Mary Vietmeier

Mary Vietmeier, LPCC, helps people facing stress, grief, life changes, and health-related emotional strain. She draws on many years of clinical experience and a background in nursing and spiritual care to support people through hard moments.

She trained as a nurse and worked in surgery, labor and delivery, and cancer research before changing careers after a back injury. Mary graduated from Capital University and later completed a counseling degree at Ohio State University, becoming an Ohio licensed professional clinical counselor. She also earned a Master of Divinity and served as a chaplain, tending to emotional and spiritual needs during serious illness.

Mary blends her nursing knowledge with counseling skills to address depression, anxiety, relationship struggles, and coping with illness or caregiving stress. She likes working with people who are navigating loss, end-of-life questions, or wide-ranging life transitions. Her approach centers on seeing the whole person - physical, emotional, and spiritual - without judgment.

Her style is person-centered and practical. She uses techniques from attachment work, cognitive behavioral approaches, dialectical strategies, and emotionally-focused methods as appropriate to each person. Mary commonly uses video sessions to capture nonverbal cues and prefers working one-on-one rather than with couples or families.

People who meet with her can expect a calm listener who will help them sort priorities, notice patterns, and make clearer choices. She aims to offer steady support rooted in clinical experience and long personal practice of caregiving and resilience.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Attachment-based work focuses on how early connections affect current relationships and safety. It helps people notice patterns in closeness and trust, and can be useful for intimacy problems, abandonment concerns, and family-of-origin issues.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. It offers straightforward tools for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes by teaching practical ways to test unhelpful thoughts and change routines.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Mary will work collaboratively to see which methods match a person's concerns, goals, and preferences, and she adjusts techniques as new issues emerge.

Many people find online sessions easier to fit into daily life, whether they need a shorter check-in during a workday or want to avoid travel time. Her biography notes a preference for video sessions so nonverbal cues can be part of the work; confirm current session options before booking. Online work can support grief, hospice and end-of-life conversations, caregiving stress, and ongoing therapy for depression or anxiety, while allowing sessions to be scheduled around other commitments.