Mary Kivett

Mary Kivett is a Florida licensed mental health counselor who focuses on helping people build stronger self-worth and cope with life changes. She brings six years of clinical experience and a background in public education to her work. Mary greets each person with energy and a positive outlook aimed at practical progress.

She uses straightforward conversation and a collaborative style to identify small, workable steps people can try between sessions. Her work often centers on stress, anxiety, ADHD, compassion fatigue, and relationship or family concerns. Mary also supports people facing grief, career questions, parenting pressures, and issues around self-esteem and life purpose.

Sessions are shaped around the individual rather than a single method. She draws from client-centered ideas, cognitive behavioral tools, mindfulness, and solution-focused techniques to match each person’s needs. That means sessions may include skill building, thought tracking, and brief experiments to test new behaviors.

Mary aims to create a nonjudgmental space where people can talk through shame, guilt, control struggles, codependency, and communication problems. Her approach emphasizes practical change and recognizing existing strengths. Clients commonly work on clearer boundaries, healthier coping, and more confident decision making.

Her experience in schools gives her perspective on adolescents and young adults, though she works with adults across many life stages. People who want active, goal-oriented help with everyday stresses and career-related questions may find her approach direct and supportive.

Approaches you can try in online sessions

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and building trust so clients feel heard and supported; it helps when someone needs a calm space to sort out goals and values. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts influence feelings and actions and teaches concrete techniques to change unhelpful patterns, which is useful for anxiety, stress, and mood struggles.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about goals, try methods that fit the client's needs, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaboration means sessions can be reshaped over time as progress and priorities become clearer.

Confirm current session options before booking since formats are not specified here. Online therapy can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life by reducing travel time and allowing appointments during lunch breaks or between commitments. It also lets people try shorter check-ins or full sessions depending on what they need that week. Talk with the therapist when scheduling to match session length and timing to everyday routines.