Mary Bulla

Mary Bulla is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) based in Florida who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, and career concerns. She supports those coping with life changes, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting challenges, trauma, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Mary also works with people navigating illness, caregiver strain, and loss.

Her style is flexible and client-centered. She aims to create a nonjudgmental space and invites feedback so sessions can shift to what helps most. Sessions focus on practical steps, skill-building, and talking through painful events or stuck patterns.

Mary uses a mix of approaches and tailors them to each person’s needs. She draws on client-centered work to follow the client's priorities, solution-focused tools to set short-term goals, and EMDR when trauma processing is appropriate. She also incorporates psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring patterns and what they mean now.

Her background includes a master’s degree from Nova Southeastern University and clinical work across hospice, community health, and private practice. She has experience with grief support, children and teen services, group facilitation, and supporting people with chronic illness.

Mary emphasizes collaboration. She helps clients define goals, practice coping strategies, and notice changes over time. She is open about the fit process and encourages honesty if someone feels a different match would work better.

How Mary’s Approaches Translate to Online Work

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the client. The therapist mirrors concerns, asks questions, and helps the client set the agenda for each session. This approach supports people working through life changes, relationship struggles, or career decisions.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a method used to help people process traumatic memories. In practice it involves guided attention and step-by-step processing to reduce the intensity of painful memories and related symptoms. It can be useful for post-traumatic stress, abuse, and significant loss.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist and client will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust the plan as needed. Decisions about which techniques to use are collaborative and based on the client’s comfort and progress.

Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, because it removes travel time and can allow scheduling around work or caregiving. Depending on the options Mary supports, online work can allow shorter check-ins, sessions during a lunch break, or continued care when relocation or travel would otherwise interrupt therapy. Confirm the exact session formats available before booking to match how you want to meet.