Mary Blankenburg , LISW

Mary Blankenburg is a licensed social worker with 35 years of clinical experience who emphasizes the healing potential of a strong therapeutic relationship. She has provided individual, couples, family, and group therapy across settings that include a community mental health agency, a program serving adolescents and their families, and a private practice she has maintained for thirty years. Mary blends attention to emotional history with practical, body-aware methods informed by her background as a trained dancer, exploring simple movement strategies alongside talk-based work to support overall wellbeing.

Her practice attends to depression, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, self-esteem, addictions, relationship and family issues, sleep problems, anger, career concerns, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among other areas. She works sensitively with personality disorder traits and the effects of trauma, supporting post-traumatic growth while helping people recognize bodily and autonomic cues that signal safety or distress. Mary uses trauma-focused skills, including EMDR and gentle movement, together with developmental, cognitive, and attachment-based frameworks to change how past toxic experiences relate to present life.

Mary helps people cultivate greater self-kindness and gradually remediate the effects of trauma. She holds the credential LISW - Licensed Independent Social Worker - and brings a steady, compassionate approach to the often challenging but ultimately rewarding work of healing.

Integrating Therapeutic Approaches with Online Care

Mary often uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values, notice unhelpful thoughts without getting entangled in them, and take meaningful action toward a valued life. ACT is useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes because it emphasizes psychological flexibility and purposeful action.

Attachment-Based Therapy is another core influence, focusing on how early relationships shape current patterns in intimacy, trust, and emotional regulation. This approach helps people understand attachment wounds and develop new relational strategies, which can be especially helpful for relationship, abandonment, and attachment-related concerns.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary and other licensed professionals work with clients to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, and they adjust the plan over time to reflect what is most helpful.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to engage in this work - through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to connect from different locations. These options support continuity of care and allow therapists and clients to choose the format that best supports progress and comfort.