About Mary
Mary Yost is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with 29 years of experience. She uses a somatic-informed, person-centered approach to help people find steadier footing during hard times. Sessions are practical and down-to-earth, aimed at making day-to-day life feel more manageable.
Mary often works with people coping with depression and struggles around intimacy and relationships. She also supports those dealing with addiction and low self-esteem. She pays attention to how emotions show up in the body as well as in thoughts and behaviour.
Background and approach
Her background covers many life situations, including adoption and foster care experiences, caregiver stress, chronic illness and cancer-related challenges. She also helps people with attachment concerns, communication problems, body image, and the impacts of separation or divorce. Her practice includes work with drug and alcohol addiction and codependency patterns.
Mary blends approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Attachment-Based work, and client-centered listening. She aims to tailor tools to each person, using breath, movement awareness, talk, and practical skills when helpful. Sessions focus on small, useful changes that add up over time.
Mary practices in New Hampshire as NH LCMHC 2160. Sessions are offered in English and take place online through video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone with an appropriate path forward.
How somatic and evidence-based approaches work online
Mary blends somatic-informed work with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based techniques to address emotional and relational concerns. Somatic-informed work helps people notice where stress lives in the body and learn simple practices to reduce tension and increase awareness. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on clarifying values and taking small committed actions while learning to accept difficult thoughts and feelings. Attachment-Based work looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connection styles and communication, useful for intimacy and relationship struggles.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to try techniques and see what fits their needs and goals. Over time the plan can shift based on what feels most helpful for emotion regulation, behaviour change, or relationship repair.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for deeper conversation and body awareness work, phone can be simpler when bandwidth is low, and chat or text works well for brief check-ins or moments between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or medical schedules while still using practical, approach-driven tools.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Intimacy-related issues
Also works with
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- New Hampshire
- Languages
- English