About Vikki
Vikki Gardner helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood, or struggles in their close relationships. She offers straightforward support for trauma and abuse, self-esteem concerns, and issues that affect day-to-day coping. Vikki speaks plainly and focuses on practical steps people can try between sessions.
She brings 23 years of clinical experience and holds a Licensed Professional Counselor credential and a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor credential. Vikki is licensed in Michigan and Ohio and draws on long-term experience working with depression, mood disorders, postpartum depression, and seasonal affective disorder.
How Vikki works
Her work also addresses challenges like communication problems, abandonment worries, dissociation, and the fallout from divorce or separation. She helps people sort through family of origin issues and the effects of prejudice and discrimination. Vikki pays attention to safety concerns such as self-harm while helping clients build steady coping skills.
Sessions tend to focus on clear goals and small, manageable changes. Vikki encourages people to notice their own strengths and to try tools that fit their routines. She respects each person’s story and treats them as the expert on their life.
To start, she asks clients to complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedules sessions based on therapist availability. Therapy uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time, and sessions are offered in several online formats.
What Vikki works with
The areas below are the ones Vikki selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
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Training and background
| Registers | LPC, LPCC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
How therapeutic approaches work online
Many of Vikki’s methods focus on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that teach concrete skills. One common approach helps people learn practical coping strategies for anxiety and stress, such as breathing techniques, activity planning, and step-by-step exposure to feared situations. These tools aim to reduce distress and increase day-to-day functioning.Another strand of her work concentrates on processing trauma and abuse in a paced way that reduces overwhelm. This includes grounding strategies, noticing symptoms like dissociation, and building safety and stability before addressing painful memories. For depressive symptoms she helps people identify small behavioral changes and routines that lift mood and increase motivation.
Finding the right approach is a joint process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try methods that match those priorities. Clients and the therapist check in regularly and adjust the plan as needed to find what helps most.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions let people work face to face when that is helpful; phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or when a camera feels like extra effort. Live chat and text messaging provide shorter check-ins and written tools that can fit into busy days. These options make it easier to schedule care around work, childcare, and daily life.
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