Mary Lee Palmer, LCSW, CSW
Georgia · 41 years in practice
Mary Lee Palmer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with over 41 years of experience.
License and registration
- LCSW, Georgia
- CSW000534 · expires September 2026
- NPI
- 1700976776 · national provider identifier
- Years in practice
- 41
- Languages
- English
Details are as listed on the therapist's public professional profile. You can check the license with the issuing state board, and the NPI with the national registry.
About Mary
Mary Lee Palmer is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Georgia with over 41 years of experience. She offers a warm, interactive style that aims to help people facing relationship strains, depression, anxiety, grief, and issues around intimacy and parenting. She uses Emotionally-Focused Therapy to look at how feelings affect connection and healing.
Mary Lee also draws on client-centered and cognitive behavioral methods to tailor sessions to each person’s needs.
Background and approach
Her approach is down-to-earth and often includes mindfulness and psychodynamic ideas when they fit the situation. Her background includes work in psychiatric hospitals and independent practice. She led parent and adolescent groups and directed child and adolescent services at hospitals in Atlanta, gaining long experience with a wide age range of people.
Mary Lee has supported individuals dealing with trauma, chronic mental health conditions such as bipolar disorder, addiction, and complex family dynamics. She emphasizes respect, sensitivity, and compassion rather than labels, and she aims to make therapy feel approachable and practical. In sessions she helps people talk through stress, anger, codependency, commitment worries, communication problems, and life changes.
She also works with concerns like sleep disruption, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and questions around sexuality and alternative sex culture. Her practice focuses on understanding each person’s story and shaping a plan that fits their goals.
Focus areas and approaches
Everything Mary lists on their public professional profile, in their own terms.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Trauma and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Parenting issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trichotillomania
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Mary names
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
Naming an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist lists and does not check training records.
Online support
How Emotion-Focused and Practical Therapies Work Online
Emotionally-Focused Therapy looks at how feelings shape relationships and connection. Online sessions can use EFT to help people name emotions, understand attachment patterns, and rebuild trust or closeness in relationships.Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's experience and aims to create a respectful, accepting space. Over video or chat this approach lets the therapist follow the client's lead and respond to what matters most to them in the moment.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps people notice thought patterns and try different behaviors. CBT works well online for issues like anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with life changes because it often includes concrete skills and homework between sessions.
Choosing the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before, then adapt methods across EFT, client-centered work, CBT, or mindfulness so the plan fits the person.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues, phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be a good shorter check-in, and live chat or text messaging lets people send updates, ask quick questions, or maintain momentum between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or travel schedules.
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Questions people ask
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She supports people with relationship issues, addictions, depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, parenting concerns, intimacy matters, and stress related to caregiving or chronic illness.
What is her therapeutic style like?
Her style is warm and interactive, often playful, and focused on respect and sensitivity. She blends approaches to match what a person needs in the room.
How many years has she practiced?
She brings 41 years of clinical experience from work in psychiatric hospitals and independent practice, including leadership of child and adolescent services and group programs.
Where is she licensed and based?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with credentials LCSW and CSW and practices in Georgia.
Which languages are supported for sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients when that fits scheduling and logistics.
What formats are available for sessions?
She meets with clients by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to accommodate different needs and schedules.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin if I want to work with her?
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