Dr. Mary Walker , LPC

Dr. Mary Walker is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Texas who brings more than 10 years of clinical experience to her work with individuals facing complex life challenges. She combines a longstanding curiosity about people with practical therapeutic skills developed through graduate training and extensive clinical practice. Her academic path includes a Master of Arts in Counseling from Houston Graduate School of Theology and a Ph.D. from Texas A&M Corpus Christi, and she has pursued additional training in trauma, PTSD, personality disorders, grief, dissociation, depression, OCD, transitions, and anxiety.

Before becoming a counselor she worked many years as a high school art teacher, an experience that deepened her understanding of young people and their inner lives. She also served as a mentor in several church settings, where she focused on helping people build practical skills to move forward from difficult pasts. Those roles inform her collaborative, empathetic style and her belief that people can develop the tools needed to regain a fuller sense of wellbeing.

Dr. Walker works from client-centered principles and incorporates evidence-based approaches such as cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy, along with mindfulness and existential perspectives when appropriate. Her specialties include eating and sleep concerns, addictions, LGBT issues, grief, career challenges, bipolar disorder, coaching, and ADHD, and she attends to related areas such as family-of-origin dynamics, adoption and foster care issues, abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, codependency, and dissociation. She views therapy as a partnership that helps individuals move from struggle toward more constructive, meaningful living.

Therapeutic Approaches for Online Care

Dr. Mary Walker uses client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) as core approaches in her online practice. Client-centered therapy focuses on creating a respectful, nonjudgmental relationship where the individual’s values and goals guide the work - it helps with issues related to identity, self-esteem, and major life transitions. CBT helps people identify and shift unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns, and is commonly used for anxiety, depression, OCD, and coping with stress. DBT combines skills training in emotional regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, and mindfulness, and is well suited for intense emotions, impulse challenges, and relationship difficulties.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Dr. Walker collaborates with each person to understand their needs, preferences, and goals, and she adapts methods over time so the treatment fits the individual rather than expecting the person to fit a single model.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging, allowing flexibility in scheduling and format. These options make it easier to access regular support from licensed professionals while balancing work, family, and other responsibilities, and they allow therapy to continue across locations and life changes.