About Mary
Dr. Mary Torok helps people who are stressed, anxious, or facing big life changes. She works with those coping with depression, grief, addiction, parenting strain, ADHD, and relationship problems.
Dr. Torok is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, LMHC, based in Florida and has 11 years of clinical experience. She favors a straightforward style in sessions.
Conversations focus on practical steps and small experiments clients can try between meetings. She blends evidence-based strategies with listening that centers each person's values and goals.
Background and approach
Her work often uses cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also draws on acceptance-based methods to help people live in line with what matters to them. Dialectical skills are used when emotional regulation and distress tolerance need strengthening.
Dr. Torok pays attention to attachment and family patterns when they influence current problems. She helps people who struggle with abandonment, communication breakdowns, blended family issues, and codependency to notice patterns and try new ways of relating.
Practical supports are part of her approach. She offers coaching-style guidance for career and life transitions and helps clients find community resources when additional support is needed. Sessions aim to be collaborative and focused on real change.
Therapy is offered in English and provided remotely through a mix of video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Prospective clients follow an online matching and scheduling process to begin.
How specific approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while choosing actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking and testing small behavior changes to reduce symptoms like anxiety and low mood. It often includes homework and practical exercises. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, brings skills for regulating strong emotions and improving distress tolerance when feelings feel overwhelming.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to match techniques to their needs and goals. That means trying methods, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan together as progress is tracked.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to fit different needs. Video works well for in-depth sessions and skill practice. Phone can be a better fit when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers audio only. Live chat and text are useful for shorter check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or quick problem-solving between full sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 11 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English