The Wellbeing Hive: Compassionate, Evidence Based Care for Authentically Earned Competence, Connection, and Confidence .
Welcome to the Wellbeing Hive. We believe in creating meaningful experiences that not just inspire but create growth, learning and connection in the here and now. Let us help you bring your vision of a well lived life into action in real time today. Providing specialized clinical consultations, case coordination, in vivo exposure therapy and community integration, individual therapy and vocational and relationship coaching for individuals, couples, and families navigating the complexities of attaining a balanced, integrated, engaged, industrious, challenging and connected life.
Expert Clinical and Community Integration Care
Individual, Couples, & Family Therapy: A Multi-Modal, Whole-Person Approach
No two healing journeys are identical. In my therapeutic work with individuals, couples, and family units, I blend a deep psychodynamic foundation with highly active, modern, evidence-based treatments to create meaningful and lasting change toward growth and healing. My clinical toolkits include:
- Dialectical & Radically Open Behavioral Therapies (DBT/RO-DBT): Utilizing DBT-informed emotion regulation strategies and RO-DBT to target overcontrol, manage intense emotional states, and build relational openness.
- Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Mindfulness-Based Therapy: Integrating experiential awareness and value-driven action to help you process painful realities while staying anchored in the present moment.
- Mentalization-Based Therapy (MBT): Cultivating your innate ability to understand your own mental states and the internal emotional worlds of others, rapidly shifting reactive relationship dynamics.
- Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP): Delivering gold-standard behavioral interventions to systemically disarm severe anxiety, loops, and obsessive patterns.
I operate from a strengths-based, positive psychology framework and a vocational coaching approach. I firmly believe that comprehensive therapy must address all aspects of your psychological architecture. This includes establishing a meaningful role, career, or purpose; cultivating physical health and vitality; nurturing deep relational health; and honoring your spiritual well-being .Many clinical symptoms—such as addiction, deep depression, or paralyzing anxiety—can be profoundly transformed by actively constructing a life worth living, even while you are still navigating the darkest moments ("in the suck") .As a deeply empathic clinician, I walk the walk: I will never ask you to face an obstacle that I am not willing to face alongside you. Whether it requires hands-on, in vivo exposure therapy, on-the-job vocational coaching, or outdoors walking therapy, I will step into the real world with you. Together, we will do whatever it takes to break down the specific structural barriers to your goals, helping you tolerate and embrace the medicine of change, no matter how challenging it may be.
Community Integration
Traditional office-based therapy often stalls when clients try to apply skills to the real world. Drawing from my years directing pioneering reintegration programs, I partner with clients directly out in the community. Together, we actively break through behavioral quagmires—building real-world routines, establishing educational or vocational goals, navigating social environments, and mastering independent living.
Expert Clinical Consultations and Advanced Case Coordination
🔍 Clinical Consultation
The mental health system can be incredibly overwhelming and difficult to navigate. When engaged as a consultant, I deep-dive into your specific family context, review your clinical history, and provide precise, vetted treatment recommendations. Leveraging my deep roots in Texas clinical networks, I cut through the noise to connect you to trusted, high-tier resources.
🤝 Advanced Case Coordination
Managing multiple providers—such as psychiatrists, dieticians, individual therapists, and coaches—does not automatically mean you have a cohesive team. I step in to actively manage your treatment ecosystem. By facilitating streamlined communication across your entire multidisciplinary team, I ensure your care is unified, safe, and highly effective.
Empowering Young Adults: Transitioning into a Life Worth Living
The leap into emerging adulthood—whether navigating university life, launching a career, or managing independent relationships—can feel completely overwhelming. I specialize in working with young adults who find themselves stuck at this pivotal crossroads.Drawing on my deep experience within higher education and specialized clinical rehabilitation, I provide a launchpad for young adults navigating complex mental health challenges, identity exploration, and academic or vocational transitions. My approach goes beyond traditional talk therapy; I work actively with emerging adults to dismantle barriers to growth, foster emotional resilience, and build the practical, real-world scaffolding required to transition into a rich, self-directed, and fulfilling life.
About Dr. Mary Oxford
Our Mission
Mary Oxford, PhD
Our Approach
At Well Being Hive our mission is to provide compassionate and evidence-based treatments to help our clients achieve their goals and improve their mental health and well-being. We strive to empower individuals, couples, and families to actively cultivate a life worth living. Through a deeply person-centered approach, we demystify complex
At Well Being Hive our mission is to provide compassionate and evidence-based treatments to help our clients achieve their goals and improve their mental health and well-being. We strive to empower individuals, couples, and families to actively cultivate a life worth living. Through a deeply person-centered approach, we demystify complex care by bridging private clinical practice, strategic consultation, and advanced case management. We believe that true, lasting transformation cannot happen in a vacuum—it is built in the real world. By intentionally curating hands-on, immersive experiences, we meet clients exactly where they are to break down barriers to growth. Our goal is to foster the earned competence that naturally breeds unshakeable earned confidence, deep connection, and whole-person healing.
Our Approach
Mary Oxford, PhD
Our Approach
We offer a personalized approach to therapy, tailoring our treatments to meet the unique needs of each client. Our methods include cognitive-behavioral therapy, ACT, mentalizing, and mindfulness-based therapies, emotion regulation and flexibility, ERP, and strengths based and positive psychology interventions all in an attachment and sys
We offer a personalized approach to therapy, tailoring our treatments to meet the unique needs of each client. Our methods include cognitive-behavioral therapy, ACT, mentalizing, and mindfulness-based therapies, emotion regulation and flexibility, ERP, and strengths based and positive psychology interventions all in an attachment and systems based relational frame work .Our team is comprised of experienced and licensed professional counselors and psychologists who are dedicated to providing the highest quality of care to our clients. Learn more about our team and their areas of expertise.
Mary Oxford, PhD
Mary Oxford, PhD
Mary Oxford, PhD
Deep Clinical Expertise, Compassionate GuidanceI
I am Dr. Mary Oxford, a Licensed Psychologist with over two decades of experience treating complex psychiatric challenges across the full continuum of care. Alongside my private practice, The Wellbeing Hive, I served as an Assistant Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, the founder a
Deep Clinical Expertise, Compassionate GuidanceI
I am Dr. Mary Oxford, a Licensed Psychologist with over two decades of experience treating complex psychiatric challenges across the full continuum of care. Alongside my private practice, The Wellbeing Hive, I served as an Assistant Professor at the Baylor College of Medicine, the founder and Program Director of the Pathfinder Community Integration Program at the Menninger Clinic for 20 years, and recently have brought my passion for working with young adults to the Rice University Counseling Center. .Throughout my career—spanning inpatient hospital units, residential treatments, community integration programs, campus wellbeing, and intensive outpatient settings—I have learned that true wellness does not happen in a vacuum. My mission is to help clients and families demystify therapy, navigate opaque mental health systems, and bridge the gap between clinical treatment and a building a functional, engaged and connected independent life worth living.