About Vicki
Vicki Packheiser is a licensed clinical social worker in Texas with more than 35 years of clinical experience. She brings a calm, patient presence to sessions and respects each person’s story. Vicki draws on long practice with adults facing life transitions and emotional pain.
Vicki spent time teaching clinical skills to graduate social work students at the University of Texas. That teaching shaped how she explains options and helps people build skills.
Background and approach
She also uses expressive arts and creative painting to open new ways of saying what feels hard to name. In therapy she focuses on practical steps people can use between sessions. She helps people manage stress and anxiety, work through grief, and cope with depression.
Relationship concerns, family problems, and issues from trauma and abuse are also common topics she addresses. Other areas Vicki supports include codependency, family of origin issues, forgiveness, guilt and shame, and midlife concerns. She also works with postpartum depression, seasonal affective disorder, self-esteem, and questions about life purpose.
Compassion fatigue and career stress are additional areas she helps people navigate. Vicki’s style is warm and accepting. She aims to help people notice strengths and take small, doable steps toward change.
If someone is ready to talk about what’s weighing on them, she will listen and help plan the next steps.
Practical approaches for online healing
Vicki uses evidence-based techniques alongside creative methods to support healing. One approach focuses on building coping skills for stress and anxiety through step-by-step exercises that people can use between sessions. This helps when symptoms feel overwhelming and daily routines need simple tools to manage them.She also incorporates expressive arts and creative painting to help people access emotions that are hard to talk about. Using imagery and art can reveal patterns from family of origin issues, codependency, or grief and open new ways to work through them.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to goals and preferences, then suggest methods to try together. If something doesn’t fit, adjustments are made so the work remains practical and relevant to the person’s life.
Online formats offer flexibility for busy schedules. Video calls provide a face-to-face experience for in-depth work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text messaging supports regular, brief reflections. These options make it easier to keep continuity in care and to practice new skills between sessions.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Anger management
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Postpartum depression
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 35 years
- Licensed
- Texas
- Languages
- English