Mary Yates

I have been an LCSW for over 25 years and genuinely love connecting with people to develop skills that find greater stability, serenity and internal strength. I enjoy emphasizing strengths and resilience, while working to understand larger patterns, working through trauma and developing skills to reduce anxiety, emotional reactions, relationship breakdown, substance abuse and disordered eating. I love building relationships with people to learn practices that can change self defeating patterns and learn to live in a way that is more life giving, open, balanced and stable.

I believe in healing from a holistic perspective and looking at the full picture of health and wellness - including self-care, healthy coping and relationship skills. I utilize evidence based and trauma informed tools such as EMDR and mindfulness for body-mind regulation and often support and encourage spiritual exploration.

It is an incredibly brave and potentially transformational step to consider counseling and I would love to connect with you to help work through barriers to become your fullest, strongest, most open and authentic self.