and make small changes that lead to clearer boundaries and steadier responses.

Her approach blends attachment-based ideas, client-centered methods, and cognitive behavioral tools. In practice that means listening for how relationships shape feelings, then trying straightforward strategies to shift thoughts and behaviors. Mindfulness and emotionally-focused techniques are also used to help clients notice emotions and respond differently.

Mary often works with people managing caregiving stress, blended family issues, anger, forgiveness, and intimacy concerns. She also supports those dealing with abandonment fears, infidelity, or major life transitions such as separation and divorce. Practical communication skills and managing guilt or shame are commonly part of sessions.

People who start with Mary can expect a conversational style that focuses on real-life changes. She encourages clients to set clear goals and to practice concrete skills between meetings. To begin, users follow the site process to match and schedule a first session.

How therapeutic approaches are used in online sessions