- Stress and anxiety
- Trauma and grief
- Communication help
About Mary
Mary Francis is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Virginia with eight years of experience. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and ADHD. She also addresses issues connected to communication, family dynamics, workplace stress, and feelings of guilt and shame.
Mary listens for the specific ways guilt and shame show up in daily life. She helps people name what they feel and talk through how those feelings affect relationships and decision making. Sessions use clear, practical steps rather than jargon-heavy explanations.
Her background includes supporting people from different cultural and faith backgrounds. That means she will discuss how personal beliefs or cultural expectations shape doubt, regret, and self-judgment. She offers space to examine those influences and how they relate to current struggles.
In the room she focuses on building small, manageable skills. That can mean practicing new ways to communicate, testing kinder self-talk, or learning ways to handle impulsive urges. Work with grief and trauma often moves at a pace set by the client, with attention to safety and pacing.
Mary describes therapy as a collaborative process. She will help set goals, track progress, and adjust methods when something is not helping. To begin, she asks people to share what matters most to them and what feels hardest right now.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear skills and real-life practice. One common strand is skills-based work for anxiety and stress that teaches breathing, grounding, and short behavioral experiments to test unhelpful beliefs. Those techniques can help when worry or overwhelm gets in the way of daily tasks.She also uses trauma-informed methods that emphasize pacing and safety. That approach breaks difficult memories into manageable parts and provides ways to reduce intense physical reactions. For grief and loss the focus is on making meaning and finding steady ways to remember while carrying on with life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. She collaborates with each person to decide which techniques fit their goals, preferences, and life situation. If one method isn’t helping, she adjusts the plan together with the client.
Confirm the available session formats before booking because the biography does not list specific options. In general, online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when that suits the schedule. Licensed professionals can use different session styles to match needs, and she will discuss practical arrangements when you begin.
Areas of expertise
Primary focus
Additional focus areas
Experience
8+ years
Listed in
Virginia
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of issues does she address?
She works with stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, depression, and ADHD, plus related concerns like communication problems, forgiveness, and guilt and shame.
How does she approach guilt and shame?
She helps people identify how guilt or shame shows up and looks at practical ways to shift unhelpful patterns. Work often includes talking through specific situations and practicing different responses.
What is her clinical experience?
She has eight years of clinical experience working with adults on mood, trauma, grief, and attention-related concerns.
What are her credentials and location?
She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) licensed in Virginia and practices there.
Does she offer sessions in other languages or internationally?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not currently accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Please confirm current session options before booking, as the biography does not specify formats.
How are fees handled?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.