About Vicki
Vicki Bonham is a Florida-licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who brings five years of clinical practice and decades of experience in education to her work. She combines a background in counseling and teaching with coaching and motivational speaking skills. Vicki aims to create respectful, compassionate sessions that focus on each person's needs and goals.
She helps people who face stress, anxiety, depression, and self-esteem or confidence struggles. Vicki also supports those navigating relationship matters, grief, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, parenting stress, and work or career changes.
How Vicki works
She has experience addressing LGBT-related concerns and compassion fatigue as well. Vicki draws on several well-established therapy approaches to tailor a plan to each person. She uses practical tools from cognitive behavioral work to spot and change unhelpful thinking.
She also uses acceptance-based strategies to help people live by their values even when feelings are hard. Her sessions are conversational and goal-oriented. She aims to listen first, then offer strategies and coaching to build skills and momentum.
Vicki explains steps plainly and checks in to make sure an approach fits the client. Clients can expect flexible online formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text messaging. To begin, a person completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules sessions based on availability.
Vicki lists 13 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Vicki works with
The areas below are the ones Vicki selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- 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
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Florida |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings while taking actions that match their values; it can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change unhelpful patterns for issues like stress, sleep problems, and low mood. Client-Centered Therapy centers the conversation on the person's experience, using empathic listening and collaboration to build motivation and self-understanding.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Vicki will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they can try focused exercises, adjust techniques, and select methods that feel useful over time.
Online work can fit busy schedules and different needs. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and more interactive exercises. Phone sessions are an option when video isn't possible and can be easier on bandwidth. Live chat or text-based messaging can support brief check-ins, ongoing coaching, or moments when writing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep regular contact and build momentum between sessions.
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