About Vicki
Vicki Bonham is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida. She brings five years of counseling experience and a long history in education and coaching to her clinical work. Vicki focuses on helping people cope with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and relationship or intimacy concerns.
She aims to create a respectful and compassionate space where clients feel heard and supported. Before moving into full-time counseling, she spent decades in education as a teacher and counselor.
Background and approach
That background shaped her practical approach to problem solving and communication. She also works as a motivational speaker and life coach, which informs her focus on motivation and confidence building. In sessions she adapts the dialog and plan to each person's needs.
Vicki uses straightforward methods to teach skills for coping, improving sleep, and managing emotional distress. She also helps people work through issues around identity, self-esteem, caregiving stress, and career transitions. Her practice draws on several clinical approaches, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based methods.
These approaches guide concrete exercises, values-based goals, and relationship-focused work. The therapist uses these tools to help people set practical steps and build routines that fit daily life. Vicki offers remote formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging to make ongoing work easier to keep up.
She encourages people to reach out when they are ready to talk and to take small steps toward change.
Therapeutic approaches that translate well to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people clarify what matters to them and take small, meaningful actions aligned with those values. It often focuses on reducing the impact of painful thoughts and moving toward chosen goals. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools for changing unhelpful patterns. It can help with anxiety, sleep problems, and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on connection and patterns learned in relationships and can help people improve communication and emotional safety in close relationships.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to the client's needs, goals, and preferences. Early sessions often include trying a few techniques and adjusting the plan based on what feels most helpful.
Online formats in this practice include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. Video calls are useful for in-depth work and exercises that benefit from face-to-face interaction. Phone sessions are convenient when bandwidth is limited or when someone needs a shorter check-in. Live chat and text-based messaging can be used for brief updates, coaching-style support, or check-ins between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to keep momentum between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English