About Vickie
Vickie Lane, LPC, focuses on helping people manage stress and anxiety so they can feel steadier day to day. She writes plainly and listens closely to what matters most. Her style aims to make the first step less overwhelming for a worried parent or busy person.
She uses straightforward conversation to learn what is going on in a person's life. Sessions explore thoughts, behaviors, and small changes that can make daily life easier.
Background and approach
Vickie often blends practical skills with moments of reflection so clients can try new ways of coping between sessions. With 15 years of experience, she has worked with people facing depression, bipolar mood concerns, addiction, and relationship stress. She also supports people dealing with parenting strains, grief from separation, chronic illness, and issues with self-esteem and body image.
Vickie helps people talk through anger, impulsivity, and workplace pressures in concrete terms. Her approach draws from client-centered methods that keep the person in charge of goals. She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and dialectical behavior therapy skills to manage intense emotions.
Motivational interviewing and mindfulness strategies are woven in to support readiness for change. Vickie practices in Virginia as a Licensed Professional Counselor. Sessions are offered in English and are available through online formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging for ongoing support.
Approaches and online care that fit your life
Client-centered therapy puts the person's goals first and focuses on listening, empathy, and building a trusting working relationship. This approach helps people who need a calm space to sort through feelings and decide what change they want.Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. It teaches practical tools to shift unhelpful thinking and try concrete behavior changes, which can help with anxiety, depression, and stress.
Dialectical behavior therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing strong emotions and improving interpersonal effectiveness. Short coaching-style exercises from DBT can be useful when emotions feel overwhelming or relationships become heated.
Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that match goals, needs, and personal preferences. That process can change over time as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help, while phone sessions can be easier when less bandwidth is available. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for brief check-ins, skill reminders, or when writing feels more comfortable than talking. These options make it simpler to fit sessions around work, parenting, and daily demands.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- Virginia
- Languages
- English
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