Mary Gales-Wenz - Mental Health Counselor | The Center for Internet & Technology Addiction

40 years experience

About Mary Gales-Wenz

Mary Gales-Wenz has been a Licensed Independent Social Worker for 40+ years and has practiced in a variety of Behavioral Health environments during that time. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Social Work she was employed for 20 years with The Department of Veterans Affairs @ both the St. Cloud and Minneapolis hospitals in Outpatient and Inpatient settings.
Her career path after The Department of Veterans Affairs included providing Mental Health services with Hazelden Center for Youth and Families, Allina Behavioral Health Clinics, Central MN Mental Health Clinics, Clinical Supervision of Residential Treatment for Department of Corrections, Behavioral Healthcare Management for a local MN insurance company and maintaining a small private practice since 2009.
Mary has worked with adults, seniors, and adolescents in Chemical Dependency and Mental Health Treatment facilities, addressing PTS, Anxiety, Sexual and Physical
Trauma, Depression diagnoses, to name a few. Mary continues to keep her skills updated in regards to new research and treatment modalities. She has a particular interest in the mind-body connection and therapies that clients better understand this. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy that helps to process the entire emotional and cognitive experience for individuals.

Licenses

LICSW

4518

Professional experience

Addictions
Anger management
Bipolar disorder
Career difficulties
Compassion fatigue
Coping with life changes
Depression
Family conflicts
Grief
LGBT
Self esteem
Sleeping disorders
Stress, Anxiety
Trauma and abuse

Additional Focus Areas

Chronic pain, illness, and disability
Codependency
Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
Domestic violence
Drug and alcohol addiction
Family of origin issues
First responder issues
Guilt and shame
Men's issues
Mood disorders
Post-traumatic stress
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self-harm
Sexual assault and abuse
Somatization
Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Women's issues
Young adult issues

Clinical Approaches

Client-Centered Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
Mindfulness Therapy
Solution-Focused Therapy
Somatic Therapy
Trauma-Focused Therapy

Languages

English

13 Reviews

“I recommend Better Help to people ALL the time. My therapist (Ms. Gales-Wenz), my sessions with her, have changed my entire life, for the better.”

“She has been an amazing source of information and ‘tools’ for helping me get healthy, figure out how my brain works for me, and navigating this wild world we live in!”

“Mary is awesome to work with, can't wait to work with her more”

“Mary shows me that she is actively listening to me and gathering information that she knows will help me in the future.”

“Mary is a phenomenal therapist! She has a calming way about her that makes it easy to open up right away. She provides excellent tools and resources that have a direct impact and align to my needs. Highly recommend Mary!”

“I have had only one session with Mary. With just one session I did appreciate her wealth of knowledge, and she was very resourseful.”

“LOVE this zoom therapy, it has been life changing!”

“Doing an awesome jobs so far. I appreciate it. Very attentive and seems to be an expert in her field.”

“She’s great!”

“Mary is very kind and understanding. She doesn’t put me to talk about things if Im not ready to and she really focused on my healing goals. Mary made me feel safe during our sessions and I always finished a session feeling much better than I did before it. I highly recommend her.”

“My daughter feels this is very helpful and Mary is very understanding and open. She is a great resource!”

“Mary is intuitive and attentive and dives right in the meat which I appreciate”

“Mary has been excellent to work with so far. She listens, understands, and gives reasonable advice. I am so grateful.”

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