About Mary
Mary Snyder uses a client-centered approach to help people facing stress and anxiety find clearer footing. She speaks plainly and listens carefully so people feel heard. Her style is collaborative and down-to-earth, with practical ideas offered alongside support.
She draws on 15 years as a licensed professional clinical counselor - LPCC - working in community settings and on military installations. That experience gives her a range of tools for both short-term problem solving and longer, deeper work.
Background and approach
She helps people sort through relationship concerns, parenting strain, grief, addiction challenges, and changes in career or life stage. Sessions focus on understanding what matters to each person. Mary blends cognitive behavioral strategies with mindfulness skills to reduce anxious thoughts and build coping habits.
She also uses motivational interviewing to support change and psychodynamic ideas when exploring repeated patterns that cause pain. Her aim is to help people see options they may have missed. She offers clear observations, questions that prompt insight, and concrete steps to try between meetings.
The work often involves small experiments and new ways of noticing old reactions. People contact Mary when they feel stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure how to move forward. She helps break problems into manageable parts, so change feels possible and realistic.
If someone wants a thoughtful, practical counselor who values the client's perspective, Mary provides that steady, experienced presence.
How therapy approaches translate to online sessions
Client-centered therapy places the person's experience at the center and focuses on listening, reflection, and collaborative problem solving. Online sessions let that conversation happen in a way that fits a person's schedule and communication preferences. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical ways to notice and change unhelpful thinking and behaviors, which works well through video or phone sessions and with short exercises between meetings. Mindfulness therapy offers simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve focus, and those practices can be taught in session and practiced during the week.Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust plans based on what helps. That collaborative process means techniques can be blended over time so the client gets a fit that feels right and useful.
Online formats offer practical benefits. Video calls support face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins, written reflections, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent during busy weeks, work breaks, caregiving responsibilities, or while traveling.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
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