Mary McLaggan, LPC, LMHC
Texas · 20 years in practice
Mary McLaggan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience.
License and registration
- LPC, Texas
- 19406 · expires March 2027
- LMHC, Iowa
- 121856 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1649449760 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 20
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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 McLaggan is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience. She speaks English and Spanish and focuses on helping people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and life changes. Her style is straightforward and respectful, aimed at making therapy feel manageable for someone new to the process.
She adapts conversations and plans to fit each person’s situation. Sessions focus on practical ways to cope, build self-esteem, and improve day-to-day functioning.
Background and approach
Mary also addresses concerns such as ADHD, grief, sleep problems, and intimacy-related issues. Her work draws on existential ideas that help people consider meaning, choice, and responsibility in their lives. She also uses client-centered techniques to create a calm, accepting space for people to speak openly.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy tools are used when clients want clear strategies for changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Across 20 years, Mary has supported people through trauma, caregiving stress, career challenges, and relationship communication problems. She pays attention to attachment patterns and how those shape trust and closeness.
She is experienced in working with topics like adoption and foster care, body image, and LGBTQ concerns. People looking for flexible session formats can work with her by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. She is licensed as an LPC and as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), and practices from Iowa while not offering services to international clients.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Mary lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Self esteem
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Mary names
- Existential Therapy
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic 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
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Existential Therapy helps people examine meaning, choice, and responsibility in their lives. In remote sessions that can look like guided conversations about priorities, values, and how someone wants to shape their future. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on patterns of relating and trust that affect relationships. Online work may include exploring how past attachments affect current communication and closeness and practicing different ways of connecting.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to your goals and try different methods to see what fits. Together you decide whether to emphasize existential questions, attachment work, skill-based CBT strategies, or a mix that meets your needs.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text-based messaging let people share thoughts in writing, review skills between sessions, and keep a steady line of contact between appointments.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, ADHD, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting strain, career challenges, and more.
What is her therapeutic approach like?
She blends existential thinking about meaning and choice with client-centered listening and practical CBT or DBT skills when useful.
How much experience does she have?
Mary has 20 years of professional experience working with a wide range of concerns and life transitions.
Where is she licensed and based?
She holds LPC and Licensed Mental Health Counselor credentials and practices from Iowa while maintaining licensure in Texas and Iowa as noted.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English and Spanish.
What session formats are available?
Sessions can be conducted by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does billing or cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
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