About Kenneth
Kenneth Vick uses a client-centered approach combined with practical techniques to help people manage addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship or intimacy-related concerns. He holds an IL LCPC and brings 26 years of experience to sessions. His style is direct but calm, aimed at making conversations plain and useful.
Kenneth speaks English and accepts international clients. He focuses on building an open space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment.
Background and approach
Sessions often begin by identifying the most pressing problem and setting simple, achievable goals. He draws on cognitive behavioral tools to change unhelpful thinking and behavior, and on motivational interviewing to support commitment to change. Clients also benefit from narrative and existential ideas that help clarify values and meaning after loss, trauma, or major life change.
These approaches can help with self-esteem, body image, and coping with chronic pain or illness. Practical strategies for sleeping problems and routines are part of the work when needed. His background includes long experience with drug and alcohol addiction and with trauma and abuse, as well as communication and commitment issues.
He addresses family of origin concerns, blended family challenges, and eating or food-related issues in straightforward terms. Kenneth aims to help people take the next step toward a more stable and satisfying life. To begin, a short questionnaire and scheduling step match people to his practice.
He provides video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make ongoing work fit into busy lives.
Client-centered and practical approaches for online care
Kenneth commonly uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening closely and helping the client guide the process. This approach is useful when someone needs a calm space to sort through feelings and make decisions.He also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques to break unhelpful thinking patterns and build new habits. CBT works well for depression, sleep problems, and many addiction-related behaviors because it links thoughts, feelings, and actions in concrete ways.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. Kenneth will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and he adjusts the plan as progress is made. Clients set the pace and he offers tools that match what they want to change.
Online therapy makes it easier to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls let people meet face to face when interaction matters, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging works for short check-ins or when typing feels easier. These options provide flexibility while keeping ongoing support consistent and practical.
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What this counselor works with
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- Abandonment
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 26 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English