Dr. Mary Schacht , LICSW

Dr. Mary Schacht provides individual therapy to adults as a licensed clinical social worker (LICSW) with 12 years of experience supporting people through stress, anxiety, trauma, depression, and major life changes. Her clinical background includes long-term work in community mental health settings with youth, adolescents, adults, and families, paired with international experience that broadened her perspective across languages and cultural contexts. In western Kenya she co-founded a non-governmental agency focused on youth and conflict analysis, an experience that has informed her approach to trauma and community recovery.

She integrates a wide range of clinical theories and interventions and adapts them to each person’s circumstances, drawing on psychodynamic ideas, family-of-origin and developmental perspectives, systems thinking, and cognitive-behavioral methods. Education about stress and trauma responses is often part of her work to help clients understand how experiences shape thoughts, emotions, and behavior. Dr. Schacht attends closely to the social, cultural, and political forces that shape individuals and families and that can influence the course of therapy.

Working from a client-centered, strengths-based stance, she lets each person’s goals guide treatment and focuses on helping people recognize and expand their existing capacities and supports. Her practice addresses a range of concerns including grief, parenting, relationship and family issues, compassion fatigue, first responder stress, coping with disasters, immigration-related challenges, post-traumatic stress, bipolar disorder, and ADHD.

Therapeutic approaches and online care with Dr. Mary Schacht

Dr. Mary Schacht practices client-centered therapy, which places the person’s own goals and experiences at the center of care and helps build self-directed solutions and stronger coping. Mindfulness therapy is used to increase present-moment awareness and to reduce reactivity to stress, supporting people who struggle with anxiety, anger, or emotional overwhelm. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on understanding and processing traumatic experiences with methods that aim to reduce trauma-related symptoms and improve day-to-day functioning.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Dr. Schacht works with each person to identify what methods best match their needs, history, and preferences, adjusting strategy over time as goals evolve. The therapeutic plan is shaped by the client’s priorities and by clinical judgment to promote meaningful progress.

Online therapy with Dr. Schacht offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging, making it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and to access care from different locations within Washington. These options allow licensed professionals and therapists to maintain continuity of care and to tailor communication styles to what feels most effective and convenient for each person.