- Strengths focused
- Values based work
- Practical tools
About Mary
Mary Clifford is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Arizona who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, and life transitions. She emphasizes practical support and respects each person's experience. Mary frames clients as experts in their own story and focuses on strengths that can be built on in therapy.
She draws on techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing tools are used to build motivation and calm racing thoughts. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Mary has eight years of professional experience working with concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and addictions. She also addresses relationship and family stress, sleep difficulties, grief, and parenting strain. Additional focus areas include first responder issues, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life counseling, intellectual disability, OCD and related obsessions, paranoia, and personality disorders.
In sessions she aims to create a space for people to explore what matters to them and to practice small, useful changes. Conversations often include short exercises, goal setting, and tools to manage intense emotions. Mary encourages steady progress and sees therapy as a step-by-step process.
She works in English and practices in Arizona. To get started, people follow the site’s matching process and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.
She draws on techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice thoughts and choose actions that match their values. Mindfulness practices and motivational interviewing tools are used to build motivation and calm racing thoughts. Sessions are collaborative and paced to each person's needs.
Mary has eight years of professional experience working with concerns such as depression, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and addictions. She also addresses relationship and family stress, sleep difficulties, grief, and parenting strain. Additional focus areas include first responder issues, gender dysphoria, hospice and end-of-life counseling, intellectual disability, OCD and related obsessions, paranoia, and personality disorders.
In sessions she aims to create a space for people to explore what matters to them and to practice small, useful changes. Conversations often include short exercises, goal setting, and tools to manage intense emotions. Mary encourages steady progress and sees therapy as a step-by-step process.
She works in English and practices in Arizona. To get started, people follow the site’s matching process and schedule sessions according to the therapist’s availability.