About Mary
Dr. Mary Del Vecchio is a Licensed Professional Counselor who helps people manage stress and anxiety. She brings 30 years of counseling experience and a warm, interactive approach to sessions.
Mary aims to treat each person with respect and to help them build skills to move forward. She uses a client-centered stance that focuses on the person in front of her. That means listening first, then working together to set practical goals.
Background and approach
Sessions often combine mindfulness, problem-solving, and conversations about beliefs and behaviors. Her background includes a Masters degree in Theology and a Pastoral Ministry Certificate. She also holds licensure as an LPC in Minnesota and Wisconsin and has long experience with workplace concerns, chronic illness, and life stage transitions.
This mix of clinical and pastoral training informs a whole-person view of challenges. Mary draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns. She also uses EMDR-informed methods and mindfulness practices to help with trauma, sleep problems, and emotional distress.
Motivational interviewing helps when people face ambivalence about change. People often seek her help for relationships, parenting concerns, grief, addiction recovery, caregiver stress, and issues tied to family of origin. She offers Christian counseling when clients want faith included in sessions.
Mary emphasizes teamwork and teaches concrete skills clients can use between appointments.
How therapeutic approaches shape online care
Client-centered therapy places the client's goals and experience at the center of each session. The counselor listens deeply, reflects concerns back, and helps clients decide what to work on and when. This approach supports people dealing with anxiety, relationship worries, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors that keep problems going. It is practical and goal-oriented, often using homework between sessions to practice new skills. This approach can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and mood concerns.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, or EMDR-informed methods, offer tools to process traumatic memories and reduce the distress they cause. In an online setting these techniques are adapted to fit video or phone formats while still focusing on reducing symptoms tied to past events.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with clients about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people keep visual contact and work more directly through exercises. Phone sessions provide a lower-bandwidth option for quick check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow brief updates, coaching between sessions, and a way to track progress over time. These options help therapy fit into busy lives.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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