Psychotherapist.

With expertise in evidence-based approaches to trauma healing, Mary Kay offers individual psychotherapy for adults, with a special focus on older adults (age 60+) and their caregivers. She begins with each client’s unique strengths and goals, drawing on their values to help increase resilience and improve relationships. She is licensed to serve clients who live in Ohio, Illiniois, and Maryland.

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THERAPEUTIC APPROACH

Therapy is an opportunity to work together and discover inner resources to promote healing, growth, and recovery. Mary Kay approaches every client and family with humility, compassion, and respect. She provides client-centered, evidence-based psychotherapy for clients with diverse needs, challenges, and diagnoses.

Mary Kay encourages and supports clients to make use of the resources provided by their faith tradition and spirituality, as appropriate.

 

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

With a strong commitment to promoting peace, social justice, and cross-cultural understanding, Mary Kay has lived overseas in Africa, Asia, and Europe. She brings that personal experience of living overseas to her work with refugees and immigrants, veterans and active military service members and families. Mary Kay has helped clients in law enforcement and working as first responders. Mary Kay has worked with teens and adults in the LGBTQ+ communities.

 

EFFECTIVE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

Mary Kay supports clients to develop and practice skills for improved resilience, coping, interpersonal communication, conflict resolution, stress and anger management, executive functioning, self-care, sleep, and mindfulness.

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EDUCATION AND TRAINING

Mary Kay Rehard, MSW, LISW-S, BCD, holds a Bachelor’s degree from Xavier University and a Master of Social Work degree from University of Cincinnati, where she specialized in direct practice and mental health, with a focus on trauma healing. Mary Kay has had her own private practice since 2016, with intensive training in diverse settings and populations, including older adults, veterans, and caregivers. She is qualified to provide clinical supervision to licensed social workers in training. She is independently licensed as a clinical social worker in three states: Ohio (LISW-S), Illinois (LCSW), and Maryland (LCSW-C). Mary Kay holds the Board Certified Diplomate (BCD No. 60839) from the American Board of Clinical Social Work (ABCSW).

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Areas of Specialty and Expertise:

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)

• Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT)

• Prolonged Exposure (PE)

• Written Exposure Therapy (WET)

• Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT)

• Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

• Exposure Therapy

• Trauma-Focused CBT (TF-CBT)

• Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), trauma, abuse, and neglect

• Depression and mood disorders

• Anxiety and panic disorder

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)

• Chronic pain and chronic health conditions

• End of life, bereavement, grief, and loss

• Coping and stress management skills

• Interpersonal communication and active listening skills

• Anger management and conflict resolution skills

• Parenting skills 

• Time management and executive functioning skills

• Meditation and mindfulness
   

Mary Kay currently offers psychotherapy services on a limited basis,

by Telehealth / Telemedicine ONLY.

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