About Vicki
Vicki Marcum is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) with four decades of clinical experience. She uses a client-centered approach at first and then adapts methods to fit each person’s needs. Vicki aims to create a straightforward, steady space where parents and adults can talk about stress, grief, depression, ADHD, trauma, and relationship concerns.
She has worked across many settings, including inpatient psychiatric care, outpatient community mental health, emergency and crisis intervention, and day treatment programs.
Background and approach
That background means she is familiar with both short-term crisis work and longer-term support. Vicki has also provided services in schools, hospitals, churches, and social service agencies. In sessions she starts from a supportive, listening stance and builds trust before choosing other approaches that match the issue.
She uses attachment-based ideas to look at relationship patterns and cognitive behavioral techniques to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. Her style balances compassion with occasional challenge to help people rethink assumptions. Vicki’s work has included case management, parenting support, and services through the child welfare system.
She has experience with a wide range of concerns beyond common mood disorders, such as eating and body image issues, abandonment and attachment concerns, communication or control problems, and coping with life changes. She offers therapy in English and practices from Illinois.
Sessions may include focused talk therapy, practical coping strategies, and collaborative planning so parents and adults leave with clear next steps.
Therapeutic approaches and online care that fit your life
Vicki draws on attachment-based ideas and cognitive behavioral techniques to address relationship patterns and day-to-day thinking that keeps people stuck. Attachment-based work looks at how early and current relationships shape expectations and reactions, which can be useful for parenting stress, intimacy-related issues, and family-of-origin concerns. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying and changing thoughts and behaviors that feed anxiety, depression, and anger, offering concrete tools to practice between sessions.Finding the right approach is a shared process. The therapist starts with a client-centered stance to build trust, then discusses options and tailors methods to goals, preferences, and the specific problem. This lets the person stay in charge of the direction and use approaches that feel most helpful over time.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for a deeper conversational session and visual cues, phone can fit into a busy day with less bandwidth, and chat or messaging supports quick check-ins or shorter exchanges. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a workday or parenting schedule and to continue care when in-person sessions are not practical.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 40 years
- Licensed
- Illinois
- Languages
- English
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