Mary Meehan , LPC

Mary Meehan is a licensed professional counselor with 27 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and self-esteem struggles. She focuses on practical ways to cope with life changes, parenting pressures, and relationship concerns. Mary offers a calm, respectful presence where people can be heard and begin to feel steadier.

She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. Conversations often focus on immediate skills for calming anxiety, steps to handle anger, and small changes that ease daily pressure. Mary also helps people untangle complicated feelings after loss or trauma and supports those navigating mood concerns like depression and bipolar experiences.

Her work draws on client-centered methods that follow the person’s lead, and cognitive-behavioral tools that break problems into manageable parts. She also uses dialectical behavior strategies to teach emotional regulation and narrative techniques to reframe painful stories. These approaches are mixed to fit each person’s needs, not applied as fixed rules.

Mary has spent much of her career listening to people facing family and parenting stress, adoption and foster care questions, caregiver burden, chronic illness, and career transitions. She pays careful attention to how past attachment wounds shape current relationships and to patterns such as codependency or avoidance.

Sessions are offered in English and Mary works with clients in Missouri and internationally. She aims to help people build practical coping plans, clearer communication, and stronger self-compassion over time.

Approaches that translate well to online care

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following the person's lead to build trust and understanding; it helps people feel heard and develop their own solutions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions, then teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns and reduce anxiety or depressive symptoms. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds skills for managing strong emotions, improving distress tolerance, and handling conflict in relationships.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. That means trying tools, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan over time rather than sticking to a single method.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let people use visual cues and deeper conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a camera isn’t convenient. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework support, or when someone needs short, timely contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around parenting schedules, work, or travel while using the same therapeutic approaches as in-person work.