Dr. Mary Moran, LCSW

Dr. Mary Moran is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) based in Washington who brings two decades of experience in mental health and substance use treatment to her practice. She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Missouri, a Master of Social Work from the University of Georgia, and a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. Over the course of her career she has also supervised social workers and mental health counselors for more than 12 years, and she has recently pursued additional training in trauma-informed approaches.

Her work integrates several therapeutic traditions to meet each client’s needs. She frequently uses cognitive-behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking patterns, draws on psychodynamic and reality-oriented ideas to explore personal meaning, and employs structural family therapy when relationships and family systems are central concerns. She also utilizes spiritually-centered and solution-focused interventions and grounds her practice in family systems and feminist theory.

Dr. Moran approaches therapy as a collaborative process - she partners with clients to set clear goals and to consider both internal thoughts and the larger environmental factors that affect wellbeing. Her clinical interests include stress and anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, relationship and family issues, grief, caregiver and aging concerns, ADHD, and compassion fatigue, among other areas of focus.