Dr. Mary Del Vecchio
Compassionate counselor for life's challenges
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed in
- Minnesota, Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mary
Dr. Mary Del Vecchio offers a calm, straightforward approach for people coping with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, addictions, and life changes. She presents herself in a caring, interactive way and aims to build practical skills that help clients move forward.
Her work includes concerns around relationships, intimacy, parenting, sleep, self-esteem, career pressures, and compassion fatigue. Mary is a Licensed Professional Counselor with three decades of experience and practices in Minnesota.
Background and approach
Her background includes a second master’s degree in theology and a Pastoral Ministry Certificate, plus a national certification as a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. She is trained in Accelerated Resolution Therapy and also uses modalities such as Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Mindfulness Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing.
These tools let her tailor sessions to what a person needs most. Sessions focus on teamwork. Mary listens, then helps identify small steps and coping tools a person can use between meetings.
She emphasizes the whole person - body, mind, and spirit - and can include faith perspectives when a client wants that. Her style blends warmth with practical problem solving. She aims to help clients gain skills for handling everyday problems and major transitions.
The goal is clearer choices and manageable changes rather than quick fixes. Mary’s training and long experience give her a range of techniques to draw from. She frames therapy as a shared process and works to empower people to make steady progress on their concerns.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening with respect and following the person’s lead. In this approach the therapist reflects what is said and helps a client find their own solutions, which can help with stress, relationships, and self-esteem. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns; it is commonly used for anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes.Choosing an approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust as needed. That could mean using mindfulness practices in one session and a CBT skill in another, or bringing in EMDR techniques when trauma work is appropriate.
Online therapy offers flexibility with video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options let people fit sessions around work, caregiving, or health needs and keep continuity when life is busy. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, review progress, and support steady change over time.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
EMDR
A structured protocol used with distressing memories, pairing recall with guided attention tasks. Some therapists adapt it for video sessions; whether that fits is worth asking about directly.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- 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
Next step
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