Mary Beth Ritchie , LCSW

Mary Beth Ritchie is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience. She guides people through stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, grief, and other life changes. Mary Beth takes a warm, straightforward approach and aims to make the work feel doable.

She keeps sessions focused on practical change. Conversations often include skills to manage anxiety, ways to improve communication, and tools to cope with loss or trauma. Her style is nonjudgmental and genuine, with room for humor when it helps.

Mary Beth adapts methods to fit each person. She combines elements from acceptance and commitment work, cognitive behavioral approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and client-centered care depending on the issue. The methods are chosen to match goals rather than force a single model.

She offers both live sessions and substantial asynchronous messaging. Many clients find messaging useful because it gives time to reflect between contacts and respond when it fits their schedule. Phone and video options are also available for more direct conversation.

Based in Oklahoma, Mary Beth holds an LCSW and brings twenty years of practice to the work. She supports people dealing with eating and sleeping concerns, parenting stress, compassion fatigue, ADHD, aging and caregiver issues, body image, and a broad range of relationship and mood concerns. If the tone here feels like a fit, she asks prospective clients to complete a short matching questionnaire to get started.

Therapeutic approaches and online care

Mary Beth often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people notice difficult thoughts and choose actions that match their values. ACT is helpful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thinking and test new behaviors that reduce symptoms and improve daily functioning. CBT is often used for mood, worry, sleep, and some eating concerns.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary Beth will discuss goals, preferences, and how you respond to different methods, then together you will choose what feels most useful. That collaborative process helps tailor sessions so they address the concerns that matter to you.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video and phone are useful for focused conversations and skills practice, while live chat offers real-time brief check-ins. Asynchronous messaging lets both people reflect and respond on their own time, which can fit busy schedules, reduce the need for travel, and allow ongoing processing between sessions.