About Vickie
Vickie Frizzell Pratt is a licensed independent mental health practitioner with 29 years of experience in Nebraska. She focuses on clear, practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by anxiety, depression, trauma, and self-esteem struggles. Her style is straightforward and compassionate, aimed at making therapy approachable for someone worried and in need of steady support.
She builds sessions around each person’s story rather than a one-size-fits-all plan. Vickie uses client-centered methods to listen and help people set goals that matter to them.
Background and approach
She also draws on cognitive behavioral tools to address unhelpful thoughts and behaviors that keep stress and anxiety active. For people coping with past hurt, she incorporates approaches that address traumatic memories and emotional bonding patterns. Those methods can help reduce the power of painful memories and improve how someone relates to others.
She also uses mindfulness practices to help clients manage intense feelings in the moment. Vickie works with adults across a range of life challenges, including mood concerns, bipolar disorder, chronic illness, caregiver stress, and problems tied to attachment or abandonment. She pays attention to the ways culture, gender identity, and life transitions shape each person’s needs.
Her sessions aim to create practical steps toward relief. Vickie helps clients build coping skills, clearer communication, and stronger self-understanding. People leave with concrete strategies they can use between appointments.
Therapeutic approaches for online anxiety care
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding each person without judgment. In online sessions this means the therapist follows the client's lead, helps set meaningful goals, and tailors techniques to fit each person’s life and concerns.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps people notice and change unhelpful thought patterns and behaviors that feed anxiety and depression. Online CBT often includes skill-building exercises, task-oriented homework, and clear steps to reduce worry and avoidant habits.
Emotionally-focused work concentrates on how people experience and express feelings, especially in close relationships and attachment issues. This approach helps people identify emotional patterns and practice new ways of connecting and responding when strong emotions arise.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively with the client to test methods and adjust over time based on what helps most. Together they decide which techniques to prioritize according to the client's goals and comfort level.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to stay consistent with care. Video calls let for full face-to-face conversation. Phone sessions can work when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, homework feedback, or when a shorter, more frequent contact fits a busy schedule.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 29 years
- Licensed
- Nebraska
- Languages
- English, American Sign Language
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