About Mary
Mary Schoen is a licensed independent clinical social worker (LICSW) in Minnesota with 17 years of practice. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on helping people who feel stuck by listening closely and working at their pace. Her style is straightforward and practical, aimed at small changes that add up over time.
She combines somatic awareness with proven talk approaches to address stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma, grief, and mood concerns.
Background and approach
Sessions often include exercises that link bodily experience to thoughts and emotions. Mary adapts methods to what each person needs rather than following a single formula. Her background includes broad experience across many settings, and she has helped people with relationship and intimacy questions, parenting strain, career stress, and challenges such as ADHD and compassion fatigue.
She also supports people facing major life changes and complicated grief. Mary uses elements from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work, client-centered listening, and cognitive behavioral techniques. That mix allows practical tools for managing symptoms and building values-based goals.
She keeps language plain and focuses on what feels useful in day-to-day life. Sessions are offered in English and delivered online by video, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Costs vary with location and use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps connect people and then scheduling follows therapist availability.
How somatic and talk approaches work online
Somatic-informed work pays attention to how the body holds stress and emotion, using simple grounding and awareness steps to help people notice patterns and feel more calm. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small actions that matter, helping with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationships shape current patterns and can help with connection and intimacy questions.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to test what feels helpful and adjusts methods based on needs, goals, and personal preferences. That collaborative process helps decide whether more body-focused work, values-driven exercises, or attachment-focused discussion will best support progress.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions by video, phone, live chat, or text let people access care from home or between life demands. This variety allows shorter check-ins or longer conversations as needed, and makes it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule while keeping the focus on what works in everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota
- Languages
- English