About Dr Vicky Markham

Meet the psychotherapist and author who transforms painful experiences into wisdom through exploring the conditioning behind them.

Dr Vicky Markham is a former psychotherapist and professor, who continues to inspire others through her writing, classes, and talks.

She is the author of, From An African Beginning, a journey to clarity, a book about her healing journey from complex PTSD to psychological and spiritual understanding.

She spent her childhood in Africa, in Angola and Zimbabwe, coming to the US at seventeen to go to college in CA in 1969, at the height of the counterculture, a difficult transition. She is the third generation of her American family to live in Africa. She saw the beginning of two wars for independence from colonial rule, and had four years as the only white student in an all black high school during apartheid years. These experiences, plus her own family’s dysfunction, created a form of Complex PTSD that she sought to heal for most of her adult life, finding healing in both psychotherapy and meditation practices. Her healing methods are not limited to PTSD, but are universal to many emotional issues.

Vicky has a doctorate in psychology, and thirty years of experience in psychotherapy private practice. She taught psychological skills both academically and in communities. She received specialized training in conflict resolution, in the Enneagram personality system, and in Hakomi somatic therapy. She worked with Vietnam Veterans in two different clinical settings. In her private practice she specialized in relationship and divorce issues.

She also has thirty years experience with meditation, and exploring alternative spiritual insights such as NDEs and Christian mystics.

Her life experiences included being a step mother, going through a divorce, multicultural living, care giving her parents, and family polarization.

She is remarkably open to hearing differing points of view, and able to bring people together.