Mary Blankenburg, LISW

Mary Blankenburg, LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker), brings decades of clinical experience to her psychotherapy work, combining a deep understanding of emotional history with practical, trauma-informed interventions. She emphasizes the healing potential of the therapeutic relationship and builds collaborative alliances that allow exploration of feelings, attachment patterns, and life narratives. Her background includes work in community mental health settings, services for adolescents and families, and a long-standing private practice spanning thirty years, offering experience across individual, couples, family, and group formats.

Trained as a dancer, Mary increasingly integrates simple, somatic practices into therapy to attend to links between body and mind. She helps clients develop awareness of autonomic nervous system states so they can recognize signals of safety and use trauma-focused skills to shift how the past is experienced in the present. Techniques she uses include EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), gentle movement interventions, and a range of approaches grounded in developmental, cognitive, and attachment frameworks.

Mary works with people facing depression, anxiety, symptoms related to personality patterns, and the effects of trauma, with an orientation toward healing and post-traumatic growth. Her practice supports clients in cultivating greater self-kindness and in gently addressing trauma-related impacts. The work is acknowledged as challenging but ultimately rewarding, and she guides each person through a paced, compassionate process toward greater resilience and well-being.