Mary Hamm

Mary Hamm is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) practicing in Tennessee. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, burnout, or major life changes. Mary writes in plain terms and aims to create a respectful, affirming space where clients can name what’s hard and begin to take small steps forward.

She uses a flexible, client-driven style rather than a one-size-fits-all method. Sessions draw on cognitive behavioral ideas to spot unhelpful thoughts, mindfulness to steady attention, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values and action. Motivational interviewing is used when people want help finding motivation for change.

Mary has 16 years of clinical experience working with stress, trauma and abuse, compassion fatigue, addictions, mood disorders, ADHD, and grief. She also supports concerns such as parenting strain, sleep and eating issues, relationship problems, caregiving stress, intellectual disability, and life meaning. Her background includes helping people manage panic, bipolar symptoms, and challenges after adoption or foster care.

Her sessions tend to focus on practical skills - noticing thought patterns, building calm routines, and choosing small, doable steps toward goals. She encourages clients to try techniques between meetings and to adapt what works for their daily life. That approach helps people translate insight into real change.

To begin, readers are invited to follow the site’s Start Therapy process and complete the brief matching questionnaire. From there scheduling is arranged according to therapist availability.

How therapy approaches translate to online care

Mary commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Client-Centered Therapy in her work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on clarifying what matters most to a person and taking small committed steps toward those values while accepting difficult thoughts and feelings. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and building a collaborative relationship so clients can lead the pace and focus of sessions.

She also draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to help identify unhelpful thinking and to practice new coping skills between meetings. These practical techniques often suit stress, anxiety, mood shifts, and challenges like panic or ADHD-related overwhelm.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then adapt methods as progress and needs evolve.

The biography does not specify which online session formats are offered, so confirm current options before booking. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life - shorter check-ins on a break, using audio rather than video when attention or bandwidth is limited, or keeping continuity during life transitions. Licensed professionals can help translate in-person tools into practical steps you can use between appointments.