About Mary
Dr. Mary Del Vecchio greets people with a calm, practical approach. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor with three decades of experience.
Her style is warm and interactive, and she focuses on helping people find workable steps forward. She helps with stress, anxiety, depression, relationship concerns, grieving, and major life changes. She also supports people facing addiction, trauma and abuse, sleep problems, and issues with intimacy and self-esteem.
Career strain, caregiver stress, chronic illness, and parenting worries are also within her practice focus.
Background and approach
In sessions she uses a client-centered framework that keeps the person’s goals first. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ideas are used to spot unhelpful thinking and test different ways of coping. She also offers EMDR work for trauma and mindfulness methods to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
Her background includes clinical counseling across many settings and a long history of working with adults through transitions and chronic stress. She brings practical techniques alongside space to talk through painful feelings. Sessions aim to build skills people can use between appointments.
Mary works from Minnesota and offers sessions by video, phone, chat, or text messaging. She speaks English. Getting started involves a brief matching questionnaire and scheduling once a plan is chosen.
The overall tone of her work is collaborative, respectful, and geared toward helping people reclaim steadier days.
How these approaches translate to online work
Dr. Mary often uses client-centered work, cognitive behavioral techniques, and EMDR in online sessions. Client-centered work focuses on listening and tailoring the plan to each person, helping clarify goals and priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors to reduce anxiety, low mood, or stress. EMDR addresses distress tied to traumatic memories by using guided processing to reduce the intensity of painful recollections.Choosing which approach to use is a shared process. The therapist and client review concerns, goals, and preferences and try methods that feel right. Treatment can shift over time as needs change, and Mary checks in regularly to make sure the approach remains useful.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for full conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or when a client prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are helpful for brief check-ins, short coaching steps, or when fitting therapy into a busy day. These options make meeting easier across schedules while keeping the focus on practical strategies and progress.
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What this counselor 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