Vicki Lannerholm , LPCC, LPC

Vicki Lannerholm is a licensed counselor who blends humanistic and practical approaches to help people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, trauma, and life transitions. She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and brings 15 years of clinical experience to sessions. Vicki speaks English and Swedish and works with people across Michigan and beyond. Vicki takes a straightforward, people-focused approach. She emphasizes listening first and then offering psychological information that fits each person’s situation. Sessions aim to build awareness, teach useful tools, and help clients try new ways of thinking and behaving. Therapy may include skills practice, tracking patterns, and learning strategies to manage sleep, focus, mood, or relationship concerns. Her background includes work in behavioral management, faith-based counseling, academic teaching, and roles in clinical and public mental health settings. That variety informs a flexible, practical style that draws on evidence-informed methods like cognitive behavioral ideas, mindfulness, and emotion-focused work. She frames problems in everyday terms and focuses on concrete steps people can take between sessions. Vicki frequently helps people dealing with career questions, parenting strain, intimacy-related and relationship challenges, midlife transitions, and issues common to veterans or first responders. She also supports coping with aging, end-of-life concerns, and the emotional impact of divorce or separation. People who choose Vicki can expect collaborative work that balances learning and real-world practice. She views clients as the experts on their lives and partners with them to set goals and track progress.

Therapeutic approaches for online support and change

Client-centered therapy focuses on listening and understanding a person’s experience. It centers the conversation on what matters to the client and helps people clarify goals and make decisions that fit their values and life. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, helps identify patterns of thought and behavior that keep problems going and teaches specific steps to change them, which can help with anxiety, sleep, and mood issues.

Vicki treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will talk with the client about goals, try methods that fit their needs, and adjust strategies over time. The plan is collaborative so people can test what helps most and keep what works.

Online sessions offer flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video works well for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is limited, and brief check-ins or homework support fit well with live chat or text messaging. These options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family, or travel while maintaining continuity of care.