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Mental Health Blooms in Hope's Presence
Get to Know Mary Beth
Hope to Share Life, PLLC is the private counseling practice of Mary Beth Harbin who is on a mission to create a nurturing environment for safe connection and corrective experiences that foster hope even when all seems lost.
While Mary Beth is a Licensed Professional Counselor, she's first and foremost a real person who knows real struggle and survival, failure and success, hurt and hope. The sum total of all her life experiences, both clinical and personal, inspire her to be careful and intentional to take the light of hope that she has found into the most dark, hidden, and secret spaces of the human experience.
She delicately balances boldness with gentleness, interdependency with healthy boundaries, and utter disappointment with unshakable hope.
Mary Beth considers her work as a counselor her ministry and adheres to a Christian faith commitment. While this spiritual view of the physical world influences Mary Beth's approach to both life and counseling, she demonstrates genuine respect and care for all individuals and walks of life including those who do not share her same faith commitment.
Experiences that Rebuild Trust
Mary Beth believes that fear and mistrust are not created in a vacuum; they are created in relationship. For example, when betrayal, heartbreak, or loss enter a relationship, trusting oneself, others, and even God can be experienced as overwhelming fear or impossible hills to climb or get over.
She says it's in that space of wondering, "How did I not see this coming?" and thinking "I can't trust you", "I can't trust me", and "I can't trust God", that our world can begin to feel small, that we can begin to behave as if we are small, and we can even begin to question why our big, good, and intimate God seems so small, distant, and unloving.
Yet, in that very same space, the desert place where loss, abandonment, and betrayal appear to rein and flourish, Mary Beth affirms that we are meant to bloom. That's why she bears witness to this simple truth:
People are surely harmed in relationship, but they are also just as assuredly healed in relationship.
Therefore, while being harmed in relationship can be deeply wounding, the marks are not irreparable. Ultimately, those very same marks can be evidence of one's survival, growth, and resilience.
Hope Blooms Here
Mary Beth considers counseling a sacred invitation into the hurts and hopes of courageous overcomers and resilient survivors of abuse, betrayal, chaos, dysfunction, and addiction. She demonstrates genuine care for the heaviness of burdens that individuals carry from invisible scars marked by loneliness, shame, regret, and loss.
Working with individuals who are sometimes labeled "different", "soft", "emotional", and "weak" is one of Mary Beth's highest privileges on this side of heaven. She feels impassioned about helping those who cannot easily "shake off", "just get over", "not think about", and "forget" what others appear to accomplish yet they cannot.
Mary Beth is passionate about helping those who have been harmed by the hurts of the world and journeying with them collaboratively to help them recover what has been lost or diminished like self-esteem, inherent worth, sense of self, belonging, identity, purpose, safety, and healthy emotional connection.
She understands that when people begin to feel heard, seen, and valued in the therapeutic relationship, a corrective experience occurs. The safety found in this space makes rooms for new insights that attend to the wounds left by others.
With new awareness, hope blooms to empower voice and choice as buds of newfound peace and long-awaited joy also begin to blossom.