About Mary
Dr. Mary Del Vecchio offers direct, compassionate care for adults facing stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She focuses on practical steps people can use right away.
Her style is warm and interactive, and she works with each person to set clear goals and build coping skills. She brings three decades of counseling experience and holds the credential LPC, licensed in Minnesota and Wisconsin. Her approach blends client-centered listening with structured therapies to address symptoms and daily challenges.
How Mary works
She also incorporates mindfulness practices and tools to calm the body and mind. Mary has supported people managing relationship strain, parenting stress, grief, trauma and abuse, addiction concerns, sleep problems, and issues around self-esteem and career transitions. She pays attention to how life stage, chronic illness, or caregiving roles change what a person needs in therapy.
Sessions emphasize practical strategies and real-world problem solving. Her work includes helping people process abandonment, family of origin concerns, codependency, communication and commitment issues, and the emotional impact of divorce or separation. She also addresses aging and geriatric questions, blended family dynamics, cancer-related stress, chronic pain and disability, and compassion fatigue.
Therapy is collaborative. Mary helps people learn skills, try new ways of coping, and track progress. She aims to empower clients so they can move forward with more confidence and clearer plans.
Mary lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Mary works with
The areas below are the ones Mary selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 30 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Minnesota |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work and real-life change
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and understanding the person’s experience. It prioritizes the client's goals and encourages reflection so people can make choices that fit their lives. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and actions, and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood and behavior. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, EMDR, helps people process distressing memories by using structured recall and guided attention to reduce the intensity of past events and improve how those memories affect daily life.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals and preferences and recommend methods to try. Together you will review results and adjust the plan, trying different techniques until you find what helps most.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and exercises, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat allows shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and daily life.
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