Mary Lee Palmer, LCSW, CSW

Mary Lee Palmer is a licensed clinical social worker with four decades of practice. She brings a warm, interactive style to sessions and aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Her approach is conversational and often a little playful to help people open up and make change.

She focuses on addictions alongside relationship and family concerns, grief, intimacy problems, stress, anxiety, mood disorders, and trauma. She also helps with sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, self-esteem, career issues, and coping with life changes. Additional areas include codependency, commitment and communication problems, chronic illness and pain, and issues related to aging and blended families.

Mary Lee draws on several therapeutic approaches to fit each person’s needs. She uses client-centered work to follow what matters most to the person in the room. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. She also brings emotionally focused and psychodynamic ideas when exploring relationship patterns and past influences.

Her background includes many years in psychiatric hospitals and private practice. She led parent and adolescent groups and directed child and adolescent services during earlier roles in Atlanta. That range of settings has given her experience with people from childhood into later life.

Mary Lee holds the credential LCSW, which stands for Licensed Clinical Social Worker, and CSW. She will work with each person to build a treatment plan based on their situation, goals, and preferences. If someone is ready to make a change, she offers supportive guidance through that process.

Therapeutic approaches and how they work online

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and following what matters most to the person. The therapist creates space for people to tell their story and helps them set goals that feel right. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the connection between thoughts, feelings, and actions and offers practical steps to change unhelpful patterns. Emotionally-focused therapy helps people map and shift patterns in relationships by naming emotions and creating new ways of responding.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels helpful, then suggest techniques to try. Sessions can adapt over time based on results and what the person finds most useful.

The original biography does not list specific online session formats, so confirm current options before booking. In general, online work can make scheduling easier and help therapy fit into a busy life. It can reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins between busy days, and make it easier to keep regular appointments while juggling family, work, or caregiving responsibilities.