Mary Blankenburg, LISW

Mary Blankenburg, LISW (Licensed Independent Social Worker), brings a deep commitment to the therapeutic relationship and a long history of clinical practice to her work. She emphasizes forming strong therapeutic alliances and connecting with people while exploring their emotional lives and histories. Over the course of her career she has provided individual, couples, family, and group therapy across community mental health settings, programs serving adolescents and their families, and in private practice for thirty years, drawing on nearly four decades of experience in the field.

Trained as a dancer, she increasingly integrates simple mind-body practices into psychotherapy to support healing and well-being. She works with people experiencing depression and anxiety as well as those with personality disorder traits, always attending to the effects of trauma and the potential for post traumatic growth. Her approach helps clients develop awareness of their autonomic nervous system states so they can recognize cues of safety and apply trauma-focused skills.

Mary uses trauma-informed methods such as EMDR and gentle movement to shift how past toxic experiences relate to a person’s present life, and she addresses ongoing concerns through developmental, cognitive, and attachment-based frameworks. She supports clients in cultivating greater self-kindness and gently remediating trauma effects, acknowledging that this work can be challenging but also deeply rewarding.