About Mary
Mary Vietmeier is a licensed professional clinical counselor who helps people facing anxiety, stress, depression, grief, and life changes. She speaks plainly and listens closely to what matters most to each person. Mary brings patience and real-world perspective to conversations about work, relationships, and meaning.
She trained first as a registered nurse and later returned to school for counseling, earning a degree from Ohio State University and licensure as an Ohio LPCC.
Background and approach
That combination of nursing and counseling experience shaped how she notices both physical and emotional needs. She also studied theology and completed a chaplain internship, which deepened her comfort with spiritual questions and end-of-life concerns. Mary favors a person-centered, holistic way of working.
Sessions focus on the whole person - physical, emotional, and spiritual - and begin with understanding each individual's values and strengths. She draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feelings, and on cognitive behavioral strategies to help change unhelpful thinking and behavior.
She typically works with individuals rather than family or marriage cases, and generally does not take addiction or ADHD cases. Mary prefers video sessions so she can read nonverbal cues, though other online formats are also offered. Her goal is to help people gain clarity, better understand themselves, and discover practical next steps.
With 21 years of experience, Mary aims to offer steady support and practical tools. She encourages hopeful, resilient steps forward and partners with each person to find what works in their life.
Approaches that guide online work and practical benefits
Mary often uses attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral strategies in online sessions. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and trust, which can help with anxiety, intimacy concerns, and feeling more supported. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors step by step to reduce symptoms like worry and low mood.Finding the right approach is part of the first sessions. Mary will talk with the person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then suggest which methods to try. The plan can shift as needs change so the work stays relevant and useful; she approaches this together with each person rather than imposing one method.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let Mary see facial expressions and body language, which she prefers for most work, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter voice check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging can serve as short check-ins, brief coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options make scheduling easier and help people fit therapy into busy lives without travel.
Questions people ask
What concerns does Mary address?
What is her general therapy style?
How much clinical experience does she have?
What credentials and location apply?
Which languages are supported for sessions?
What session formats are available?
How does payment and cost work?
How do I begin working with her?
What this therapist works with
Most often
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 21 years
- Licensed
- Ohio
- Languages
- English
We will earn a commission if you sign up through our link, at no cost to you.