About Mary
Mary Clisbee is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with 20 years of experience helping adults and teens who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, burnout, and major life changes. She creates a calm, practical space where people can talk through pressing concerns and learn skills to feel steadier. Her work is aimed at building resilience and improving everyday coping.
Mary keeps her approach warm and down-to-earth. Sessions focus on identifying patterns that increase distress and trying small, manageable changes.
How Mary works
She offers practical strategies for handling difficult feelings, navigating grief, and responding to trauma-related symptoms. Her background includes extensive international practice in insecure and volatile settings. That experience informs how she thinks about chronic stress, compassion fatigue, and the long-term effects of exposure to unstable environments.
She draws on this perspective when helping people process intense experiences. People often come for help with isolation, life purpose, midlife shifts, or health-related challenges such as chronic pain and illness. Mary also addresses concerns tied to immigration, multicultural issues, and coping after cancer or serious medical events.
Sessions are offered in English and take place from her Massachusetts practice. She emphasizes collaboration, so clients and she set goals together and track progress over time.
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Avoidant personality
- Cancer
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Emptiness
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 20 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Massachusetts |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches guide online care
Mary uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and improved coping. One common approach is trauma-informed work, which helps people process distressing experiences and reduce their impact on daily life through steady, paced strategies. Another emphasis is building resilience and stress-management skills, which teaches concrete ways to handle anxiety, burnout, and ongoing pressure.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively with each person to identify which techniques match their goals, needs, and preferences. This means trying options, reviewing what helps, and adjusting the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, such as arranging appointments around work or caregiving commitments. It also allows for shorter check-ins when a full session is not needed, and makes it simpler to continue care if travel or relocation occurs. The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm which formats are offered before booking to ensure they meet scheduling needs.
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