Vicki Bonham, LMHC

Vicki Bonham is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in Florida with five years of counseling experience. She brings a background in education and long experience speaking and coaching, and she combines those skills to help people find clearer direction. She meets people where they are and focuses on practical steps they can try between sessions.

Vicki helps with stress and anxiety, depression, self-esteem, and motivation. She also supports people facing relationship struggles, grief, trauma, and LGBT-related concerns. Her work includes intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, parenting stress, career changes, and compassion fatigue.

She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as one of her primary tools to help people identify unhelpful thoughts and change patterns. She also draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Attachment-Based ideas to shape goals and build stronger connections to values. Vicki adapts the approach to each person's needs rather than following a single formula.

Sessions are collaborative and straightforward. Conversations focus on specific, manageable steps and real-life problems. Clients can expect a respectful tone and an emphasis on building skills they can use right away.

Vicki describes her role as supportive and empowering. She will work with each person to create a plan that fits their goals and daily life. Taking the first step is often the hardest part, and she aims to make that step as clear and doable as possible.

Approaches that guide online sessions

Vicki often uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people notice unhelpful thought patterns, test those thoughts, and try new behaviors that reduce anxiety or low mood. She also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to help people clarify personal values and take meaningful action even when emotions are strong. When attachment concerns come up, she brings Attachment-Based ideas to help people understand patterns in close relationships and build healthier connections.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Vicki will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan over time based on what feels most helpful.

Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat can be useful for shorter check-ins, and text messaging supports ongoing reflection between appointments. These options help people fit counseling into busy schedules and different life circumstances.