About Mary
Mary Vietmeier greets readers with a calm, straightforward approach. She helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship struggles, intimacy concerns, career crossroads, or major life changes. Mary draws on 21 years of clinical work to guide practical steps forward and offer steady support.
She trained first as a registered nurse and later earned counseling degrees, bringing both medical and emotional perspectives to sessions. Mary holds the LPCC credential in Ohio, which she uses alongside a broad range of therapeutic methods.
Background and approach
Her background also includes seminary study and chaplaincy work, which informs how she talks about spirituality and belief when that matters to a client. In session she focuses on the whole person - body, mind, and spirit - without judgment. Conversations are client-centered and paced to the individual, with attention to attachment patterns, emotions, and thoughts that shape behavior.
Mary prefers video sessions because much of communication is nonverbal, though other formats are available. Clients often bring complex histories such as chronic illness, caregiver stress, loss, or family-of-origin wounds. Mary also supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency, cancer, chronic pain and aging concerns.
She does not typically provide family or marriage counseling, addiction treatment, or ADHD-focused care except in rare circumstances. Her style is practical and compassionate. She aims to help clients gain clarity, understand themselves better, and make choices that fit their values.
Mary emphasizes resilience and steady progress, and she invites people to take that first step toward feeling less alone.
Online approaches that fit your life and needs
Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early connections shape current relationships and trust. It helps people notice patterns in closeness and safety, and supports building more supported ways of relating.Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and acceptance. The therapist follows the person's lead, helps them find their own answers, and supports personal growth at a comfortable pace.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thinking and to try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or depression.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Mary will collaborate with each person to pick methods that match their goals, values, and day-to-day needs. She adjusts techniques as progress is made and as priorities change.
Online sessions offer flexibility for busy lives. Video calls preserve body language and facial cues that inform the work, while phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging allow quick reflections, brief coaching, or support between longer sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, medical appointments, or travel.
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What this counselor 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