About Vickie
Vickie Griffin, LCMHC, helps people who are feeling overwhelmed or stuck find clearer ways forward. She focuses on stress, anxiety, depression, relationship and family concerns, and life changes. Her tone is warm and direct, and she aims to make first steps feel manageable for worried parents and busy adults.
With ten years of experience working in North Carolina, she centers sessions on each person's strengths and goals. Vickie treats clients as the experts on their own lives and offers practical tools to reduce distress and improve daily functioning.
Background and approach
Conversations are honest but gentle, with space for challenge when it helps progress. Her work draws from client-centered therapy, cognitive behavioral techniques, dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She blends these approaches to suit the issues a person brings, whether anxiety, grief, self-esteem struggles, or career stress.
In sessions she listens for patterns that keep problems active and then helps people test new ways of thinking and acting. She introduces simple skills for coping with strong emotions and rebuilding closer connections with others. Vickie supports parents who are juggling life changes and people facing long-term challenges such as chronic illness, caregiving stress, or adoption-related concerns.
The goal is steady, practical progress that fits day-to-day life, not quick fixes or pressured solutions.
How Vickie blends therapy approaches online
Client-centered therapy emphasizes understanding each person’s perspective and building on their strengths. It involves listening closely, reflecting what matters, and helping people set goals that feel meaningful and doable. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thought patterns and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms.The right approach is often found together. Vickie works collaboratively to match strategies to a person’s goals and daily life. She may start with supportive listening, add CBT skills for anxious thinking, or introduce DBT-based emotion regulation if intense feelings are present. The plan changes as needs evolve.
Online sessions can fit into busy schedules by offering video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or ongoing text-based messaging. Video is useful for deeper conversation and skill practice, phone calls work when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins, and chat or messaging can help with brief supports between sessions. These options make it easier to practice new skills in real time and to keep therapy consistent when life is hectic.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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