Mary Jo Greenwood , LCSW

Mary Jo Greenwood is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with 21 years of experience providing mental health services. She earned her Master of Social Work from the University of Nebraska at Omaha in 2002 and has practiced across a range of settings, from psychiatric inpatient units to group homes, crisis centers, and outpatient counseling.

Living and working in a rural area with limited access to mental health care has given her opportunities to support people from many walks of life. She has extensive experience helping individuals who struggle with depression, anxiety - including related conditions such as obsessive-compulsive tendencies and sleep difficulties - and a variety of relationship concerns, including unhealthy or abusive partnerships, parenting challenges, and couples work. A significant portion of her career has involved the child welfare and juvenile systems, where she has worked with abused and neglected children and their parents.

Mary Jo brings a trauma-informed lens to her work and seeks to understand the whole person rather than focusing only on isolated symptoms. Her approach is eclectic and client-driven, combining methods to create treatment plans that adapt as a person’s needs change. She also draws on personal and professional experience supporting military veterans and families navigating VA disability processes, and she offers practical ideas for those involved with the VA.

Friends describe her as "The most approachable person in the room," and she aims to provide nonjudgmental support that helps people build skills and gain agency. She values online counseling for its ability to remove barriers to care and has used messaging, phone, and video to help clients begin and sustain meaningful change. She began offering online services in January 2020 and continues to maintain long-term therapeutic relationships begun at that time. Mary Jo looks forward to assisting clients in meeting their potential and improving everyday quality of life.

Therapeutic Approaches Adapted to Online Care

Mary Jo Greenwood uses attachment-based work to explore how early relationships shape current patterns of connection and trust; this approach can help clients struggling with attachment issues, adoption and foster care concerns, and relational difficulties. She also employs client-centered therapy, which emphasizes empathy, unconditional positive regard, and collaboration so clients steer the pace and focus of their healing while the therapist provides support and reflection. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another common tool in her practice - it helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and develop practical strategies for managing anxiety, depression, and stress.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Mary Jo works collaboratively with each person to determine what methods align with their goals, preferences, and current needs. Treatment plans are flexible and evolve as progress is made.

Online sessions via video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging make it easier for people in rural areas or with busy schedules to access licensed professionals and therapists. These remote options offer flexibility in scheduling, the ability to engage from familiar settings, and multiple ways to communicate so clients can begin in the format that feels most comfortable and shift as they grow.