Mary Katherine Garcia, LPC

Mary Katherine Garcia is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship strain, low self-esteem, depression, grief, parenting challenges, and trauma. She focuses on practical steps people can use now to feel steadier and more capable. Her style is warm and direct, with an emphasis on small, manageable changes.

Mary Katherine draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and other approaches to help clients notice unhelpful thoughts and try different responses. She also uses parts work ideas to help people understand the different sides of themselves. Sessions are a mix of talking through recent struggles, practicing new skills, and checking what actually helps in daily life.

Her work is collaborative. She treats the person in the room as the expert on their life and offers tools and questions to test new ways of coping. That might mean learning grounding and emotion-regulation skills, rebuilding trust in close relationships, or creating steps to recover after loss.

With nine years of experience, Mary Katherine brings steady support for people navigating major life changes and lingering mood or trauma-related issues. She aims to make therapy feel doable, not overwhelming.

People who choose her can expect clear feedback, homework that fits their routine, and a focus on progress over perfection. She practices in Arizona and conducts sessions in English.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Mary Katherine uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps people spot patterns in thoughts and behaviors and try concrete experiments to change them. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress by focusing on practical, testable steps. She also uses Dialectical Behavior Therapy to teach emotion-regulation, distress-tolerance, and interpersonal skills when feelings become intense or relationships feel unstable.

Choosing the right method is part of the work together. She will ask about your goals, what has helped or not helped before, and your day-to-day routine. Then she and the client decide together which approaches and exercises to try and adjust them over time based on what fits and what produces real change.

Online therapy offers different ways to meet depending on what works best that day. Video calls let you practice communication skills and read facial cues, phone sessions can work when bandwidth is low or you prefer not to be on camera, and live chat or text-based messaging can support shorter check-ins, timely skills reminders, or ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make scheduling easier and let sessions fit around work, school, or caregiving demands.