Mary Spurlin, LPC

Mary Spurlin is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Texas who focuses on practical, problem-focused therapy. She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and challenges after trauma or abuse. Mary treats relationship and intimacy-related struggles, anger, low self-esteem, and compassion fatigue. She frames the work around a person’s own strengths and choices.

Mary approaches sessions as a collaborative process. She listens to each person’s story and helps them identify small, manageable steps forward. Her background includes 12 years working with people under stress and with trauma histories, which shapes how she structures sessions and goals.

In therapy she uses straightforward methods to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also uses trauma-focused strategies to address painful memories and reactions. Her practical focus aims to reduce symptoms and improve daily coping skills.

Mary has experience supporting people facing life changes like aging concerns, cancer, caregiver stress, and issues related to abandonment and shame. She also has experience with first responder stress and sexual assault and abuse recovery, adapting her approach to each person’s needs.

Sessions are conducted in English and follow professional practice in Texas. She emphasizes that taking the first step requires courage and that progress often comes from steady, practical changes. To begin, follow the site’s Start Therapy steps to match and schedule a session.

How Mary’s Approaches Translate to Online Therapy

Mary commonly uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Trauma-Focused Therapy in her work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and practicing different ways of thinking and acting to reduce anxiety and depression. Trauma-Focused Therapy targets the impact of traumatic events by helping people process reactions and build safety and coping skills for daily life.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapy process. Mary will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals, history, and comfort level. That collaboration helps shape session goals and homework between meetings.

If you are considering online therapy, confirm the specific session formats offered before booking because the profile does not list them. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. Licensed professionals can adapt CBT and trauma-focused work to an online setting by using structured exercises, guided skill practice, and step-by-step processing so progress can continue even when meeting remotely.