Vickie Lane, LPC

Vickie Lane is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Virginia who helps people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and substance use concerns. She works with individuals navigating parenting challenges, relationship and family conflict, and career or life transitions. Her tone is direct and supportive, focused on practical steps people can apply between sessions.

Lane uses clear listening and straightforward questions to make sessions feel calm and focused. She creates an open space where people can say what they think and feel without judgment. Work together looks like setting simple goals, trying small changes, and tracking what helps.

Her approach draws on cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and shift them. She also uses client-centered methods to follow each person’s priorities and dialectical behavior skills for emotion regulation. Mindfulness and motivational interviewing are added when useful to build awareness and strengthen motivation.

Across 15 years of practice Lane has helped people with addictions, bipolar concerns, trauma and abuse, anger, intimacy-related issues, and low self-esteem. She also supports those managing chronic illness, blended family stress, communication problems, grief after separation, and codependency patterns.

Sessions can include concrete coping skills, problem-solving around day-to-day challenges, and coaching for career or parenting decisions. The work is collaborative and paced to what each person can handle. Small, steady steps are emphasized over quick fixes.

How CBT and Other Approaches Work Online

Vickie often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people notice and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. CBT aims to break cycles that keep stress, low mood, or anxiety going by practicing small, concrete skills and testing new ways of thinking. Client-centered therapy is also part of her work and emphasizes listening and responding to each person’s priorities so sessions follow what matters most to them.

She may draw on dialectical behavior therapy techniques when emotional regulation or intense reactions are a problem. DBT skills teach practical ways to tolerate distress, manage strong emotions, and improve interpersonal effectiveness. The therapist will discuss these approaches with the client and together decide which methods best match the person’s goals and preferences.r>
Online sessions can be held by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and skill demonstration, phone sessions can fit a busy schedule or use less bandwidth, and chat or messaging can work for shorter check-ins or step-by-step coaching. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, school, or parenting routines while keeping the focus on useful skills and steady progress.