About Victoria
Victoria Haltom is a licensed Master of Social Work who helps people navigate stress, anxiety, grief, relationship strain, and issues with self-esteem and mood. She offers practical support for addiction concerns, trauma and abuse, intimacy-related struggles, and sleep or eating difficulties. Victoria also assists with parenting stress, career changes, anger, compassion fatigue, and ADHD-related challenges.
Her bedside manner is straightforward and respectful. She listens first, then works with clients to set clear, manageable goals.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on real-life skills people can use between meetings. Breathing and body-based practices are offered alongside talk-based strategies. Victoria trained at the University of Southern California and holds the Michigan Licensed Master Social Worker credential, LMSW.
She has provided outpatient and telecounseling services since 2015 and has a total of 12 years in the field. Earlier work included case management at a senior independent living facility. Her approach blends somatic awareness with attachment-based and client-centered methods.
She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques and dialectical behavior strategies when they fit the client's needs. Therapy often includes simple mindfulness, breath work, and exercises to improve communication and coping. In sessions clients can expect a collaborative atmosphere where the therapist helps prioritize what feels most urgent.
Victoria aims to reduce overwhelm and restore daily functioning through steady, practical steps. She partners with clients to build skills that match their life and goals.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Somatic work helps people notice what their bodies are doing when stress or strong feelings show up. Online sessions can guide gentle breath work and simple body awareness exercises to reduce tension and ground people in the moment. Attachment-based therapy focuses on relationship patterns and emotional safety, helping people understand how past bonds shape present reactions and communication styles. Client-centered therapy emphasizes listening and working at the client’s pace, giving space for people to bring what matters most and make choices about goals.Choosing the right mix of approaches is part of the process. The therapist collaborates with each person to figure out which methods fit their needs, goals, and comfort level. That plan can change over time as progress is made or priorities shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy lives, maintain continuity during life changes, and revisit notes or tools shared in messaging. The focus remains on practical skills, honest conversation, and building steady routines that work in daily life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Existential Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Michigan
- Languages
- English