Vickie Griffin, LCMHC
Calm, practical support for everyday challenges
Explore online therapy optionsWorks with
- Anger
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
How Vickie works
Practical facts
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Years in practice
- 10
- Languages
- English
- Session format
- Online, through our partner platform
About Vickie
Vickie Griffin is a licensed clinical mental health counselor in North Carolina with 10 years of experience. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, relationship strains, grief, anger, and life transitions. Vickie aims to meet people where they are and help them find steady steps forward.
She starts by listening and treating each person as the expert on their own life. Sessions tend to be warm and nonjudgmental, while also offering gentle challenge when growth calls for it.
Background and approach
Vickie emphasizes building on strengths and spotting small, doable changes. Her work blends talk and real tasks. That may include practicing new ways to handle strong emotions, trying different thinking patterns, or testing short experiments between sessions.
She uses techniques drawn from client-centered work, cognitive behavioral ideas, dialectical behavior approaches, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing. Vickie has seen people cope with many concerns including depression, ADHD, compassion fatigue, intimacy issues, and career stress. She also supports those facing family-related topics like adoption and blended family stress, caregiving burden, and communication problems.
The focus is practical coping and clearer next steps. People who find her helpful often want straightforward strategies along with steady encouragement. If someone is looking for a calm, direct counselor to work through anger, anxiety, or life changes, Vickie offers focused support and collaborative planning.
What Vickie works with
Everything Vickie lists, in the therapist's own terms. Anger is the reason this directory exists; the rest tells you what usually sits alongside it in Vickie's practice.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- Grief
- Intimacy-related issues
- Anger management
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
- Bipolar disorder
- Compassion fatigue
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Postpartum depression
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Approaches Vickie lists
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- 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.
How therapy methods translate to online care
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on understanding each person's experience and offering empathy and acceptance; it helps when someone needs a listening space to sort out feelings and values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which can be useful for anxiety, anger, and mood management. Dialectical Behavior Therapy, DBT, adds emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills that help with intense emotions and relationship struggles.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of therapy. The therapist works together with each person to decide which methods fit best for their goals and daily life. That collaborative process can include trying an approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on how well it is helping.
Online sessions give flexible ways to connect. Video calls approximate in-person conversation and allow face-to-face work. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is low or being on camera feels difficult. Live chat or text messaging work well for brief check-ins, tracking progress, or sharing notes between sessions. These options make it easier to fit counseling into a busy schedule and to practice skills in real time.
Questions people ask about Vickie
What kinds of concerns does this therapist address?
Vickie works with stress, anxiety, depression, grief, anger, relationship and family issues, and many life changes. She also focuses on areas like ADHD, compassion fatigue, intimacy concerns, and career stress.
How would you describe the therapy style?
The approach is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions combine listening with practical tasks, gentle challenge, and skill practice drawn from several therapeutic methods.
What is Vickie's professional background?
She has 10 years of professional experience working with people facing emotional and life stressors. That experience includes supporting clients through mood, relationship, and adjustment concerns.
Where is this therapist licensed and located?
Vickie is a licensed clinical mental health counselor with a North Carolina LCMHC credential and practices from North Carolina.
In which languages are sessions offered?
Sessions are offered in English. International clients are not accepted at this time.
What session formats are offered?
Therapy is available by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different scheduling needs and preferences.
How does billing and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability and uses a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
What are the first steps to begin therapy?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and then schedule sessions according to the therapist's availability.