Mary Blair, LPC

Mary Blair is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in South Dakota with 18 years of experience. She has worked as a psychotherapist, consultant, and hospice and hospital chaplain. Her work has focused on concerns such as grief and loss, life transitions, anxiety, depression, trauma history, parenting, and relationship challenges.

Mary blends different approaches when she works with people. She uses client-centered methods to let the person’s priorities guide sessions. She also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at long-standing patterns, and somatic approaches to include body-based awareness.

Sessions often start by listening to what the person wants to address now. Mary pays attention to how thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations interact. She helps people notice patterns that keep recurring and offers practical ways to respond differently in everyday life.

When grief, parenting strain, or changes at home feel overwhelming, she breaks concerns into manageable steps. Conversations cover communication, decision points, and coping skills for stress and anxiety. There is room to discuss career, eating issues, or exhaustion from caregiving roles as they affect daily life.

Mary also works with complex trauma and compassion fatigue, including issues tied to abandonment, attachment, and end-of-life concerns. Her background in hospice and hospital chaplaincy informs how she talks about loss and meaning. People who prefer a thoughtful, steady pace and a mix of talk and body-focused work often find this approach fits them.

How her approaches translate to online work