📍 South Carolina – Fredric Mau – Columbia
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1705 Richland Street
Columbia, SC 29201
📞Phone: (803) 750-2000
info@watermarkcolumbia.com
Appointments are required.
Also Available via Live Virtual Sessions 👩💻
Meet Dr. G. Fredric Mau, LPCS, D.Min., NCC, BC-H
Watermark Counseling, LLC
Are Your Emotions or Automatic Reactions Keeping You Stuck?
You may understand the problem clearly but still find yourself reacting in the same familiar way. Stress, fear, habits, and the stories you tell yourself can influence your behavior even when you consciously want something different.
Dr. G. Fredric Mau uses a solution-focused approach to help you clarify where you want to go, develop practical steps, and create more constructive emotional and behavioral responses.
Dr. Mau is a Licensed Professional Counselor Supervisor, National Certified Counselor, board-certified hypnotherapist, Certified Hypnosis Instructor, author, and professional educator.
He has provided hypnotherapy services in Columbia since 2004. His approach may incorporate Ericksonian hypnosis, narrative therapy, guided imagery, motivational interviewing, and other counseling methods.
Areas of Focus
Dr. Mau provides individualized support for concerns involving:
- Anxiety and stress
- Trauma-related concerns
- Depression
- Fears and phobias
- Sleep and insomnia
- Obsessive-compulsive behaviors
- Smoking and vaping cessation
- Weight-related behavior change
- Pain-management support
- Performance and study skills
- Career counseling and executive coaching
Why Might You Choose Dr. Fredric Mau in Columbia?
If you want help changing an emotional reaction or behavior that has not responded to willpower alone, Dr. G. Fredric Mau combines clinical mental-health counseling with advanced hypnosis experience.
His approach may be especially valuable if you want a licensed counselor who uses hypnosis as part of a broader, solution-focused process rather than offering hypnosis as an isolated technique.
How You May Benefit
Your individualized work may help you:
- Understand the emotions driving an unwanted behavior
- Change automatic reactions connected to anxiety or trauma
- Develop calmer responses to fears and phobias
- Reduce patterns such as nail-biting, hair pulling, or emotional eating
- Strengthen motivation for smoking cessation or weight management
- Improve sleep, concentration, creativity, or performance
- Learn self-hypnosis for continued personal reinforcement
A Solution-Focused Approach
Dr. Mau draws from Ericksonian Hypnosis, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, and Narrative Therapy. These approaches focus on helping you experience situations differently at an emotional level and move toward practical change.
Your work does not have to concentrate exclusively on where a problem began. Dr. Mau helps you identify the outcome you want and explore the emotional responses, internal narratives, and behavioral patterns affecting your progress.
Treatment length depends on your circumstances and goals. Many engagements last approximately three to nine weeks, although your experience may differ.
Professional Leadership
Dr. Mau is the author of three books addressing hypnosis, narrative therapy, anxiety, insomnia, and pain relief. He also contributed to the expanded hypnotherapy section in the fifth edition of Essential Pathology and Its Treatment, released in July 2026.
Books and Professional Recognition
Dr. Mau’s three books were recognized through the 2021 Pen & Quill Award from the International Association of Counselors and Therapists and the International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association:
- Emotion: The Power of Change: A Science-Based Approach to Ericksonian Hypnosis
- A Different Reality: Adventures in Narrative Therapy & a Protocol to Address Anxiety Disorders and Insomnia
- The Relaxation-Based Pain Relief Training Manual
- Also, he contributed to the newly expanded five-page section on hypnotherapy to the fifth edition of Essential Pathology and Its Treatment, released by Norton Professional Books in July 2026. “As one of only four contributing authors, and the only contributor who is not a medical doctor, I’m especially proud to help present hypnotherapy as an evidence-based clinical treatment alongside established psychotherapeutic approaches. Its inclusion in a respected psychiatry textbook marks a meaningful step forward for the recognition of hypnotherapy within the broader mental health and medical communities.”
Watermark Counseling is currently a BBB-accredited business with an A+ rating and has been accredited since February 2006.
Contact Watermark Counseling
Watermark Counseling, LLC
The practice of Dr. G. Fredric Mau
1705 Richland Street
Columbia, SC 29201
Phone: (803) 750-2000
Website: Watermark Counseling
Take the First Step
Dr. Mau offers in-person and live virtual appointments when appropriate. A complimentary initial consultation gives you an opportunity to discuss your concerns, learn about his approach, review his website and biography, and determine whether his services may be a good fit.
Independent-Practice Disclosure
Watermark Counseling, LLC is independently owned and operated. Dr. Mau is not an employee, agent, or representative of Healthy Life Centers. Healthy Life Centers recommends and refers prospective clients to independent practitioners but does not supervise or control their assessments, services, fees, scheduling, clinical decisions, client relationships, or results.
Dr. Mau is a licensed professional counselor in South Carolina. Services provided outside South Carolina, including virtual counseling, remain subject to applicable professional licensing and jurisdictional requirements. No counselor or hypnotherapist can guarantee a particular outcome. The nature and duration of services depend on each client’s circumstances, assessment, participation, and goals.
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