Mary Dodge
LMFTA
(She/Her/Hers)
Mary Dodge is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapy Associate in North Carolina. She received her master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from the University of Southern Mississippi and her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Economics from the University of North Carolina.
Mary believes that each person brings their own unique experiences, perspectives, and strengths into therapy. She works collaboratively with individuals and couples to better understand the patterns they find themselves caught in and create meaningful change. Her goal is to create a space where clients feel understood, supported, and empowered to make changes that fit their lives and relationships.
Mary works with adolescents and adults, as well as couples and partners. She has particular experience helping clients navigate premarital concerns, relationship challenges, communication difficulties, anxiety, depression, family relationships, parenting, and sexual concerns. Her work with sex-related concerns includes low desire, differences in desire between partners, pain during sex, and challenges with arousal or orgasm.
With couples, Mary often draws from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) to help partners understand and shift the patterns that keep them feeling stuck. When couples find themselves having the same argument or experiencing the same communication breakdown again and again, EFT can help them identify what is happening beneath those patterns, communicate their needs more clearly, and respond to one another with greater understanding and care.
With individuals, Mary often incorporates Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. EMDR can help people process experiences—whether they were significant or seemingly small—that continue to affect how they feel, think, or respond in the present. Mary helps clients identify the beliefs, emotions, and reactions that may have gotten stuck, and draw on their inner strengths and resources to support growth toward the life they want to live.
Mary has completed basic training in EMDR with an EMDRIA-certified trainer, an Externship in Emotionally Focused Therapy, and Level 1 Training in the Gottman Method Couples Therapy. She is also a trained Prepare/Enrich Facilitator for premarital therapy.
Mary seeks to create a collaborative environment that combines her clinical expertise with each client’s expertise in their own life and experiences, tailoring treatment to their individual goals and needs. In addition to EFT and EMDR, her work incorporates research-based approaches including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Internal Family Systems, and others.
Outside of therapy, Mary enjoys visiting art museums, reading new books, and doing puzzles with her husband.
Mary currently practices in person at our Raleigh location and provides online therapy to clients throughout North Carolina.