Vicki Bauer
Practical support for families and caregivers
- Credentials
- LMHC
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed in
- Florida
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Vicki
Vicki Bauer is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) with decades of experience supporting families. She focuses on practical help for parents and caregivers who feel stressed, overwhelmed, or unsure where to turn. Her tone is warm and direct, aimed at families looking for clear steps and steady support.
Vicki has spent years working with families that include individuals with intellectual disabilities, autism, Asperger syndrome, and ADHD. She offers support for the family system as well as behavioral counseling for the person with special needs.
Background and approach
That includes coaching around daily routines, behavior strategies, and life skills training. She often helps families manage worry, anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems, anger, and communication breakdowns. Vicki also addresses blended family issues, caregiver stress, codependency, and problems that come from family of origin wounds.
Her work covers many practical family concerns rather than only focusing on diagnosis labels. Her approach blends client-centered listening with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and applied behavior techniques. She uses mindfulness and solution-focused methods to create clear goals and small steps families can follow.
Sessions aim to teach skills and reduce daily chaos so home life feels more manageable. Vicki brings 34 years of experience in Florida and works with parents, siblings, and other family members. Her practice is meant to strengthen family functioning and improve everyday coping for households facing special needs and related stressors.
Therapeutic approaches and online family support
Vicki uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help families identify unhelpful thoughts and change behaviors that cause stress. CBT breaks problems into manageable parts and teaches concrete skills for mood, sleep, and anger concerns.She also draws on Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and understanding each family member's experience. This approach helps people feel heard and supports collaborative problem solving around parenting and caregiving challenges.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. Vicki will talk with the family about goals, test what works, and adjust methods based on needs and preferences. The process is collaborative and paced to fit the household.
Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy family life. Video calls and phone sessions let parents meet from home around school and care routines. Live chat and text-based messaging provide brief check-ins and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options aim to increase flexibility and make it easier to use the skills learned in real time.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
CBT looks at the link between what you think, how you feel, and what you do. You work on noticing unhelpful patterns and practising steadier responses. It suits online sessions well, because much of the work happens between appointments and can be talked through from anywhere.
Mindfulness Therapy
Attention training: noticing thoughts and physical feelings as they arrive without being carried off by them. Much of it is practice you do yourself, so guidance over video or audio works much as it would in person.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 34 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English
Next step
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