HI, I’m Mary Rothfusz.

I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m a clinician, psychology educator, and mindfulness practitioner whose work centers on how people understand themselves, navigate change, and build more sustainable ways to live and work.

My background brings together psychology, mental health counseling, mindfulness, higher education, and more than two decades of experience working with people and organizations. Across these spaces, I’ve stayed interested in the same questions: How do our experiences shape us? What helps people feel more grounded and connected? And how can the systems around us better support human wellbeing?

As a clinician, I work with adults navigating anxiety, trauma, chronic stress, chronic pain, relationships, identity, and life transitions. My approach integrates evidence-based psychology with mindfulness, somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and trauma-informed care.

I’m also a psychology professor and higher education professional. Teaching has become an important extension of my work—creating spaces where students can question what they know, examine how psychological knowledge is produced, and connect classroom learning to the world around them.

My mindfulness work spans individual practice, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), professional education, workshops, and organizational wellness. I’m especially interested in making contemplative practices practical, accessible, and grounded in both evidence and lived experience.

Before moving more fully into clinical practice and higher education, I spent many years leading teams, building programs, and developing organizations. That experience still informs how I think about people, systems, leadership, and sustainable change.

Whether I’m working with a therapy client, teaching a classroom, supporting students, or developing a program, the thread is the same: helping people understand themselves and the systems they move through with greater clarity, agency, and care.