About Vicki
Vicki Zeitner is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people feeling overwhelmed by stress and anxiety. She helps with difficult moods, relationship problems, career transitions, and major life changes. Her style is conversational and straightforward, and she aims to help clients notice what matters and take workable steps forward.
Vicki draws on 17 years of clinical experience across community mental health, outpatient counseling, and inpatient programs.
Background and approach
She has also spent many years in academic settings, so she understands the pressures of university life as well as broader community concerns. This background informs a flexible approach that adapts to each person's situation. In sessions she uses tools from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address anxiety and depression, and she applies attachment-based ideas to relationship concerns.
She also uses client-centered methods to create a listening space where people feel heard. Vicki emphasizes noticing habitual thinking and gently testing different ways of responding. Practical help is part of the work.
She supports clearer communication, better work-life balance, decision-making, and coping after loss or trauma. She may suggest exercises to try between sessions and offers straightforward feedback to help people practice new habits. Vicki welcomes people from diverse backgrounds and aims to honor each person's values and choices.
She does not provide treatment for active addictions, acute psychiatric conditions, active eating disorders, or self-harm. Sessions are offered in English and are based in Oregon.
How therapeutic approaches work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice what they value and take small, workable steps toward those values while accepting uncomfortable feelings. This can be useful for anxiety, stress, and when facing life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviors to reduce distress and improve mood; it often includes short exercises to practice between sessions. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationships shape current patterns in connection and communication, which can help with relationship strain and trust issues.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they decide what to try first and make adjustments over time based on what helps most.
Online sessions include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, offering flexibility for different needs. Video works well when visual contact and face-to-face conversation are helpful. Phone can be a good choice when bandwidth is limited or when a simpler check-in fits the day. Live chat and text-based messaging allow shorter check-ins and ongoing reflection between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to continue work consistently from different locations.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English
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