About Vicki
Vicki Hart is a licensed clinical social worker who uses practical, straightforward methods to help people manage stress, anxiety, grief, and life transitions. She writes and talks plainly, and aims to make therapy feel usable from the first session. Vicki combines clinical experience with coaching to focus on problem solving and personal growth.
She began her career doing cognitive testing at Baylor College of Medicine and then moved into clinical and management roles in hospitals and research centers.
Background and approach
Over 17 years she worked with people facing caregiver strain, grief, and challenges related to aging parents. She taught Stress Management for eight years and developed skills in palliative care and support after traumatic loss. Vicki also has international experience living and working in Japan, Singapore, and Germany.
While overseas she helped set up counseling services on Army bases and provided community education and aftercare following hospitalization. That background informs her work with people navigating cultural change and relocation stress. Her practice blends Client-Centered approaches, Cognitive Behavioral techniques, mindfulness, and solution-focused work.
In sessions she helps people set concrete goals, practice new coping skills, and shift everyday habits that get in the way. She layers coaching methods when clients want to connect changes to work or leadership outcomes. Vicki holds LCSW licensure and brings both clinical and coaching perspectives to each case.
She encourages a collaborative conversation to map clear next steps toward calmer daily life and better functioning.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online work
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and working from your goals. The therapist follows your lead, reflects what matters to you, and helps you find solutions that fit daily life. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) looks at how thoughts, feelings, and actions interact. CBT offers concrete tools to change unhelpful thought patterns and develop coping skills for anxiety, depression, or stress.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. Vicki will collaborate with each person to test methods and adjust based on goals and preferences. Together you will set small, measurable steps and track progress so the approach fits your situation and pace.
Online formats make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules. Video calls let you use visual cues for a full conversation, phone sessions work when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text-based messaging allow brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options increase flexibility for work, travel, caregiving, or living abroad, while keeping focus on practical strategies that transfer to everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Grief
- Career difficulties
Also works with
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Life purpose
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 17 years
- Licensed
- California, New Mexico
- Languages
- English