Mary Baez, LMFT
California · 16 years in practice
Mary Baez, LMFT, helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing major life changes.
License and registration
- LMFT, California
- 48302 · expires February 2026
- NPI
- 1245322874 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 16
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Mary
Mary Baez, LMFT, helps people who are stressed, anxious, grieving, or facing major life changes. She also supports those coping with depression, trauma, addiction, anger, intimacy concerns, ADHD, and workplace or multicultural stresses. Her voice is calm and direct, and she aims to make therapy feel understandable and useful from the first session.
Mary begins by listening closely and building a trusting relationship. She uses a person-centered stance that prioritizes being heard without judgment.
Background and approach
That foundation helps people talk through painful memories, manage difficult emotions, and consider new choices for daily life. Her approach draws on several methods and is tailored to each person. She blends existential ideas about meaning and choice with practical tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and skills from dialectical behavior therapy.
Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) may be used for trauma work when appropriate. Over 16 years in California settings gave her broad experience with individual struggles and organizational contexts. She has supervised newer therapists and continues to learn from clients and colleagues.
That mix of practice and ongoing learning shapes how she adapts interventions to real life. Sessions focus on building strengths, improving coping, and helping people act on what matters to them. Practical exercises, focused conversations, and gentle challenges are used when they fit.
The goal is clearer choices, fewer reliving moments, and a more purposeful day-to-day life.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Mary lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Depression
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Blended family issues
- Communication problems
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Immigration issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Self-love
- Workplace issues
Approaches Mary names
- Existential Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
Approaches that inform online work and what to expect
Existential therapy focuses on questions about meaning, choice, and responsibility. In a few sentences it helps people facing emptiness, life transitions, or questions about purpose to name what matters and consider ways to live more intentionally.Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening, empathy, and unconditional positive regard. It aims to create a space where people can speak freely, feel heard, and gradually discover their own solutions to relationship, work, and emotional problems.
Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It uses short exercises and practical strategies to change unhelpful thinking patterns and improve everyday coping for anxiety, depression, and stress.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped in the past. Together they choose which methods to try and revise the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy can include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video is useful for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can be easier during a busy day. Live chat and messaging allow brief check-ins, skill practice between sessions, or support when writing feels easier than speaking.
These options give flexibility to fit therapy into real life while using existential, person-centered, or CBT tools in practical ways.
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you. It does not change what you pay or the order of the listings.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Mary commonly address?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, trauma and abuse, addictions, and coping with life changes. Additional focus areas include intimacy, anger, self-esteem, ADHD, workplace issues, and multicultural concerns.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Mary takes a person-centered stance that begins with careful listening and nonjudgmental presence. She combines that with practical tools so sessions feel both empathetic and useful.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 16 years of experience in California working in a variety of mental health settings and has served as a clinical supervisor for newer therapists.
What are her credentials and practice location?
She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, LMFT, licensed in California and practices in that state.
Which languages are sessions offered in?
Sessions are offered in English.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging depending on what fits a person’s needs.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability. Sessions are provided through a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.
More therapists in California
See allGian Sarabia
LMFT
Calm, practical help for life and relationships
- Trauma and abuse
- Intimacy-related issues
- Bipolar
Sherri Kardell
LMFT
Calm guidance through life’s painful transitions
- Relationship
- Family
- Trauma and abuse
Stacey Sugar
MD, LCPC, LPCC
Existential-informed therapist focused on meaning
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship
- Family
Is this your profile?
Ask us to correct details or take the page down.
Contact us