About Vickie
Vickie Lucero is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Colorado with 16 years in the field as an LPC and many more years working in mental health roles. She has worked in settings such as the Department of Human Services, community mental health, inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment, and nonprofit health clinics.
Vickie aims to meet people where they are and tailor help to individual needs. Vickie describes her approach as eclectic and practical.
Background and approach
She draws on a few core methods to guide sessions and adjusts techniques to match each person's situation. Conversations focus on current problems, workable steps, and skills people can use between meetings. She commonly applies elements of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing, along with client-centered and mindfulness ideas.
These approaches are used to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction-related concerns, and ADHD among other issues. Prior work has exposed her to many types of life challenges, including trauma and abuse, grief and separation, caregiver and first responder stress, chronic illness, and relationship and intimacy-related struggles. That background informs a down-to-earth style that prioritizes clear goals and steady progress.
Sessions are meant to be collaborative and straightforward. Vickie invites people to describe what feels most urgent, then helps set manageable goals and steps to move forward.
How approaches translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy emphasizes listening and responding to what matters most to the person. Online sessions keep the focus on each person's experience and priorities, with the therapist following the client's lead to set goals and pace.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at patterns of thinking and behavior and teaches practical skills to change them. In remote work this often includes short exercises, thought records, and behavior experiments people use between sessions to track progress.
Mindfulness Therapy brings attention to the present moment and simple awareness skills that reduce reactivity. These practices can be guided in a video call or described and practiced via phone or messaging, depending on what suits the client.
Finding the right approach is part of the process and happens collaboratively. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or has not helped in the past, then test methods and adjust as needed to find the best fit.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for face-to-face interaction and guided skill practice, phone works well when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed, and chat or text can suit people who prefer typing or want frequent brief touchpoints. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives and keep work moving forward.
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What this therapist 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
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