About Vickie
Vickie Griffin is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strain, and major life changes. She speaks plainly and listens first, helping callers find steady ground when life feels overwhelming. Her approach centers on each person’s strengths and goals, not on judgment or quick fixes.
With ten years of practice in North Carolina, Vickie focuses on practical steps that fit everyday life. She uses methods that teach skills for managing emotions, improving communication, and reducing anxiety.
Background and approach
Sessions are collaborative and paced to match what the person needs right now. Vickie often works with people coping with grief, career pressure, intimacy concerns, attention challenges, and caregiver stress. She also addresses issues tied to attachment, body image, chronic illness, and blended family dynamics.
Her aim is to help people recognize patterns and try different responses until something feels more helpful. During sessions she combines client-centered listening with guided tools from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness practices. She offers clear feedback and gentle challenges when that helps people move forward.
The tone is warm, supportive, and focused on practical change. People who value a direct but caring therapist may find her approach useful. Vickie encourages small steps that build toward clearer choices, better coping, and stronger relationships over time.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening without judgment and following the person’s lead to identify what matters most. It helps people feel heard and safe enough to try new ways of coping. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills for reducing anxiety and changing unhelpful patterns. Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers tools for emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and improving relationships, which can help when emotions feel overwhelming.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they will choose methods and adjust them over time so techniques fit real life and daily routines.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when being on camera is difficult. Live chat and messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, journaling between sessions, or ongoing skill reminders. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent around work, family, and other obligations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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