Mary Redding, LCSW

Mary Redding is a licensed clinical social worker with 36 years of experience helping people through difficult life moments. She practices in Mississippi and focuses on family issues, parenting concerns, stress, anxiety, and relationship difficulties. Her work also covers grief, depression, addictions, and career-related strain. She uses a blend of approaches and keeps sessions practical and centered on the person in front of her. Conversations often focus on clearer communication, building coping skills, and setting realistic steps for change. Mary aims to make therapy a straightforward place to talk and try things that make daily life easier. Her background includes long experience with attachment and family dynamics, which she draws on when addressing topics like blended family challenges, adoption and foster care, caregiver stress, and aging concerns. This experience informs how she helps people sort through complicated family-of-origin issues and patterns that repeat across generations. Session work may include tools from cognitive behavioral approaches, acceptance-based practices, and emotion-focused strategies to manage anger, grief, or overwhelm. She also incorporates skills from dialectical behavior approaches when emotional regulation or intense stress is present. Mary describes her style as empathetic and tailored. She listens for what matters most, then helps people choose practical, manageable steps. Clients who want clear, down-to-earth support for life changes and relationship challenges may find her approach helpful.

How therapeutic approaches shape online work

Mary often draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people notice unhelpful thoughts and commit to actions tied to personal values. ACT can help with anxiety, stress, and making decisions that matter day to day.

She also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify patterns of thinking and behavior that maintain problems. CBT provides concrete skills for managing mood, worry, and stressful situations.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Mary will listen to your goals and preferences and help decide which methods to try first. That choice is collaborative and can change as needs evolve.

Confirm the available session formats before you book, since the biography does not list specific options. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, offer shorter check-ins when schedules are tight, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use video or audio as fits their day and bandwidth, and supports continuing care when life circumstances change.