About Vicki
Vicki Packheiser is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) in Texas with 35 years of clinical experience. She draws on decades of practice and teaching to help people facing stress, anxiety, depression, grief, relationship strain, and life transitions. Vicki has a long background working with adults across many life stages.
She has also taught clinical skills to graduate social work students at the University of Texas. Her practice has included individual therapy, couples work, and group formats over the years.
How Vicki works
She uses creative approaches alongside standard talk therapy, including expressive arts and intuitive painting. These options are offered when they fit a person's interests and goals, and are used to support emotional expression and personal insight. Vicki aims to treat people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion.
She believes each person knows their own story and that therapy builds on existing strengths. Sessions focus on practical steps, clearer thinking, and skills people can use between meetings. Typical concerns she addresses include trauma and abuse, family of origin issues, codependency, career and purpose questions, postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, and compassion fatigue.
Vicki also helps people work through forgiveness, guilt and shame, self-esteem, and self-love. Therapy is collaborative and paced to the individual's needs. Vicki encourages small, achievable changes and offers steady support as people work toward a more balanced, meaningful life.
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
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LCSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 35 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Texas |
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Online support options
Evidence-Based Approaches and Online Support
Vicki draws on evidence-based therapeutic techniques and pairs them with creative tools when they fit a person's needs. One approach focuses on practical coping skills and problem solving to reduce anxiety and manage stress; it teaches concrete steps to use between sessions. Another approach emphasizes processing difficult emotions and life events to address depression, grief, trauma, and family of origin issues; it helps people name feelings and work through them at a steady pace.Choosing the best approach is collaborative. Vicki will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which techniques and creative options to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility for different rhythms of life. Video calls let people have real-time conversations and see one another, phone sessions work well when video is not possible, and live chat or text-based messaging supports quick check-ins or ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy schedule and to keep continuity when life gets disrupted.
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