Vickie Lucero
Experienced Colorado counselor who adapts to your needs
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed in
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Vickie
Vickie Lucero is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in Colorado with 16 years of experience as an LPC and decades more working in mental health settings. She brings broad experience from roles in community mental health, Department of Human Services work, inpatient and outpatient addiction treatment, and nonprofit clinics.
Vickie aims to meet people where they are and build a practical plan together. Her style is flexible and straightforward.
Background and approach
She selects therapy methods based on each person’s situation rather than using a single approach for everyone. Sessions focus on clear goals, short-term strategies when helpful, and learning skills that can be used between appointments. Vickie commonly helps with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, and issues around identity and intimacy.
She also works with sleep problems, parenting challenges, anger, self-esteem, career changes, bipolar disorder, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Her practice includes attention to family-related concerns and related stressors. In the room she blends practical tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Solution-Focused Therapy with client-centered listening and motivational techniques.
Mindfulness is used to help with stress and grounding. The aim is to make therapy useful day-to-day, not just theoretical. She communicates in English and practices in Colorado.
Vickie invites people who want a collaborative, down-to-earth approach to consider working together to set goals and try manageable steps toward change.
Practical approaches for online counseling
Vickie often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which focuses on listening and responding to each person’s experience so they feel understood and can set meaningful goals. This approach helps when someone needs a supportive space to talk through difficult feelings and make decisions.She also draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify unhelpful thoughts and build concrete skills. CBT is useful for worries, mood challenges, sleep problems, and some addiction-related patterns because it emphasizes practical exercises and behavioral changes.
Mindfulness techniques are used to help people manage stress and stay grounded in the moment. Simple breathing and attention exercises are taught and practiced, often between sessions, to reduce reactivity and improve focus.
Finding the right mix of methods is part of the work. The therapist collaborates with each person to decide which approaches match their needs, goals, and preferences, and adjusts the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to support different lifestyles and schedules. These options make it easier to attend regularly, practice skills between sessions, and fit therapy into a busy life.
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
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Colorado
- Languages
- English
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