Mary Hargarten, LCSW, LMFT

Mary Hargarten is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) based in Wisconsin. She has 25 years of experience offering in-person and online therapy. She works with people facing anxiety, depression, panic attacks, relationship strain, grief, anger, and life stage changes.

Mary helps clients identify strengths they already have and build practical coping skills. She often looks at how family of origin beliefs shape current behavior. Sessions include straightforward conversations about what is working and what needs to change.

Her approach mixes structured skill work with open discussion. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is used to connect thoughts, feelings, and actions. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices support handling difficult feelings that won’t quickly go away.

She also uses solution-focused methods to set clear goals and motivational interviewing to tap into personal reasons for change. Bowen family-systems ideas may come up when family patterns affect current problems.

Mary often helps people manage problems like low self-esteem, intimacy-related concerns, caregiver stress, and communication problems. She has long experience with issues tied to trauma, domestic violence, and sexual abuse, and with challenges around aging and postpartum depression.

Her style is down-to-earth and direct. She treats clients as partners in deciding what works. To start, clients follow the site’s matching steps and schedule a first session to see how the approach fits their needs.

How her approaches work for online sessions