About Mary
Dr. Mary Weeden centers her practice on evidence-informed approaches that prioritize client experience and emotional connection.
Background and approach
As a licensed clinical social worker with three decades of professional practice, she integrates methods such as attachment-based work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and emotion-focused strategies to address stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and eating concerns. Her background also includes nursing, which contributes to a broad understanding of medical and end-of-life issues.
Mary Weeden builds therapeutic partnerships that emphasize openness and nonjudgmental listening, helping clients explore feelings around self-esteem, body image, abandonment, and communication difficulties. She brings experience with caregiver stress, family-of-origin dynamics, divorce and separation, and midlife transitions, tailoring interventions to each person’s circumstances and strengths.
Practical skills from DBT and CBT are blended with relational approaches to support regulation, clarity, and renewed motivation. Practices are offered from Wisconsin under the credential LCSW, and she maintains the perspective that change is possible with steady effort and support.
Prospective clients can expect collaborative conversation, compassionate guidance, and a focus on building strategies for more satisfying daily life.
Integrating Relational and Skills-Based Therapies Online
Attachment-Based Therapy centers on understanding how early relationships influence current patterns of closeness and trust; it helps people explore attachment needs and improve emotional bonds. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, offering practical tools for anxiety, mood challenges, and eating-related concerns. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) attends to emotions and relational patterns to foster greater emotional awareness and connection when that is relevant to a person’s concerns.Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and the therapist collaborates with each person to determine which combination of relational work and skills-based strategies best fits their goals and preferences. That collaborative exploration helps tailor interventions so that sessions feel relevant and effective for the issues at hand.
Online therapy with this clinician uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexible access to care. These formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, maintain continuity when life is unpredictable, and choose the communication style that feels most comfortable while working toward personal goals.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Eating disorders
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Illinois, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English