Mary Kallenbach, LCMHC

Mary Kallenbach is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor Supervisor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, grief, and midlife changes. She works with concerns ranging from trauma and depression to issues around intimacy, addiction, and self-esteem. Mary practices in North Carolina and uses straightforward language to help people find practical steps forward.

She has twenty-three years of clinical experience and earned a Master of Arts in Counseling from Webster University in 1997. Mary has provided care in inpatient, community, school, and residential settings. That experience includes work with eating disorders, PTSD, personality and psychotic disorders, and a wide range of emotional health concerns.

Mary’s approach is practical and person-focused. She aims to meet people where they are and to support them in identifying values, building skills, and making workable changes. Sessions often include tools from cognitive behavioral approaches and mindfulness to help manage symptoms and improve daily functioning.

She also uses techniques drawn from acceptance and commitment practices, dialectical behavior ideas, and eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate. Those methods are chosen to match a person’s goals and comfort level rather than applied the same way for everyone.

Mary has run a private practice since 1998 and has long experience facilitating individual and group work. She describes therapy as a collaborative effort and looks to empower people to handle life transitions and complex emotional challenges.

How certain approaches can fit into online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying what matters to a person and taking steps toward those values while learning to live with difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with life transitions, midlife concerns, and persistent anxiety. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and is commonly used for depression, anxiety, and stress-related problems. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) addresses distressing memories by pairing guided processing with bilateral stimulation and is often used for trauma-related symptoms.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, past experience, and comfort with different methods, then suggest options and adjust them over time. This is framed as a collaborative process rather than a one-size-fits-all plan.

Many people find online therapy helps fit sessions into busy lives because it can reduce travel and allow appointments around work or family commitments. Confirm the session formats available before booking so you know how appointments are conducted. Online work can still include skills practice, values-based planning, and trauma-focused techniques adapted for remote sessions, and the therapist will help choose what makes sense for your needs.