About Vickie
Vickie Lane welcomes people who are feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or unsure about their next steps. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia with 15 years of experience helping adults navigate stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and major life changes. Her approach is straightforward and focused on practical steps clients can use right away.
She creates a calm space where clients can talk through thoughts and feelings without judgment. Sessions aim to clarify what matters most to each person and set realistic goals.
Background and approach
Vickie uses clear tools and exercises so progress can be seen between sessions. Her work often addresses family conflict, parenting challenges, relationship strain, and career concerns. She also supports people dealing with trauma, intimacy issues, anger, and compassion fatigue.
For those facing mood disorders such as bipolar or disruptive moods, she helps build routines and coping plans that make daily life more manageable. Vickie draws on client-centered methods and evidence-informed techniques like cognitive behavioral strategies, dialectical behavior skills, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. She blends these so the plan fits each person rather than forcing one method on everyone.
People who choose her can expect a collaborative tone. She listens, asks practical questions, and offers steps to try between appointments. The focus is on small, sustainable changes that add up over time.
Approach, tools, and online care
Vickie often uses client-centered work and cognitive behavioral strategies to guide online therapy. Client-centered work focuses on listening closely and shaping sessions around what matters to the person. It helps people feel heard and more able to set personal goals. Cognitive behavioral therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions connect and teaches practical skills to change patterns that get in the way of daily functioning.She also draws on dialectical behavior therapy skills when emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness are goals. DBT offers concrete exercises for managing strong emotions and improving communication. Together these approaches give a mix of listening, skill practice, and step-by-step problem solving so the plan matches each person's needs.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences, and will adjust the plan as progress is made. That collaborative tone helps clients try new skills and track what helps.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when a more flexible audio check-in is needed. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter check-ins, quick coaching, or when typing feels most comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to keep momentum between appointments.
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What this counselor 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