- 20 years experience
- ACT and CBT
- Asynchronous messaging
About Mary
Mary Beth Ritchie is a licensed clinical social worker with two decades of experience helping people navigate life changes and emotional challenges. She approaches therapy with warmth, straightforwardness, and a sense of humor. Mary Beth aims to reduce symptoms, improve relationships, and help clients move toward their goals in clear, practical steps.
She frames sessions as a collaborative process where the client’s priorities guide the work. Mary Beth uses a mix of approaches and adapts techniques to fit each person rather than using a single method for everyone. She emphasizes honest communication and a nonjudgmental tone in sessions.
Clients commonly bring concerns such as stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, grief, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem and body image. She also addresses parenting challenges, caregiver stress, career changes, ADHD, bipolar-related coping, and issues that come up around aging and blended families.
Her methods include acceptance and commitment work, client-centered techniques, cognitive behavioral strategies, mindfulness practices, and motivational interviewing. These tools are used to help people notice patterns, try new behaviors, and clarify what matters most to them.
Mary Beth mentions using live sessions alongside a heavier reliance on asynchronous messaging in her practice. She finds messaging gives both client and therapist time to reflect between contacts. Prospective clients are invited to consider whether that style fits their needs before starting.
How her approach adapts to online work
Mary Beth uses acceptance and commitment approaches to help people clarify values and take small committed steps toward meaningful goals. ACT is often used for anxiety, stress, and coping with life changes by focusing on what matters rather than getting stuck in unhelpful thoughts.She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques that look at thought and behavior patterns and test small experiments to change unhelpful routines. CBT-style work can help with depression, sleep problems, eating struggles, and anxious thinking.
Finding the right method is part of the journey. She will work with each person to decide which approaches to try based on their goals, challenges, and preferences. That decision is collaborative and can shift over time as needs change.
Her profile notes both live sessions and a reliance on asynchronous messaging. Prospective clients should confirm current session options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life - for example, shorter check-ins during a lunch break, the ability to reflect before replying, or avoiding travel time to an office. These practical benefits often help people keep therapy consistent while balancing daily demands.
Areas of focus
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of concerns does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy issues, and self-esteem struggles, among other concerns listed in her profile.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her approach is collaborative and nonjudgmental. She mixes practical strategies with acceptance and mindfulness and tailors work to each person's needs.
How much experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience as a licensed clinical social worker, offering long-term clinical practice with a range of issues.
Where is she based and what are her credentials?
She practices from Oklahoma and holds the LCSW credential, with licensure noted for OK and TX as provided in her profile.
What languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English.
Can people outside the U.S. work with her?
She accepts international clients according to the profile details provided.
How does cost and billing work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What are the steps to get started?
Click the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.