Mary Spurlin, LPC

Mary Spurlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas with 12 years of practice. She focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, and depression. Mary emphasizes collaboration and respects each person's experience as central to change.

She uses straightforward strategies to help people notice patterns in thoughts and behavior and try small changes that add up. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, is part of her approach to challenge negative thinking and build more helpful habits. When trauma is involved she may use approaches designed for processing painful memories and reducing their hold on daily life.

Mary often helps people work through relationship and intimacy concerns and manage anger, low self-esteem, and major life transitions. She also offers support around compassion fatigue, caregiver stress, and issues connected to aging, cancer, or first responder work. Her practice includes work with survivors of sexual assault and other abuse, and with people coping with guilt, shame, or abandonment.

Sessions are practical and goal-focused. Conversations aim to clarify what matters most, test ideas in everyday situations, and develop coping tools that feel doable. Mary encourages steady progress rather than quick fixes.

She offers services in English and works with adults in Texas. People who choose to begin complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions that fit their needs. Mary frames the work as a team effort toward clearer goals and more manageable days.

Online therapy using CBT and trauma-focused methods

Mary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help people identify and change unhelpful thought patterns and develop practical coping skills. CBT focuses on small, testable changes in thinking and behavior that can reduce anxiety, low mood, and everyday stress.

When trauma is part of someones story, she also uses trauma-focused approaches and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) techniques that aim to lessen the intensity of traumatic memories and their emotional impact. These methods target painful memories while building safer ways to respond to triggers and distress.

Choosing the best approach is a collaborative process. Mary discusses goals, preferences, and what has or hasnt helped before, then tailors a plan. She checks in and adjusts strategies over time so the work fits the person and their life.

Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets people work in real time and use visual cues, phone can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited, and messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing written work between sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.