Mary Yost, LCMHC

Mary Yost is a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor (LCMHC) practicing in New Hampshire with 29 years of clinical experience. She works with people dealing with depression, addictions, relationships, intimacy-related concerns, and low self-esteem. Mary also lists work with codependency and a broad range of related life stressors.

She uses several approaches in her work, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). Sessions focus on practical steps people can try between meetings, clearer communication, and finding values that guide decisions. Mary likes to break big problems into smaller, manageable tasks.

Her background includes long-term practice across life stages. That experience shows up when she helps clients handle caregiver stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care issues, aging concerns, and recovery from substance use. She also supports people facing body image worries, emptiness, or disruption after separation and divorce.

In a typical session Mary will listen to what matters most, help name patterns that keep causing pain, and suggest concrete skills to shift those patterns. She uses exercises from acceptance and cognitive behavioral approaches alongside attachment-focused conversations to address relationship and intimacy concerns.

People who find it hard to say no, who keep putting others first, or who struggle around someone else’s drinking or mood may find her approach useful. To begin, a short matching questionnaire and a scheduled first session are the steps she asks new clients to follow.

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