I am licensed in Colorado with 17 years of professional work experience. I have experience in helping clients with stress and anxiety, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, & motivation, self esteem, and confidence. I believe that you are the expert of your story and that you have many strengths that will assist you in overcoming things that challenge you. It takes courage to seek out a more fulfilling and happier life and to take the first steps towards a change. I am here to support & empower you in that journey.
Additional areas of focus: Addictions, Relationship issues, Intimacy-related issues, Eating disorders, Anger management, Career difficulties, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Adoption and Foster Care, Aging and Geriatric Issues, Attachment issues, Blended Family Issues, Body image, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Co-morbidity, Commitment Issues, Control issues, Coping with Natural or Human-Caused Disaster, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD), Dissociation, Domestic Violence, Eating and Food-Related Issues, Emptiness, Family of Origin Issues, Family Problems, Fertility Issues, First Responder Issues, Forgiveness, Guilt and shame, HIV / AIDS, Hoarding, Hospice and End of Life Counseling, Impulsivity, Intellectual Disability, Isolation / loneliness, Jealousy, Life purpose, Midlife crisis, Military and Veterans Issues, Mood disorders , Obsessions, Compulsions, and OCD, Panic disorder and panic attacks, Paranoia, Phobias, Postpartum Depression, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy and childbirth, Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), Self-Harm, Sexual Assault and Abuse, Social anxiety and phobia, Somatization, Trichotillomania, Women's issues, Workplace issues, Young Adult Issues
Clinical approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Mindfulness Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, Trauma-Focused Therapy
CO LCSW 0000459
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Mary Shatzer. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
Mary is a wonderful listener and helpful guide. She exhibits all of the compassionate and thoughtful qualities one would hope for in a counselor or therapist.
Written on Oct 12, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, addictions, relationship issues, trauma and abuse, grief, intimacy-related issues, sleeping disorders, coping with life changes, coaching, compassion fatigue, and adhd
I have a lot going on and she has ways of helping me allow myself to take one thing at a time. She listens and makes me feel like I'm doing ok. Like I will be a better me at the end of this.
Written on Aug 29, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, grief, parenting issues, self esteem, anger management, coping with life changes, and adhd
Mary has been amazing, she is so supportive, compassionate and has made me feel taken care of during therapy
Written on Jul 25, 2023 after therapy with Mary for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, and eating disorders