About Vivian
Vivian Litterell is a licensed professional counselor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and other life challenges. She brings a calm, respectful manner to sessions and aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable for people who are worried or overwhelmed. She has worked in Oklahoma since 1998 and has nearly three decades of experience.
Vivian has supported people across many life stages and situations, including parenting concerns, aging and geriatric issues, and coping after trauma or loss.
Background and approach
Her background includes work with mood concerns such as depression, bipolar disorder, and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. Vivian uses straightforward methods focused on practical progress. She combines client-centered listening with goal-oriented tools so people can notice small improvements quickly.
Cognitive behavioral techniques are used to help identify unhelpful thinking and build more effective coping skills. She also draws on solution-focused strategies and trauma-focused care when the situation calls for it. This means sessions can include short-term goal planning, step-by-step coping strategies, and space to process difficult experiences at a pace that feels safe.
People who choose Vivian can expect a respectful, down-to-earth approach that emphasizes collaboration. She encourages clients to set realistic goals and practices skills between sessions so progress continues outside the appointment time.
How Vivian’s Approaches Work Online
Vivian often uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening closely to each person's concerns and shaping sessions around their priorities. This approach helps people feel heard and directs the work toward what matters most to them in everyday life.She also uses cognitive behavioral therapy, a practical method that looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect. CBT helps build concrete coping skills for anxiety, depression, and stress by practicing new ways of thinking and small behavior changes between sessions.
Finding the right approach is part of therapy, and Vivian works collaboratively to choose what fits best. She reviews goals, checks what is helping, and adjusts methods so the work stays useful and manageable.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video lets you use visual cues for deeper conversation, phone works when bandwidth is limited, live chat is useful for shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflections between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while staying focused on real, practical progress.
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What this therapist works with
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 28 years
- Licensed
- Oklahoma
- Languages
- English
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