Vickie Griffin
Practical, warm support for family life
- Credentials
- LCMHC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Vickie
Vickie Griffin is a licensed clinical mental health counselor who focuses on family and parenting concerns along with related stress and relationship challenges. She aims to make therapy approachable for people feeling overwhelmed by life changes, grief, anxiety, or depression. Her style is warm and nonjudgmental, and she encourages clients to build on their own strengths as they work toward change.
In sessions she listens first and helps clients tell their story in a way that makes sense to them.
Background and approach
She values practical steps and will offer gentle challenges when they help a person move forward. Her manner is comforting, and she seeks to empower people rather than direct them from a distance.
With 10 years of experience and the credential LCMHC - Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor - she brings experience supporting people through communication problems, intimacy-related issues, and coping with caregiving stress. She also addresses concerns such as ADHD, bipolar mood challenges, anger, and self-esteem in the context of broader life stressors.
Her training includes approaches that help people change unhelpful thoughts, build coping skills, and stay present through emotional difficulty. Vickie uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness, and motivational interviewing based on each person’s needs. She practices in North Carolina and conducts sessions in English.
For parents and families wanting down-to-earth guidance, she focuses on practical strategies you can try between sessions to improve daily life.
Therapy approaches and how online sessions help
Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and supporting each person as the expert of their own life. Sessions emphasize empathy, respect, and helping people name their goals so practical steps can follow. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, works by identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and stress because it breaks problems into manageable steps.Finding the right approach is a shared process. Vickie will talk with each person about goals and try tools from different methods to see what fits best. That collaborative process may include skill practice between sessions and regular check-ins about progress.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect, including video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions around work, school, and family schedules. Therapists can use each format to teach skills, coach through difficult moments, and keep momentum between meetings, making therapy more accessible for busy households.
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.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Concrete skills for riding out strong emotion, tolerating distress, and handling relationships without things escalating. The skills are practised in daily life, so between-session support by message or phone fits naturally.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- 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
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- 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
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- North Carolina
- Languages
- English
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