About Vicki
Vicki Zeitner is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 17 years of clinical experience. She helps people manage stress, anxiety, depressed mood, and relationship patterns. She focuses on practical skills for communication, decision making, and balancing work and life.
Vicki draws on straightforward, conversational counseling. Sessions often include listening, clarifying values, and suggesting small changes to try between meetings. She emphasizes awareness of habitual thoughts and how early relationships shape current patterns.
Background and approach
Her background includes community mental health, outpatient counseling, and inpatient treatment programs. She also spent nearly 15 years working in academic settings, so she understands the rhythms and pressures of university life. Vicki has lived in a range of communities and brings that life experience into her perspective.
In session she uses approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-focused perspectives, emotionally focused work, and a client-centered stance. The work is collaborative - she asks questions, offers ideas, and supports clients in applying changes outside sessions. Vicki does not treat active addictions, acute psychiatric conditions, active eating disorders, or self-harm.
She welcomes diversity and aims to help people who are willing to reflect on their experience and try new ways of coping. Her practice is based in Oregon and she holds the LPC credential.
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values. It is often used for anxiety, stress, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thought patterns affect mood and behavior and offers concrete tools to test and change those patterns. It can help with depression, anxiety, and coping skills. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early relationships shape current ways of relating and feeling, and it can help when relationship patterns or intense emotional reactions cause distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work itself. Vicki collaborates with clients to figure out what feels useful and realistic. She will ask about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped before, then tailor methods to fit each person's needs and pace.
Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and text messaging help maintain continuity between sessions and suit people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to continue work from different locations.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Infidelity
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Sexuality
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- Oregon
- Languages
- English