Mary Jo Ayllon, LPC, LCMHC

Mary Jo Ayllon is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 12 years of clinical experience. She practices from a faith-informed perspective and aims to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and everyday habits like unhelpful thinking patterns. Her approach is practical and down-to-earth, with attention to a person’s values and daily routines.

She focuses on common life challenges including parenting struggles, workplace stress, relationship worries, and adjusting to life changes. She also supports people facing trauma, obsessive thoughts and behaviors, ADHD, body image concerns, and postpartum issues. Mary Jo notes multicultural concerns and effects of racism among the issues she addresses.

Her style centers on building trust and motivation so people can set realistic goals and move at their own pace. Mary Jo combines cognitive behavioral ideas with acceptance-based and mindfulness tools. She also uses attachment-based and client-centered ways of working to help people reflect on patterns and make steady changes.

Mary Jo describes a faith-based option for those who want it, integrating biblical perspectives alongside psychological approaches. That option is offered when clients ask for it and aims to connect spiritual resources with clinical goals. She balances goal-focused work with respect for each person’s beliefs and timing.

Mary Jo practices with credentials in Georgia and North Carolina as an LPC and LCMHC and works with English-speaking adults in North Carolina. To begin, she asks people to complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session.

Therapeutic approaches and online support

Mary Jo often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and daily habits that keep them stuck. CBT focuses on practical steps and experiments people can try between sessions to reduce anxiety or low mood.

She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, which combines mindfulness with values-driven action. ACT helps people accept difficult feelings while making room to act on what matters most. Attachment-based ideas are used to look at relational patterns and how early connections shape current relationships and reactions.

Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Mary Jo will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what feels most useful. Together they decide which methods to focus on and adjust those choices as work progresses.

Confirm current online session options before booking, as specific formats are not listed here. Many people find online sessions help fit therapy into a busy life by reducing travel time, allowing shorter check-ins during a workday, or avoiding camera use when preferred. The therapist will discuss practical scheduling and format preferences when you begin.