About Vivian
Vivian Whetham is a Licensed Professional Counselor who focuses on practical, down-to-earth help. She listens without judgment and works with people to build skills that ease pain and make everyday life more manageable. She draws on approaches that are action-oriented and interest in what helps now.
Sessions often focus on concrete tools for stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, and coping with big life changes. Vivian helps clients notice unhelpful patterns and try new ways of handling problems.
Background and approach
With ten years of experience, she has worked with concerns such as grief, trauma and abuse, parenting strain, career questions, and mood conditions like bipolar disorder. She also supports people facing caregiver stress, codependency, communication problems, and substance use issues. The approach is straightforward and tailored to each person’s situation.
Therapy sessions mix talking and hands-on practice. Clients may learn strategies from cognitive behavioral methods, mindfulness, acceptance and commitment ideas, and skills drawn from dialectical behavior therapy. The emphasis is on learning practical skills you can use between sessions to manage emotions and respond differently to stressors.
Vivian invites people who are ready to try a different way of coping. She helps set clear goals and checks in on progress as those goals change. If someone wants steady skill-building and a therapist who values honesty and practicality, she provides that kind of support.
Practical approaches for online therapy and skill-building
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then choosing actions that match personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and decisions about life direction. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions influence each other and teaches concrete techniques to change patterns that keep problems going. It is useful for anxiety, mood concerns, and managing addictive behaviors. Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes a nonjudgmental, empathetic relationship where the client leads the conversation and the therapist reflects and supports the person’s own problem-solving.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss goals, try methods that fit those goals, and adjust them together as progress is reviewed. That collaborative way helps match techniques to what the person needs and prefers.
Online therapy formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer practical benefits. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation for skills practice and guided exercises. Phone sessions can be useful when lower bandwidth or hands-free conversation is needed. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or fit brief coaching into a busy day. These options make it simpler to stay consistent with sessions and to practice new skills where they matter most.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Anger management
Also listed
- ADHD
- Antisocial personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- 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
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Parenting issues
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Wyoming
- Languages
- English