Offerings
Compassionate Heartspace is privileged to offer a range of mental health services to meet diverse needs.
Counseling
Compassionate Heartspace offers holistic, person-centered counseling for individuals, couples, and families. With compassionate presence – and mindful of your strengths and history – Mary will work with you to nourish insights, strategies, and resources to support you in overcoming difficulty and meeting life whole-heartedly. She brings a holistic, person-centered, attachment- and mindfulness- based approach to working with children, teens, and adults experiencing a wide range of life challenges.
Trauma Treatment
Some life experiences can profoundly shake our sense of safety and undermine our sense of self. Such experiences may be clearly life threatening to ourselves or those close to us. Or they may be more subtle, overlooked by others but felt sharply and deeply by ourselves. They may be one-time events or could occur over years. What matters is that these experiences of the past continue to cause us suffering in the present. Compassionate Heartspace offers evidence based interventions such as EMDR, Written Exposure Therapy, EFT (tapping) and trauma informed mindfulness practices to support you in processing and integrating these experiences and transforming beliefs to be more adaptive, realistic, and self-compassionate.
Mindfulness Instruction
Mary is a longtime mindfulness practitioner and a certified instructor through the 2 year Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program (Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield, instructors), with further study with Kaira Jewell Lingo and other teachers.
She integrates mindfulness training into individual counseling as appropriate – including mindful communication, mindful parenting, and trauma-informed mindfulness - as well as offering focused training in individual and group settings.
Support for Transgender
& gender-diverse individuals
and their families/friends:
Mary has a deep passion for supporting gender-diverse folx and those who love them. Whether just beginning to explore gender identity or fully transitioned, Mary brings a personal commitment to providing safety and respect - as well as connection to resources and community - to support you. She likewise stands ready to support family members and friends seeking to process and understand the transition of their loved one.
Support for Neurodiverse
individuals and their families/friends:
Mental health professionals are still in the early days of understanding Autism, ADHD, OCD, sensory processing, highly sensitive person (HSP), communication processing, persistent demand avoidance, and similar neurodiverse conditions. Many individuals who embody these conditions struggle to understand themselves and why they experience such difficulty navigating life. Mary brings long personal experience and deep clinical interest to supporting neurodiverse clients in understanding, accepting, and embracing their unique strengths and needs and identifying strategies and resources to support their success.
