Mary Jo Ayllon , LPC, LCMHC

Mary Jo Ayllon is a licensed counselor with 12 years of clinical experience who works with individuals and families facing stress, anxiety, grief, parenting challenges, relationship conflicts, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, mood disorders and many other life transitions. She combines goal-focused methods with a warm, motivational style that emphasizes trust, safety and gradual progress. She adapts interventions to each person’s needs and pace, using approaches that include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, attachment-based work, client-centered and humanistic techniques, cognitive behavioral therapy, mindfulness, narrative therapy, solution-focused strategies and trauma-focused interventions.

She brings personal insight as a parent and as a pastor’s wife, and she is able to offer a Biblically integrative option for clients who request faith-informed care. That faith-based approach draws on psychological methods while attending to Christian beliefs about human dignity, brokenness and hope. Mary Jo frames struggles such as betrayal, shame, grief and relational pain within that broader worldview when clients prefer it.

Mary Jo holds professional credentials as LPC and LCMHC - LPC stands for Licensed Professional Counselor and LCMHC stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - and she is licensed to practice in the United States. She typically schedules sessions Monday through Friday in the mornings and early afternoons, and she asks prospective clients to reach out if calendar openings are not visible so scheduling can be explored. She describes beginning therapy as a courageous step toward restoration and greater well-being, and she welcomes conversations about individual goals and fit.

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