About Vickie
Vickie Lucero is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 16 years of counseling experience. She has worked across settings such as community mental health, addiction treatment centers, Department of Human Services, and nonprofit clinics. Vickie focuses on creating straightforward, practical help for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and related concerns.
She prefers an adaptable approach that fits each person. Sessions start with listening to what matters most and building goals together.
Background and approach
Vickie blends techniques from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused strategies to match the situation. Her background includes extensive experience with substance use and addiction-related work alongside general mental health care. She also supports people dealing with relationship struggles, parenting stress, sleeping problems, anger, and self-esteem issues.
Vickie has worked with first responders and those facing chronic illness or caregiver strain. In clinical work she emphasizes clear steps you can try between sessions. That may include small behavior changes, short mindfulness practices, or structured problem-solving.
She aims to make therapy practical and understandable so people can use it in daily life. Vickie welcomes conversations about career stress, questions of identity, coping with change, and recovery from trauma. She encourages people to share their priorities early so sessions can be focused on what they want to change.
Approaches that shape online sessions
Client-centered work focuses on listening and understanding your perspective. The therapist follows your lead and helps set goals that reflect what matters to you, which is useful for issues like relationship stress, identity questions, and general life changes.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks down problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. It uses simple exercises and small behavior changes to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and improve sleep. Mindfulness Therapy adds brief attention exercises to reduce reactivity and improve focus during stressful moments.
Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with you about needs, goals, and preferences and then try a method that fits. If something doesn’t feel useful, you can adjust the plan together to find a better match.
Online sessions offer flexible ways to work between home, work, or other locations. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation; phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging are handy for brief updates, ongoing support, or when writing feels easier than talking. These options help fit therapy into busy schedules and different life rhythms.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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