About Vicki
Vicki Packheiser is a licensed clinical social worker with 35 years of experience based in Texas. She draws on a long clinical career and time teaching clinical skills to graduate students to guide conversations with care and practical focus. Vicki works with people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, and life changes.
Her approach is warm and respectful. Vicki listens first and helps people identify strengths they already have.
Background and approach
She uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques and sometimes brings in expressive arts, like intuitive painting, when that fits a person's needs and interests. Vicki has supported people through trauma, family of origin issues, codependency, and forgiveness work. She also helps with career concerns, compassion fatigue, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and questions about life purpose during midlife shifts.
Sessions are practical and focused on goals you set together. Vicki encourages small, doable steps and helps people build new coping patterns for anxiety, anger, low self-esteem, and relationship stress. She values collaboration and treats each person with sensitivity and respect.
Her background in teaching and decades of clinical practice shape a calm, experienced style. People who want a therapist who listens, offers clear options, and supports creative ways to process emotions may find her approach helpful.
Evidence-informed approaches for online anxiety care
Vicki uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques focused on clear skills and practical change. One common approach helps people learn tools to manage anxiety and stress through step-by-step coping strategies and behavioral practice. This method is useful for racing thoughts, panic, and daily worry because it teaches concrete ways to reduce symptoms and regain control.She also integrates trauma-informed ways of working when past events affect present life. This involves pacing conversations, building safety with gradual exposure to difficult memories, and strengthening emotional regulation. When appropriate, Vicki may offer expressive arts activities like intuitive painting to open new ways of processing emotions and building insight.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. Vicki will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn't helped before, then suggest options to try together. She adjusts techniques over time so the work stays useful and relevant to each persons needs.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for busy lives. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when convenient. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or when a shorter check-in fits a work break. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions or use brief, written reflections when speaking feels hard. These options help clients fit therapy into their schedules and keep progress moving forward.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English
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