Mary Thomason, LLPC

Mary Sarah Thomason, M.A., L.L.P.C., A.T.R.-P., is a counselor and art therapist, ceremonialist, Reiki Master and integrative energy worker, birth and death doula, visual artist, and performer. Mary brings these different ways of knowing into a holistic, client-centered approach to healing that honors the body, soul, mind, and spirit. She works primarily with adults and has a particular passion for working with women, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and people navigating trauma, PTSD, grief, anxiety, depression, identity, relational challenges, and personality-related concerns.

Mary is the creator of Integrative Experiential Theory and the Integrative Experiential Continuum (IET/IEC), an emerging framework for understanding holistic healing through the integration of somatic, emotional, relational, cognitive, symbolic, and spiritual experience. Her work begins with the body—supporting regulation and a deeper felt sense of safety—and expands into connection with self, others, community, spirit, and life. Through art therapy, mindfulness, somatic and body-based practices, parts-informed work, and other expressive and symbolic approaches, Mary supports clients in making meaning of their experiences and developing greater freedom and flexibility in how they move through the world.

Mary’s work is also deeply informed by lived experience. Having navigated mental health struggles since childhood, suicidality, addiction, trauma, profound grief, and her own ongoing processes of healing and transformation, she understands healing as more than something learned from a textbook. These experiences inform the compassion and humanity she brings into the therapeutic relationship while honoring that every client’s story, meaning, and path belong uniquely to them.

At the heart of Mary’s work is the belief that healing is not about becoming someone else or learning to perfectly control ourselves. It is about developing the safety and capacity to experience life more fully—to move with our emotions rather than against them, reconnect with the parts of ourselves that have been silenced or lost, experience greater connection, meaning, and joy, and allow our most authentic selves to live more freely, both within ourselves and in the world.