Mary Sanders , LCSW, CSW

Mary Sanders is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience. She helps people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, relationship strain, grief, trauma, and other concerns common to women. She uses a straightforward, relational style that focuses on practical steps and honest conversation.

Mary takes a person-centered approach and pays attention to strengths and barriers together with each client. Sessions often include learning clearer communication, building coping skills, and practicing mindfulness to calm intense emotions. She draws on experience supporting people through parenting challenges, blended family issues, caregiving strain, and major life changes.

Her background includes long experience in addiction-related and family-related work. Mary holds LCSW and CSW credentials and has worked in Georgia for much of her career. She describes therapy as a collaborative process and aims to help clients identify realistic goals and ways to reach them.

Mary acknowledges a spiritual thread in her approach and will meet clients where they are in their beliefs. She emphasizes using time well in therapy and will offer direct feedback and gentle challenges when helpful. Mary also names self-awareness as an important part of change and models ongoing self-reflection in her work.

Her practice supports people coping with eating and sleep issues, intimacy and self-esteem concerns, bipolar and mood challenges, compassion fatigue, and codependency. She combines relational methods with motivational interviewing and trauma-informed ideas to help people move toward clearer choices.

Relational approaches and online care

Mary often uses Client-Centered Therapy to prioritize each person's experience and goals. This approach focuses on listening, reflecting feelings, and helping people discover their own solutions, which can help with anxiety, low self-esteem, and coping with life changes.

She also draws on Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) ideas to help people understand and reshape emotional responses in close relationships. EFT-style work helps when intimacy, communication, or attachment patterns are getting in the way of connection.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with clients to decide which methods fit their needs and preferences. She discusses goals, tries techniques, and adjusts plans together so the therapy makes sense for each person.

Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video is useful for fuller conversation and nonverbal cues, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging can suit shorter check-ins or people who prefer writing, and a mix of formats can fit busy schedules. These options make it easier to stay consistent with therapy and to use sessions when life allows.