Mary Vietmeier, LPCC

Mary Vietmeier is an Ohio-based licensed professional clinical counselor (LPCC) with 21 years of practice. She welcomes people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and those coping with life changes. Her background in nursing, counseling, and theology informs a whole-person view of care.

She draws on decades of hands-on experience in health care and counseling. Mary began as a registered nurse and later completed counseling studies at Ohio State University, earning her LPCC in 2001. She also holds a Master of Divinity and has served as a hospital chaplain, focusing on emotional and spiritual needs during serious illness.

In sessions she centers the person rather than a label. Mary uses client-centered ideas alongside approaches such as attachment work, cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical skills, and emotionally-focused methods. She aims to help clients gain clarity, recognize patterns, and identify concrete choices they can try between visits.

Mary often works with people facing caregiver strain, chronic illness, cancer-related stress, hospice and end-of-life concerns, and aging and geriatric issues. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, codependency, career transition, and compassion fatigue. Her style is warm, direct, and respectful of spiritual beliefs.

She prefers individual video sessions to capture nonverbal cues, and she tailors her approach to each person’s situation. Mary emphasizes resilience and practical steps, helping clients move toward clearer thinking and improved coping. Taking the first step can feel hard, and she aims to walk alongside people as they work through difficult seasons.

How Mary’s Approaches Translate to Online Care

Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape current patterns. In sessions this means identifying how people connect, pull away, or seek closeness and then practicing new ways of relating that feel safer and more satisfying. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and offers simple tools to test unhelpful thinking and build new habits that reduce anxiety and depression. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and shift powerful emotions to improve understanding of themselves and others.

Finding the right approach is collaborative. Mary talks with each person about goals, life context, and what strategies feel most useful. She adjusts methods over time so the work matches changing needs and priorities rather than locking someone into a single way of doing therapy.

Mary prefers video sessions to capture facial expressions and body language, which she finds important for attachment and emotionally focused work. If you are unsure about formats, confirm current session options before booking. Online sessions can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, allow short check-ins when needed, and reduce travel time so people can focus on the work itself rather than logistics.