Mary Earls

Years of hospital-based outpatient work and community mental health practice have shaped Mary Earls into a clinician who understands the difference between managing symptoms and genuinely supporting a person. Now in private practice in Peterborough, Ontario, she holds dual credentials as a Registered Social Worker — work that reflects both the breadth of her training and the depth of her commitment to ethical, reflective care. Her clinical focus currently centres on providing psychotherapy to individuals eligible for Non-Insured Health Benefits (NIHB), and she also offers supervision for social workers and registered psychotherapists looking to grow with intention.

Mary works with individuals, couples, families, and groups navigating anxiety, mood and depressive disorders, trauma, addiction, abuse recovery, and the particular pressures that show up when a teenager’s sense of self is being shaped as much by what’s happening on their phone as by what’s happening at home. Her therapeutic toolkit draws on DBT — in which she holds intensive certification through Behaviour Tech — alongside CBT, mindfulness-based approaches, and narrative and interpersonal therapies. She doesn’t work from a fixed script; instead, she builds from each client’s own strengths, circumstances, and goals.

Mary brings a holistic lens to every aspect of her practice, holding the relationship between body, mind, and lived experience as central. Clients tend to experience her as grounded, genuine, and present — qualities she actively cultivates inside and outside the therapy room. Online sessions are available.