About Mary
Mary Snyder is a counselor who blends client-centered work with practical therapeutic tools to help people feel clearer about their lives. She holds LPCC, which is the Ohio Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential, and brings 15 years of experience to her work. Mary aims to create a calm space where people can talk, reflect, and make plans that fit their real lives.
She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and anger.
Background and approach
Parents and caregivers often seek her help with family strain, blended family issues, and caregiver stress. She also works with people facing career changes, life transitions, and feelings of isolation or low self-esteem. Mary uses a mix of approaches based on what each person needs.
She draws on client-centered therapy to listen and validate, cognitive behavioral techniques to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and mindfulness to help people stay present. Motivational interviewing and psychodynamic ideas are available when exploring deeper patterns and motivation. Her background includes community counseling centers and work with foster families and military communities, including services delivered on installations in the U.S. and Germany.
That variety shaped her comfort with both short-term, goal-focused work and longer-term exploration. Sessions aim to be collaborative: Mary offers observations, tools, and coaching while the person remains the expert on their life. She helps people sort through what matters, set realistic goals, and try small changes that can add up to better days.
How therapy approaches fit into online care
Client-centered therapy centers the person and begins by listening carefully to what matters most. It helps people feel heard, build trust, and decide what changes to try first. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with new actions, which can reduce anxiety, lift mood, and improve coping with stress. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention skills to reduce reactivity and increase calm in day-to-day life.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Mary will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and how quickly they want change. Together they decide whether short-term, solution-focused steps or longer exploration fits best, and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets people read facial cues and use shared exercises. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text are useful for brief check-ins or when typing feels easier than talking. These options help people fit counseling into busy schedules and varied life demands.
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What this counselor 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