M.A., LPC & LMFT Supervisor, LCDC, Mediator
Counseling for Individuals & Couples, Discernment Counseling, Divorce Coaching, Family & Divorce Mediation, Co-Parenting Counseling, and Parent Facilitation
I’m Mary Sanger, a seasoned therapist based in Dallas, Texas. My passion lies in nurturing relationships and fostering healing, whether it is with couples, families, co-parents, or individuals. Life, after all, is fundamentally about connections and relationships.
My services:
- Therapy: I help clients (individual, couples, families) with various relationship issues, including infidelity, communication difficulties, conflict resolution, codependency, and navigating relationships with challenging individuals.
- Consultation and assessment: I provide guidance and support to families and businesses seeking to understand and address emotional, mental health, or substance use issues.
- Conflict Resolution: I help people find a peaceful solution to their disputes.
- Divorce Coaching: I help people navigating the emotionally difficult, and sometimes long, process of divorce.
- Mediation: I offer party only family and divorce mediation services to facilitate peaceful and efficient transitions.
- Collaborative Divorce: I act as a mental health neutral in the collaborative divorce process.
- Parenting Plans: I help separating or divorcing parents create individualized detailed parenting plans.
- Parent Facilitation (court ordered): I help parents shift from “litigation mode” to “cooperation mode”, giving you the space and the opportunity to come to lasting agreements on points of conflict.
- Parent Co-ordination: I help co-parents manage their parenting plan, improve communication, and resolve disputes.
Whether you’re seeking to:
- Improve your communication
- Heal from infidelity
- Navigate co-parenting challenges
- End a relationship with minimal conflict
- Manage personal struggles impacting your relationships
- Create an individualized and unique parenting plan
- Learn how to manage conflict
My approach:
I draw inspiration from Bowen Family Systems Theory and the work of Dr. David Schnarch. These views center on the concept of developing higher levels of self-differentiation. “A person with a well-differentiated “self” recognizes his realistic dependence on others, but he can stay calm and clear headed enough in the face of conflict, criticism, and rejection to distinguish thinking rooted in a careful assessment of the facts from thinking clouded by emotionality. “ The Bowen Center For Studies. I am certified as a mediator with specific training in family law mediation. My therapeutic style is open, gentle and respectful, but direct. I assume my clients come to work with me because they are looking for help in changing something that is no longer working for them or that they haven’t been able to solve on their own.
Additional information:
Finding the “right” therapist for you and your situation can feel overwhelming. However, this is an important step toward supporting you, your child, and your family system in the therapeutic process. My hope is that you can learn more about me, as a human and as a therapist, to determine if we are the right fit.
- I founded Insights Collaborative Therapy Group in 2011 and in 2016 became one of the three partners we still have today.
- I’m a member of various professional associations, including the Texas Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, the Texas Counseling Association, the Dallas Metro Association for Counseling, and Collaborative Divorce Texas.
- I’m the author of “Ready to Talk: A Companion Guide to Psychotherapy”.
- I’m certified in Family Law Mediation Services and the Collaborative Divorce Process.
- I’ve owned and operated three other businesses in my life time.
- Counseling is a second career for me. I originally went to school for interior design and at some point contemplated becoming a lawyer but decided being married to one was enough.
- I enjoy walking, entertaining, playing games, my dog Sophie, and taking a summer vacation every year with my brother.
- My husband and I started a book club 25 years ago and have met almost every month since that time, sometimes we have all read the book too, but certainly we always enjoy a good meal together.
My rate is $250 for a 50-minute individual session; first time individual sessions are $375 and are 80 minutes. I see couples and families for 80-minutes at a rate of $375. My mediation rate is $600 per party for 4-hour sessions. Each additional hour costs $150 per party. Texas Licensed Professional Counselor (Supervisor) (#63701) Texas Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (Supervisor) (#201295) Texas Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (#10981). Click here to request an appointment.
A quote that resonates with me:
It’s not a matter of peeling away the layers but of developing them — growing ourselves up to be mature and resourceful adults who can solve our current problems. -- Dr. David Schnarch