Dr. Vicki

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đź’ś LMFT | Speaker | Consultant | CEO
✨ Specialty: relational trauma and family therapy with foster and adoptive youth
đź“– Evidence-based & compassionate counseling treatment

06/01/2026

Love is not always enough to create felt safety. 🤍
Especially in foster and adoptive relationships, children may deeply need connection… while still struggling to trust it.
Sometimes the behaviors that hurt the most are actually protecting the deepest wounds.
Watch as Dr. Vicki explains why. 🧠✨

05/29/2026

If parenting feels exhausting, confusing, or like nothing is working anymore… there may be more happening beneath the behavior than you realize.
Dr. Vicki’s Parent Coaching helps parents better understand:
✨ big behaviors
✨ emotional dysregulation
✨ attachment & trauma responses
✨ connection-based parenting
✨ how to respond without losing yourself in the process

This is support for parents who want a different lens — not more shame. 🧠

Comment COACHING for more information or to book. ✨

If your child’s behavior feels confusing… it doesn’t mean you’re failing. 🤍Sometimes it means you need a different lens....
05/28/2026

If your child’s behavior feels confusing… it doesn’t mean you’re failing. 🤍
Sometimes it means you need a different lens. đź‘€

Most parents are trying to manage behavior without ever being taught how to understand what’s happening underneath it.

✨ Behavior is communication
✨ Your response shapes the pattern
✨ Connection changes everything

When you begin to understand the why behind your child’s behavior, you stop reacting out of frustration and start responding with more clarity, confidence, and calm. 🧠

This is the heart behind Dr. Vicki’s Parent Coaching — personalized support to help parents better understand behavior, reduce escalation, and create more connection within the home. 🤍

Dr. Vicki also offers a self-paced training + coursebook for parents and professionals wanting to learn this approach more deeply at their own pace.

đź’¬ Type COACHING for more information and scheduling.

Some parents are doing EVERYTHING they can… and still feel like nothing is working.That’s usually not because they’re ba...
05/26/2026

Some parents are doing EVERYTHING they can… and still feel like nothing is working.
That’s usually not because they’re bad parents.

It’s because traditional parenting advice often misses what’s happening underneath the behavior. 🧠

When children are struggling with trauma, attachment wounds, anxiety, emotional dysregulation, adoption/foster care experiences, or chronic overwhelm… behavior is rarely just about “not listening.”

And parents deserve support too. 🤍

Dr. Vicki’s parent coaching is designed to help parents:
✨ understand behavior differently
✨ feel less overwhelmed
✨ respond with more confidence
✨ learn trauma-informed, attachment-focused strategies that actually help

This is not about perfection.
It’s about support, understanding, and practical guidance for the moments that feel hardest.

If you’ve been feeling stuck, exhausted, or unsure what to do next — you do not have to navigate this alone.

📧 [email protected]
📧 [email protected]

DM the word COACHING for more information.

05/20/2026

You’ve tried the charts.
The consequences.
The rewards.
The parenting advice.

…and you’re still feeling stuck, exhausted, and wondering why nothing seems to truly help. 💔

That’s exactly why this training was created.

Because behavior is communication.
And when we learn to look beneath the surface instead of just reacting to the behavior itself, everything begins to shift. 🧠✨

This training will help you better understand your child through the lens of relationship, nervous system regulation, and felt safety — so you can respond with more clarity, confidence, and connection. 🤍

If this sounds like your family… this is for you.
✨ Link in bio

Some behaviors don’t make sense…until you understand what they’re protecting. 🧠What looks like defiance, control, or dis...
05/20/2026

Some behaviors don’t make sense…
until you understand what they’re protecting. 🧠

What looks like defiance, control, or distance
is often a child navigating a relational safety gap.

They’re not asking, “What are the rules?”
They’re asking, “Am I safe here yet?” 🤍

When we shift how we see behavior,
we change how we respond—and that’s where healing begins.

✨ If this resonates, my training walks you through exactly how to understand and respond to these patterns.
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Your child is safe…but that doesn’t always mean they feel safe.Safety isn’t just physical—it’s emotional, relational, an...
05/12/2026

Your child is safe…
but that doesn’t always mean they feel safe.

Safety isn’t just physical—it’s emotional, relational, and felt in the body. 🧠🤍

When kids don’t feel safe, their behavior will reflect that—
not because they’re being difficult…
but because their nervous system is trying to protect them.

✨ When we understand this, everything shifts.

05/07/2026

You don’t need more strategies. You need a different lens. 👀 Because behavior isn’t random. It’s communication.
When we stop asking “How do I fix this?” and start asking “What is this telling me?”

Everything changes. The response shifts. The connection deepens. And the behavior… begins to make sense. 🧠🤍

This is the work. This is the foundation.

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2350 W. Shaw Avenue, Suite 116
Fresno, CA
93711

Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 2pm

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+15595734194

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