About Mary
Mary Vietmeier is a licensed professional clinical counselor with 21 years of experience. She focuses on helping people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, career stress, and compassion fatigue. She aims to meet people where they are and listen without judgment.
Mary draws on a broad life and work history that includes nursing, counseling, and theological study. She trained as a registered nurse and later completed counseling education and licensure in Ohio.
How Mary works
She also earned a Master of Divinity and served as a hospital chaplain, tending to emotional and spiritual needs in serious health situations. Her approach emphasizes seeing each person as a whole - body, mind, and spirit. Sessions are person-centered and collaborative.
She uses practical techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy alongside attachment-based and emotionally focused ideas to help people identify unhelpful patterns and build skills for coping and connection. Mary often supports people facing complex life changes such as illness, caregiving strain, end-of-life concerns, abandonment, and the emotional fallout of trauma.
She mentions a preference for individual work rather than family or marriage counseling, and for using video sessions to capture nonverbal cues. Her goal is to help clients gain clarity, understand themselves better, and find actionable choices. She frames therapy as a hopeful, steady process grounded in experience and compassion.
Mary lists 14 ways of working on the entry:
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Grief
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 21 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early bonds shape current relationships and emotional responses. Online work can highlight patterns in how someone connects and helps them build safer ways of relating. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting thoughts and behaviors that worsen mood and stress, then practicing practical changes; it often uses homework and short skill drills that fit well into online sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and preferences and together decide which methods to try. That plan can change as progress is made and new priorities emerge, keeping the process collaborative and flexible.
Online therapy here uses video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video lets the therapist and client read facial expressions and body language. Phone sessions can be a lower-bandwidth option or a way to fit a session into a work break. Live chat and messaging support shorter check-ins, ongoing coaching, or notes between sessions. These options help people access consistent care while balancing other responsibilities.
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