Mary Yost, LCMHC

Mary Yost is a licensed clinical mental health counselor (LCMHC) with 29 years of practice. She focuses on helping people move through depression, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy issues, and low self-esteem. Her tone is steady and practical, aimed at people who need clear, usable support.

She uses methods drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and cognitive behavioral ideas to help people notice what matters and change unhelpful patterns. Attachment-based work and client-centered conversation help when past connections shape current relationships. Dialectical behavior therapy skills are used where emotional regulation and distress tolerance are needed.

Mary sees each person as having their own story and practical needs. Sessions are collaborative - she helps people set short-term goals and try small, manageable changes between visits. She also supports people dealing with chronic illness, cancer, caregiving stress, and body image or identity concerns related to neurodiversity.

Her background includes long experience with addiction and recovery, coping with separation and divorce, and life-stage transitions from young adulthood through later life. That range means she often helps people rebuild routines, communication, and a sense of purpose after big changes.

Mary works in New Hampshire and conducts her work in English. To begin, people are invited to use the site’s Start Therapy flow to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a session according to her listed availability.

How her approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small actions toward those values, even when thoughts or feelings are hard. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms like low mood or anxiety. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and helps people practice different ways of relating.

Picking the right approach is part of therapy. Mary works with each person to match methods to their goals and preferences. That choice is collaborative - she listens to needs, tries strategies, and adjusts plans together with the client.

The biography does not list specific online session types, so confirm available formats before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, keep check-ins brief when time is tight, or avoid travel when pain or illness limits mobility. Many people find remote sessions let them practice skills between appointments in the settings where they live and cope, which can help apply new tools to everyday life.