Works with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
How Vicki works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCSW
- Licensed in
- Illinois
- Years in practice
- 40
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Vicki
Vicki Marcum is a licensed clinical social worker with more than 40 years of experience. She brings a calm, straightforward manner and focuses on helping people manage stress, anger, anxiety, grief, and life changes. Vicki works with individuals on relationship and family concerns, career stress, self-esteem, and emotional struggles such as depression and bipolar mood issues.
She uses a client-centered way to begin therapy so people feel heard and understood.
Background and approach
Once a trusting connection is in place, she introduces approaches that fit the person's needs. That might include cognitive behavioral ideas to change unhelpful patterns, attachment-focused ways to look at close relationships, or emotionally focused work to understand strong feelings.
Over four decades she has worked in inpatient psychiatric settings, outpatient community mental health, emergency and crisis intervention, outpatient day treatment, and in-home programs. She has experience supporting people through parenting and blended family challenges, adoption and foster care questions, codependency, and complex family-of-origin issues. Vicki is based in Illinois and holds the credential Licensed Clinical Social Worker, LCSW.
She draws on practical ways to help people make small changes that add up. Sessions are conversational and often include steps to try between meetings. Her style is warm and direct.
She encourages clients to lead their work while offering challenges when needed. The goal is clearer choices, more calm in day-to-day life, and better ways to handle anger and stress.
What Vicki works with
Everything Vicki lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Vicki's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Depression
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Intimacy-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Coping with life changes
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Mood disorders
- Personality disorders
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Vicki lists
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
Approach-driven care delivered online
Vicki commonly uses client-centered methods and cognitive behavioral techniques to guide online work. Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, empathy, and helping people set the pace of their healing, which is useful for building trust and talking through issues like grief, parenting stress, or relationship concerns. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts and behaviors interact and provides concrete skills to reduce anxiety, manage anger, and change unhelpful patterns.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will collaborate with each person to choose methods that match their goals, needs, and preferences. Together they review what is working and adjust the plan over time so sessions stay useful and realistic.
Online options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when connection and body language matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or to fit a short break from work. Live chat and text messaging work well for quick check-ins, brief reflection, or when someone prefers writing over speaking. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life while maintaining continuity of care.
Questions people ask about Vicki
What concerns does Vicki help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, anger, depression, grief, relationship and family issues, parenting concerns, eating and body image problems, ADHD, bipolar mood issues, and coping with life changes.
How would you describe her therapy style?
She begins with a client-centered approach to build trust and then uses techniques that fit the individual, such as cognitive behavioral ideas, attachment-focused work, or emotionally focused methods.
What is her background and experience?
Vicki has over 40 years of clinical experience across inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient community mental health, emergency and crisis services, outpatient day treatment, and in-home programs.
What credentials and region are listed?
She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW - practicing in Illinois.
Which languages are offered and can she see international clients?
Sessions are offered in English. She is not accepting international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs and schedules.
How is cost handled?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin working with her?
Use the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule sessions according to therapist availability.