Mary Walston , LCMHC

Mary Walston, LCMHC (Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor), is a North Carolina clinician with 11 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and families through a wide range of life challenges. She has worked extensively with people facing depression, anxiety, grief, relationship and family conflicts, parenting struggles, career transitions, and the effects of trauma and abuse. Her practice also addresses intimacy-related concerns, anger and self-esteem issues, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and coping with major life changes.

Mary brings a warm, accepting, and interactive counseling style that emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion. She collaborates with clients to identify underlying patterns and root causes that contribute to personal and relational difficulties, and she tailors each session to meet the unique needs of the individual, couple, or family. Her clinical toolkit draws on evidence-informed approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, and Attachment-Based methods to help clients develop insight, build skills, and move toward healthier patterns.

Additional focus areas in her work include abandonment, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, commitment and communication problems, control issues, divorce and separation, family-of-origin concerns, fatherhood issues, first responder stress, forgiveness, guilt and shame, impulsivity, and infidelity. Mary is licensed in North Carolina - NC LCMHC 10538 - and has used her training to guide many people through repair and healing. She is not currently accepting new clients.