- Client-centered approach
- CBT techniques
- Mindfulness practices
About Vicki
Vicki Farley is an Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with 20 years of experience in private practice and addiction treatment settings. She works with adults facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting challenges, and issues like ADHD and compassion fatigue. She also lists work related to guilt and shame among her focus areas.
Vicki has helped people with problems that range from straightforward to complex. Her clients have included a wide age range, from teens to seniors, and she has experience supporting people managing medical issues alongside emotional concerns. She brings years of clinical practice to sessions and draws on different therapeutic ideas depending on what a person needs.
Her approach is grounded in client-centered principles influenced by Carl Rogers, with an interest in Jungian and Adlerian perspectives. She commonly uses cognitive behavioral techniques when they fit the problem presented, and she includes mindfulness and DBT tools as helpful options. In practice this means listening first, then suggesting practical steps to address thoughts, feelings, and behavior.
Vicki describes her role as primarily a listener who helps people tell their stories and find workable answers. She matches methods to the person rather than sticking to a single method. Her background includes work in addictions programs and private practice across a broad range of life concerns.
People can expect conversational sessions that move between reflection and concrete skills. Before booking, confirm the current session formats offered and any other practical details.
How her approaches translate to online work
Client-centered therapy focuses on listening, reflection, and supporting the person to find their own solutions. Online sessions using that approach usually involve largely conversational work and space to tell your story while the therapist reflects and clarifies.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) emphasizes understanding links between thoughts, feelings, and actions. In an online session CBT often looks like identifying unhelpful thoughts, testing them, and practicing new behaviors between meetings to reduce anxiety or guilt.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) contributes skills for managing intense emotions and improving distress tolerance. When useful, DBT exercises and short skills coaching can be integrated into regular sessions to help with overwhelming shame or strong urges related to addiction or mood problems.
Choosing the right mix of approaches is collaborative. The therapist will work with the client to decide which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting over time based on what helps most.
The biography does not list specific session formats, so confirm available online and in-person options before booking. Online appointments can make it easier to fit meetings into a busy week, allow shorter check-ins when needed, and remove commute time so people can use their break or evening more efficiently.
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Experience
20+ years
Listed in
Alabama
Languages
English
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she help with?
She works with stress, anxiety, grief, depression, addictions, relationship and family concerns, parenting issues, ADHD, and lists guilt and shame among her focus areas.
How would she approach feelings of guilt or shame?
She listens first and then uses client-centered conversation alongside CBT and mindfulness tools to address unhelpful thoughts and patterns linked to guilt or shame.
How much clinical experience does she have?
She has 20 years of experience working in private practice and addictions treatment programs.
What credential does she hold and where is she based?
She is an Alabama Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Alabama.
Can I work with her if I live outside the United States?
Sessions are offered in English and she is not accepting international clients at this time.
Which session formats are available?
The original biography does not specify session formats; confirm current online and in-person options before booking.
How much do sessions cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.
What do I do to get started?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If you are in danger or thinking about harming yourself, use the crisis numbers.