About Vicki
Vicki Bauer is a licensed mental health counselor who focuses on practical help for people feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, or life changes. She has 34 years of experience and speaks English. Vicki works with parents and individuals coping with challenges such as ADHD, autism spectrum traits, mood disorders, and relationship strain.
Her style is straightforward and compassionate. Sessions often focus on concrete steps clients can try between meetings.
Background and approach
Vicki blends talking therapies with problem-solving and life skills coaching to reduce daily strain and build new routines. She has a long history supporting people affected by intellectual disability and autism, and she also helps those dealing with trauma, anger, low self-esteem, and career or parenting stress.
Vicki uses techniques that aim to change unhelpful thoughts and teach new coping skills while honoring each person’s experience. In therapy she pays attention to family patterns, communication problems, and how past relationships affect current behavior. She also offers coaching-style work for people who want clearer goals and faster, practical change.
Sessions can address sleep problems, impulsivity, caregiver stress, and feelings of shame or abandonment. Vicki practices in Florida and accepts international clients. Her approach is intended to be accessible and focused on usable strategies, so families and individuals can manage daily life more effectively.
Approaches That Fit Your Life Online
Client-Centered Therapy is about listening and shaping the work around what matters to the client. It helps people feel understood and decide the pace and goals of change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical skills to reduce anxiety, manage mood, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the work and will be a shared process. The therapist will help identify which methods match your goals and your day-to-day needs. Together you can try different tools and adjust the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video works well for face-to-face conversation and skill practice. Phone sessions can be a good fit when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat and text let people send quick updates, do shorter check-ins, or fit sessions into a busy day. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and caregiving responsibilities.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English