Mary Hargarten, LCSW, LMFT

Mary takes a warm, down-to-earth approach and focuses on what will help someone move forward. She emphasizes simple, doable skills people can use between sessions.

Mary helps clients notice how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact and then tries out small changes that can make daily life easier. Mindfulness and acceptance practices are woven into this work to reduce reactivity and build calm moments in stressful days.

Family background matters in her approach. She pays attention to how early relationships shape beliefs and habits, and she helps people sort which patterns still serve them and which to let go.

Therapy includes setting clear, realistic goals and checking progress along the way. Mary describes her style as warm, nonjudgmental, and sometimes humorous.

She aims to understand each person’s experience and to collaborate on strategies that fit their life. Clients are treated as the experts on their own lives while she offers practical therapeutic tools.

Over a long career Mary has worked with a wide range of concerns, including grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy issues, parenting challenges, caregiver stress, mood disorders, and relationship problems. Her practice balances emotional support with concrete steps to help people regain stability and direction.