Mary Allen, LCSW
Experienced LCSW focusing on life stories
Details
| Name | Mary Allen |
|---|---|
| Credentials | LCSW |
| Based in | Wisconsin |
| Licensed in | California, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Nevada |
| Session format | Online |
| Languages | English |
| Years in practice | 31 |
About Mary
Mary Allen is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with 31 years of experience. She practices in Wisconsin and focuses on helping people cope with anxiety, stress, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and challenges tied to parenting and caregiving. Mary uses Narrative-informed ideas to help people make sense of their stories.
She also draws on attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to focus on relationships and personal meaning. Sessions are practical and conversational.
Background and approach
Mary aims to make goals clear and realistic. Her background includes long experience supporting people through trauma and abuse, LGBT concerns, chronic illness and caregiver stress, and career or life transitions. She also works with people facing adoption and foster care questions, abandonment issues, and commitment or control struggles.
Her work often addresses how past relationships shape present behavior and feelings. Therapy with Mary is collaborative. Clients set the goals and she helps map steps to reach them.
Sessions blend listening with tools such as cognitive-behavioral strategies, emotion-focused work, and mindfulness when those fit the goals. Mary offers several session formats to fit different schedules, including video calls, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. She works in English and practices under the LCSW credential.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire and scheduled session help connect a person to her practice.
What this therapist works with
Her listing names Stress, Anxiety, Relationship issues, Family conflicts among the things Mary works with, alongside the areas below.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Self esteem
- Depression
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Coping with life changes
- Coaching
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Money and financial issues
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches listed
- Narrative Therapy: Named in her listing among her approaches.
- Attachment-Based Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
- Client-Centered Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT): Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT): Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
- Mindfulness Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
- Solution-Focused Therapy: Listed by Mary among the ways she works.
- Training stated: This directory copies the approaches a therapist names and does not check training records. Ask Mary directly how much of the work is narrative and what a session usually looks like.
Narrative Therapy in this listing
Narrative Therapy appears in this therapist's own list of approaches. That tells you it is part of how she works. It does not tell you how much of a session it shapes, and this directory does not check or rate training.
If a narrative approach is what you are looking for, it is worth asking Mary directly how she uses it and what a session usually looks like.
Online session options
How Narrative and Attachment Ideas Guide Online Work
Mary combines Narrative Therapy with attachment-based and client-centered ways of working. Narrative Therapy helps people separate themselves from a problem by rethinking the story they tell about their life. It can be useful for issues like identity struggles, grief, and feelings of emptiness.Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current reactions and connection patterns. That approach often helps with intimacy issues, communication problems, and coping when stress triggers old hurts. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and meeting the person where they are, which supports trust and clear goal-setting.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary treats approach selection as a collaborative process. She helps clients decide what fits their goals and adjusts methods as needs change.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video works well for in-depth conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates and ongoing contact between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
Common questions about this listing
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, relationship or intimacy concerns, parenting strain, and caregiving stress among other issues.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is direct, warm, and interactive. Sessions are goal-focused and meant to be practical and conversational.
What experience does she bring?
She has 31 years of clinical experience working with a wide range of concerns including ADHD, trauma, chronic illness, and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She practices in Wisconsin and holds the LCSW credential. Location for services is listed as Wisconsin.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not accepted.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be held by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs.
How does pricing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions are delivered through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
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