About Vicki
Vicki Bonham is a licensed mental health counselor in Florida with five years of clinical experience. She combines a long background in education with counseling to help people facing stress and anxiety. Vicki approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She aims to make the first steps toward change feel achievable. Before focusing on counseling full time, she spent decades in education as a teacher and school counselor. That experience shaped her ability to explain ideas simply and to break larger problems into small, practical steps.
Background and approach
She also works as a motivational speaker and life coach, bringing an encouraging, action-minded tone to sessions. Vicki helps people manage common concerns such as depression, relationship struggles, low self-esteem, grief, trauma and abuse, and parenting stress. She also supports those dealing with LGBT-related issues, intimacy-related concerns, sleep problems, and career transitions.
Additional areas of focus include attachment and abandonment issues, blended family dynamics, caregiver stress, and body image. Her clinical work draws on several evidence-informed approaches. She uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice patterns and try new behaviors.
Attachment-based ideas guide work on close relationships, and elements of Dialectical Behavior Therapy offer skills for emotion regulation. Sessions are offered in English and delivered through video calls, phone, live chat, or text messaging. Vicki uses a subscription model for sessions that can be canceled at any time.
She frames therapy as a partnership and tailors plans to each person’s needs and goals.
Evidence-informed approaches offered online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. ACT can be useful for anxiety, stress, and life changes because it focuses on small steps toward what matters.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce symptoms. CBT is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleep problems, and coping with grief or transitions.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, day-to-day challenges, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video is useful for full sessions and visual connection, phone calls work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options help people fit therapy into busy schedules and different life situations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
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