About Vicki
Vicki Hart is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) who blends practical coaching with clinical care. She focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety, navigate grief, and handle big life changes. Vicki brings 17 years of experience to each conversation and offers straightforward guidance for everyday problems.
Her background began in neuropsychology at Baylor College of Medicine, where she administered cognitive testing for memory concerns. Over the next decade and a half, she moved into clinical and management roles in hospitals, research centers, and community settings.
Background and approach
Those roles included teaching stress management and developing counseling services for diverse groups. Vicki has worked overseas in Japan, Singapore, and Germany, and she has experience supporting military personnel on Army bases. That international work shaped her approach to cross-cultural counseling and practical coping skills.
She has also focused on caregiver stress, hospice and end-of-life counseling, and support after traumatic events. In addition to clinical practice, Vicki does executive coaching and management consulting. Her coaching links personal goals to measurable workplace outcomes and uses direct feedback, focused questions, and action planning to drive change.
She is a published executive coach and draws on that experience when clients want help with career or leadership concerns. People who come to Vicki can expect clear steps, calm conversation, and tools they can try between sessions. She offers video, phone, live chat, and text messaging options and works with clients in New Mexico, California, and internationally.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Vicki often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and following the client's lead to build understanding and trust. This approach helps when someone needs a calm space to sort feelings and make decisions about next steps.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT provides concrete tools for managing anxiety, stress, and depressive patterns by testing thoughts and practicing new behaviors.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Vicki will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then suggest methods to try. She adjusts the plan based on what helps most and invites feedback about what is or isn't working.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which let clients pick what fits their day. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and teaching skills, phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a break, live chat suits quick check-ins, and messaging supports short reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent across different schedules and time zones.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California, New Mexico
- Languages
- English
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