Dr. Mary Jane Preece, LPC, LPCC

Dr. Mary Jane Preece is a licensed counselor who uses a client-centered approach to help people manage anxiety, stress, and major life transitions. She holds LPC and LPCC credentials and brings two decades of experience to her work in Ohio. Her style is warm and straightforward, aimed at helping people find practical ways forward.

She focuses on day-to-day problems like workplace stress, caregiver burnout, and relationship patterns. She also helps people facing midlife transitions, grief, chronic illness, and the emotional effects of trauma and abuse. Sessions emphasize clear steps clients can try between meetings.

Her sessions often look at how thoughts and behaviors affect mood, and she uses mindfulness to help clients notice what’s happening in the moment. She also draws on tools that teach emotion regulation and coping skills for strong feelings such as anger or overwhelm. The goal is to build resilience and usable skills.

Dr. Preece works with concerns that include depression, ADHD, self-esteem, parenting stress, and career strain. She also addresses issues like abandonment, attachment struggles, caregiving stress, and codependency. Conversations cover both current problems and how past family patterns show up now.

Her way of working is collaborative; clients set goals and try concrete strategies between sessions. People can expect direct feedback, practical assignments, and attention to strengths that support change over time.

How her approaches fit into online therapy

Dr. Preece often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers on listening and responding to what each person brings. This approach focuses on understanding your experience and shaping sessions around your priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, helps identify unhelpful thoughts and habits and replaces them with practical strategies for managing mood and behavior.

Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. She will collaborate with each person to decide which combination of methods fits best based on goals, symptoms, and preferences. That may mean trying a few techniques and adjusting as needed.

If you are considering online sessions, confirm the available session formats before booking since they are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time. It also lets people use mindfulness and CBT exercises between meetings in the places where they live and work. Licensed professionals can help adapt tools and homework to online visits so progress continues even when schedules are tight.