Mary McDonald is a Therapist based in the USA. My areas of speciality include ADD and ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Codependency, Coping Skills, Emotional Disturbance, Learning Disabilities, Life Coaching, Peer Relationships, Self Esteem, and Stress. This profile is currently unclaimed; please validate the details are current when communicating with the mental health professional.
Therapist Overview
The Covid pandemic creates enormous stress and often exacerbates whatever has burdened us all along. It’s not a good time to be alone and therapy may be especially useful. We may seek treatment to cope with stress, gain relief from pain, or escape from troubling patterns. It can also provide more than expected: greater adaptability and resourcefulness, and a livelier relationship with one’s self and with others. During dark times, our difficulties are often compounded by feeling we have lost touch with our natural strengths. I have advanced psychodynamic training directed towards helping individuals re-connect with those strengths, and even to access unknown resources within themselves. Insight can illuminate the path to discovery, reconnection and growth, but insight in a vacuum is cold comfort indeed. My clients describe me as earnest, approachable, warm, and, yes – insightful. I am not a remote practitioner, believing the work needs to be done in a companionable, accepting space w