Vicki Zeitner

Vicki Zeitner is a licensed professional counselor in Oregon with 17 years of clinical experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, low mood, difficult relationship patterns, and the disruptions that come with life transitions and loss. She works with clients to improve communication, pursue better work-life balance, regulate troubling moods and anxiety, and deepen self-understanding.

Her clinical background includes work in community mental health agencies, outpatient counseling centers, and inpatient treatment programs, and she spent nearly 15 years in academia which gives her particular insight into university life. Her life experience spans more than 60 years, with roots on the east coast and a life established on the west, including time living in both urban and rural settings and exposure to varied cultures.

Vicki adapts her therapeutic approach to each client’s needs. She commonly uses solution-focused therapy and applies Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for anxiety and depression. She believes that the way people talk to themselves and frame experience affects mood and coping, and that habits of thought and behavior shaped by significant others and early events can be shifted by bringing mindful awareness to them.

Her counseling style is casual, conversational, accepting, and curious. She helps clients clarify values and strengths, poses thoughtful questions, offers alternatives, and honors clients’ choices. She may provide resources to support progress between sessions and is committed to sharing practical knowledge about mental health to empower those she sees. Please note that she does not treat active addictions, acute psychiatric conditions, active eating disorders, or self-harm.

Vicki welcomes all forms of diversity and believes everyone deserves to be treated with dignity. She is a good fit for people who are introspective, able to reflect on their experience, willing to tolerate discomfort in the service of growth, motivated for change, and prepared to apply therapeutic work outside of sessions. With the many challenges people face today, she offers another set of eyes and ears to help regain perspective or simply to be understood and supported through a difficult time.