About Vicki
Vicki Bauer, LMHC, focuses on helping people manage the stress that comes with daily life and caregiving. She works with individuals facing anxiety, depression, grief, anger, and sleep problems, and supports parents coping with the demands of raising a child with special needs. She brings 34 years of experience as a licensed mental health counselor in Florida.
Her background includes work with people affected by intellectual disability, autism and Asperger syndrome, ADHD, and related behavior challenges.
Background and approach
She offers practical strategies for day-to-day struggles and for improving relationships strained by long-term caregiving demands. Vicki uses clear, straightforward techniques drawn from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mindfulness. Sessions commonly focus on problem-solving, building routines, managing intense emotions, and reducing unhelpful thought patterns.
She also offers coaching-style guidance for career and life transitions. Many conversations center on parenting stress, communication problems, boundary setting, and coping with family conflict. She helps people develop skills to reduce impulsivity, manage anger, and rebuild self-esteem after loss or betrayal.
People who choose Vicki can expect calm, direct support that emphasizes small, achievable changes. She combines talk-based work with practical behavior strategies and life-skills practice. The goal is clearer thinking, steadier mood, and more manageable days.
How her approaches work online
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person's experience. It emphasizes respect, empathy, and working from the client’s goals to shape sessions, which helps when caregivers need someone to hear their day-to-day struggles.Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts affect feelings and actions. Online CBT sessions often include tracking patterns, trying new coping skills between meetings, and practical steps to reduce anxiety, anger, or low mood.
Finding the best approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, try methods that match those goals, and adjust techniques based on what feels most useful. Clients have a say in pacing and focus throughout the work.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video is useful for longer conversations and skills practice, phone can be a lower-bandwidth option, and chat or text works for brief check-ins or between-session support. These options increase flexibility and help people maintain continuity of care when schedules, travel, or other demands change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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