Our Staff

Orientation and Philosophy

Mary’s therapeutic orientation is humanistic and existential. Mary works with emotion, immediate experience, educational, skills, and with each client’s values and strengths.

“I believe therapy can be both life-enhancing and at times fun. I work in-depth with each person, family, and couple in the change process with the understanding that we are all unique, we change according to our most important values and dreams, and we each change in our own way. I use humor in the context of understanding our often painful and ultimately human concerns, and I find ways to walk in each person’s shoes to deepen my understanding of the thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and feelings that move each of us through our lives and motivate us toward healing.”

Overview of Licenses, Certification, Education

Mary holds a Master’s degree in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Counseling Psychology from Naropa University. This degree focused on diagnosis and treatment of mental health concerns, counseling theory and techniques, and relationship concerns. Training emphasized not just mental and emotional health, but also spiritual health.

Mary received theoretical and clinical training in Humanistic (client-centered, Gestalt), existential, and psychodynamic therapy alongside clinical training in areas of human spirituality and the importance of meaning.

Mary completed a post-graduate certificate program in Marriage and Family Therapy and a second post-graduate certificate in Sex Therapy. She has advanced training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, EMDR, and more. She is a member of the American Counseling Association and the American Association of Marriage and Family Therapists. Mary is committed to ongoing study, advanced and evidence-based practices, and excellence in the field.

Mary's work in counseling has included sexual health, relationship concerns, mental health, drug and alcohol concerns. She has worked with adults, children, adolescents, groups, families, and couples in outpatient, intensive outpatient, and residential/inpatient care.