Mari A. Lee is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) who is recognized for her clinical and mindfulness-based work with sex addicts, betrayed spouses, and couples healing from infidelity.
Mari is also the founder of Growth Counseling Services located in Glendora, California where she helps individuals and couples heal from addiction and betrayal trauma and complex trauma. She is a Certified Mindfulness Based Addiction Therapist and Supervisor (MBATT-CS), a Gottman trained couples’ therapist, an EMDR trained therapist, a Certified Sex Addiction Therapist and Supervisor (CSAT-S), a Certified Partners Trauma Therapist and Supervisor, (CPTT-S), and is a member of the faculty and ethics board with the International Institute of Trauma and Addiction Professionals.
Additionally, Mari is a trusted business coach and supervisor with 32 years of business experience. She is the founder of The Counselor’s Coach and provides coaching, consulting, supervision, clinical materials, and dedicated support to mental health professionals across the U.S. and around the world.
Finally, Mari is a popular national speaker and keynote on topics of addiction, betrayal trauma and women’s issues. She is the co-author of ,“Facing Heartbreak: Steps to Recovery for Partners of Sex Addicts”, and the author of, “Healing Betrayal”, and "The Creative Clinician”, and a contributing author to “Behavioral Addictions: Criteria, Evidence and Treatment.” Her next book, “The Gift in the Wound: Stories of Resiliency and Hope” will be out in 2022.