About Vickie
Vickie Lucero is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing from Colorado with 16 years of counseling experience since becoming an LPC in 2011. She has worked in many mental health roles and settings, and brings that breadth of hands-on experience to each session. Vickie writes plainly and focuses on practical steps to help people move forward.
Her background includes work in government services, community mental health, inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment, and nonprofit health clinics.
Background and approach
That range means she has seen many different kinds of struggles and recovery paths. She draws on what has worked in real-life settings rather than relying on a single method. Vickie describes her style as flexible and individualized.
She listens first to understand a person's history and goals, then chooses tools that fit the situation. Common approaches she uses include client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, and solution-focused methods.
People come to her for a wide range of concerns such as stress, anxiety, trauma, addiction, depression, relationship and intimacy issues, sleep problems, parenting strain, anger, low self-esteem, bipolar concerns, and coping with life changes. Additional focuses include caregiving stress, chronic illness, adoption and foster care topics, and first responder issues.
Sessions emphasize clear steps, honest conversation, and small changes that add up. Vickie aims to help each person identify practical next steps and build skills they can use between meetings. She welcomes the chance to learn about a client's goals and support their progress.
Approaches that guide online counseling
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and reflecting what matters to the client. It helps people feel heard and encourages them to set goals that match their values and needs. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and teaches practical skills to change them, which can help with anxiety, depression, and coping with life changes. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple moment-to-moment awareness and breathing or attention practices to reduce reactivity and improve emotional regulation.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has helped or not helped in the past. Together they will choose techniques and adjust them over time so the plan matches the client's needs and pace.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls let people meet face to face without travel, while phone sessions work when video is not possible or bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging are useful for shorter check-ins, quick skill practice, or those who prefer typing over speaking. These options make scheduling more flexible and allow sessions to fit into busy lives.
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What this counselor 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