Mary Yost, LCMHC

Mary Yost is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 29 years of practice. She focuses on helping people facing depression, relationship and intimacy issues, addiction, and struggles with self-esteem. Her style is warm and person-centered and she aims to make therapy direct and understandable for people in stressful life moments.

She draws on methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based Therapy to tailor sessions to each person's needs. That means she helps people notice what matters to them, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and repair connection patterns with others. Sessions are practical and goal-focused while still allowing space to process strong emotions.

Mary has worked across a range of life stages and stresses, including adoption and foster care concerns, caregiver strain, chronic illness, and aging-related challenges. She also supports people dealing with substance use issues, codependency, and aftermaths of separation or loss. Her background makes her comfortable addressing both immediate crises and longer-term personal growth.

In sessions she uses straightforward tools - skills for communication, distress tolerance, and building values-driven routines. She helps people practice small changes that fit into daily life. The work often blends talking, skill-building, and tried techniques from different therapeutic approaches to meet real-world needs.

To get started clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule sessions based on therapist availability. Mary works in New Hampshire and conducts sessions in English.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small meaningful actions even when feelings are difficult. It is useful for depression, low motivation, and long-term life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can ease symptoms of depression and anxiety and improve daily functioning. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people build healthier ways of relating to others.

Finding the right approach is often a collaborative process. Mary will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.

If you are considering online therapy, check the available session options before booking since formats are not specified in the biography. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, shorten check-ins, or allow for spoken-only meetings when video feels like too much. Licensed professionals can use the same ACT, CBT, and attachment-based techniques by adapting exercises and skills to an online setting, helping you practice changes between sessions and apply them to everyday situations.