About Vicki
Vicki Farley is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Alabama with 20 years of clinical experience. She uses a warm, client-centered style to help people talk through stress, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Her manner is calm and listening-first so clients feel heard from the start.
Vicki blends several approaches to match each person's needs. She draws on client-centered work to create a supportive space. She uses cognitive behavioral techniques when patterns of thinking and behavior are causing pain.
Background and approach
She also brings mindfulness and Jungian ideas into sessions when they fit the situation. Over two decades she has worked in independent practice and in addiction treatment settings. That background means she is used to both short-term problem solving and longer, exploratory work.
She has supported people facing depression, relationship and family issues, sleep problems, career stress, ADHD, and caregiving challenges. Her approach focuses on practical steps and clear conversations. Sessions often include skill practice, tracking unhelpful thoughts, and developing routines that support better sleep and mood.
She helps people find manageable ways to cope with difficult feelings and real-life demands. Vicki aims to collaborate on goals and adjust methods as progress unfolds. She encourages people to tell their stories and helps them sort through options.
Her work is rooted in listening first, then choosing tools that make sense for each person.
Approaches you can use online
Vicki offers approaches that adapt well to online work, starting with client-centered therapy. This approach emphasizes listening, empathy, and exploring what matters most to the person in front of her. It helps when someone needs a steady, supportive listener to sort through emotions and choices.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on the links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. CBT sessions often include clear steps such as tracking patterns, trying small behavioral experiments, and practicing new ways of thinking to reduce anxiety or improve mood.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Vicki will talk with clients about their goals and try methods that fit those goals. If one method is not helping, she adjusts the plan together with the client until something works better.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video works well for more in-depth conversations and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, coaching-style guidance, or follow-up between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and different daily routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Alabama
- Languages
- English
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