Mary Knight, LCSW

Mary Knight is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, and major life changes. She draws on 34 years of experience to offer clear, practical support for everyday struggles. Her style is direct but warm, and she aims to help people build coping skills that fit their lives.

Mary keeps sessions focused on what matters most to each person. She works collaboratively to identify worries, set goals, and try small steps that can make a difference. Practical tools are paired with chances to talk through feelings and difficult memories.

Her background includes long experience with addiction recovery, grief and hospice-related concerns, and family and relationship difficulties. She also helps with caregiver stress, chronic illness and pain, and issues like guilt, shame, and codependency. This range of experience informs how she tailors support for each situation.

Mary uses methods drawn from cognitive behavioral therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and client-centered work. Those approaches are mixed to match a person’s goals rather than applied one-size-fits-all. She focuses on skills that people can use between sessions.

Sessions can include short-term coaching-style work or longer therapeutic relationships depending on what a person wants. Mary aims to help people discover strengths, reduce symptoms that interfere with daily life, and find clearer direction about next steps.

Therapeutic approaches and how online sessions help

Mary often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice unhelpful thinking and try different behaviors. CBT is practical and problem-focused, which can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.

She also draws on acceptance and commitment therapy, which helps people accept difficult thoughts and feelings while clarifying what matters most to them. ACT can be helpful for managing chronic pain, grief, and ongoing stress by combining values-based action with mindfulness skills.

Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Mary works together with each person to choose methods that match their goals and preferences. That collaborative process may include trying different tools and checking what helps most over time.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls let people use face-to-face interaction without travel, phone sessions can fit into a work break or need less bandwidth, live chat works for shorter check-ins, and messaging lets someone share updates between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around busy schedules and changing life demands.