Mary Acosta-Granger
Experienced LCSW helping adults find clearer communication
LCSW Texas
- Experience
- 39 years in practice
- Focus areas
- Stress, Anxiety, Relationship, Family
- Approaches
- Gottman Method, Client-Centered Therapy
- Languages
- English, Spanish
About Mary
Mary Acosta-Granger is an LCSW who focuses on helping adults who want clearer communication and greater emotional balance. She brings nearly four decades of clinical experience and a calm, straightforward style to sessions.
Background and approach
Mary speaks both English and Spanish and works with people facing common and complex life stresses. Mary listens closely to each person's story and helps set simple, realistic goals.
She uses practical strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy to challenge unhelpful thoughts and build new habits. Client-Centered Therapy guides her stance in the room, so clients feel heard and respected while they make changes.
Her work often addresses anxiety, depression, relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, anger, and life transitions. She also offers support for parenting strain, caregiver stress, blended family challenges, aging and geriatric issues, and multicultural concerns.
Communication skills and commitment issues are frequent topics in her sessions. Mary prefers to work with adults who are motivated to change.
She tailors each plan to the person in front of her, combining structured techniques with a collaborative, interactive approach. She has long experience with serious mental illness as well as everyday struggles, and adapts her methods to what each person needs.
Sessions are practical and focused on small, achievable steps. Mary aims to make therapy a useful part of daily life, helping people manage symptoms and build more satisfying relationships and routines.
Approaches Used Online and What They Do
Mary blends the Gottman Method's focus on communication with Client-Centered Therapy to create a respectful, collaborative space for relationship and personal issues. The Gottman Method emphasizes small, practical communication skills and routines that help reduce conflict and increase connection. Client-Centered Therapy centers the person's experience and emphasizes empathy and unconditional regard so people feel heard as they work on goals.Mary also uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, which helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that maintain anxiety, depression, and other concerns. CBT is useful for building concrete skills and tracking progress together. She will talk with each person to decide which approaches fit their goals and preferences, adapting methods over time as needs change in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered via video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make scheduling easier and to fit different communication styles. Video is helpful when visual cues matter, phone can be useful with limited bandwidth, and chat or messages work well for brief check-ins or when typing is easier. These options give flexibility for working around busy days, caregiving duties, or travel while keeping regular contact with a licensed professional.
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Experience
39+ years
Licensed in
Texas
Languages
English, Spanish