I’m Mary Dobson
WRITER | SPEAKER | FOUNDER
Licensed Psychotherapist, Certified Eating Disorder Specialist, + Certified Trauma Specialist
Ready to take back your truest self?
My passion is to empower women to reveal their true selves, path, and purpose by exposing and challenging the limitations of outdated internalized belief systems that no longer serve them.
In my clinical work, supervision, and trainings, I act as an instrument similar to a compass, not defining what direction is meant for you but reflecting back to you what is already real and existent.
From patient to provider, trainer, speaker, and writer
My background as a systems researcher, serial entrepreneur, female employer, mother, and woman in a perpetual state of self-reclamation has led to a patient-centered lens in all I do.
A holistic, integrative approach that removes the barriers of the past so people find more joy, vibrance, meaning, purpose, freedom, peace, and power in the present and future.
As a leader curating a team in an industry where burnout is almost inevitable, I’m fiercely committed to creating and fostering nurturing spaces for restorative rehabilitation that are community-driven.
When I’m not leading my thirty-person team, I’m exploring mental health research to shape my clinical practice, advancing new research, and presenting within communities to advance my mission of normalizing mental health support.
With both a novel certification in school-based systems psychology and time running large healthcare corporations, I can speak with insight into the ins and outs of the health of education systems, corporate, and organizational systems as fluently as I do family systems.
Individuals and teams of professionals across industries and trades attend my keynotes as I can attest with sensitivity and levity, to the trials of being a ground-level entrepreneur and executive, juggling parenthood, burnout culture, and the tightrope that is modern life as a career woman in America.
In workplaces and communities, I assist leaders in analyzing and strategically improving systems using principles drawn from industrial/organizational psychology. Whether working on behalf of family systems, educational systems, healthcare systems, school systems, or leadership teams, my mission is always the same: to help organizations function better as a collective whole while attending to their members' individual growth and development.
When team members become self-aware and reveal their strengths, weaknesses, vulnerabilities, liabilities, fears, hopes, and dreams, organizations function more effectively and harness far greater power than ever before.
No matter your origin, it’s never too late to dig in and reclaim your true self.
From masking behind perfectionism to discovering your goals, path, purpose, and talents.
When we resume ownership of self, coming to acknowledge, accept, and even love the not-so-glossy parts, we begin to see others with expansiveness and compassion, which leads to a more peaceful world.
We make decisions in the present moment versus reacting to past shame, generational trauma, or harmful experiences.
Without this work, you will spend your whole life avoiding by staying busy, consuming, and numbing out. You will live your present and precious future days living out your life as a reaction and a response to your history rather than your own intuitive free will.
The theme of my work is creating spaces that empower others to Recover Self.
Mary Dobson is a nationally recognized box-breaker and truth-teller.
Founder of LIFT Wellness Company, a national outpatient behavioral health platform with brick-and-mortar services in Westport, CT – Boca Raton, FL – Fairfax, Virginia.
Founder of Lift Teen and Parent Wellness Centers, an OPCC, IOP/PHP for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders, ages 10-18
Founder of LiftWell, a day treatment program OPCC, IOP/PHP for mood, anxiety, and eating disorders, ages 18+
Keynote speaker for Connecticut Women’s Consortium, FindingYou retreats, and Apex International Education Partners, Inc.
Regular presenter to schools, universities, corporations, and city government on health and wellness, performance, motivation, leadership
Excellence in EAP program design and corporate wellness programming
Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy from Fairfield University (Psi Chi, Phi Beta Kappa)
Post-graduate Education Certification in Systemic School-based Mental Health Intervention Services (Endorsement Code #268, Educator ID: #5662299128)
Offerings
lift wellness
A nationwide holistic, integrative center offering tailored mental health therapy, psychiatric care, neuropsychological testing, nutrition services, wellness coaching, and empowerment to individuals, groups, and families.
Mary Dobson is the Founder and Clinical Director of LIFT Wellness, a comprehensive brick-and-mortar and virtual wellness center uniquely designed to integrate mental and physical health, addressing the whole person. LIFT offers personalized mental health therapy and wellness coaching that empowers clients to reclaim their well-being. Whether you’re struggling with trauma, anxiety, or just seeking balance, LIFT provides a safe and supportive environment where healing and transformation can begin. We believe true wellness comes from addressing the mind, body, and spirit—so you can reclaim your life.
Speaking
Take your community on a journey to Recover Self–for more authenticity, empowerment, and deep fulfillment.
Mary Dobson is a transformative speaker who empowers women to reclaim their true selves. Her talks challenge internalized expectations, offering women the tools to break free from the simulated to embody their authentic selves. Each keynote is tailored to your event, focusing on self-recovery, authenticity, and empowerment. Mary delivers with directness, humor, and compassion, ensuring that every audience leaves inspired and equipped to take actionable steps toward personal transformation.
Liftwell health
A licensed, structured, freestanding psychiatric facility offering outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospitalization day therapy programs to children, adolescents, and adults with mental health and eating disorders in Westport, CT.
Reclaim Your True Self
Are you ready to take the first step toward reclaiming your authentic self? Enter your email below to instantly download The Self Recovery Guide—a powerful tool to help you uncover the hidden aspects of your identity and begin your journey toward living authentically.
This comprehensive guide will help you explore and reconnect with the most important areas of your life:
Relationship to Self
Uncover how your relationship with yourself influences every aspect of your life. Learn to embrace all parts of who you are and stop living for external validation.
Joy
Discover what truly brings you happiness. Break free from societal expectations to find the activities, relationships, and experiences that genuinely light you up.
Spiritual life
Reconnect with your inner wisdom and spiritual beliefs, whether they’ve been hidden, neglected, or forgotten. Cultivate a sense of inner peace and alignment with your higher self.
Purpose
Gain clarity on your deeper calling. This guide will help you reconnect with your true purpose, giving you the direction and motivation to live more intentionally.
identity
Strip away the layers of who you think you should be and explore who you truly are at your core—your values, passions, and authentic self.
Take the first step toward recovering your true self and living a life that feels authentic, fulfilling, and unapologetically yours.