About Victoria
Victoria Scott is an LPC (Licensed Professional Counselor) with 11 years of clinical experience. She uses a person-centered style that focuses on respect and unconditional positive regard. Victoria aims to make the first steps into counseling feel manageable for people who are worried or unsure.
She blends practical therapies to address stress, anxiety, depression, trauma, and addiction. Sessions are tailored to the individual and built around clear goals. Her approach emphasizes listening first, then creating a treatment plan that fits each person’s situation.
How Victoria works
Victoria has worked across a range of settings and with many different concerns. She draws on life experience as a parent to inform her understanding of family and parenting challenges. This background often helps when talking through relationship, intimacy, or caregiving strains.
In the room she uses concrete strategies from cognitive behavioral therapy and mindfulness alongside acceptance and commitment ideas. Dialectical behavior therapy skills and solution-focused thinking are available when they match a person’s needs. The emphasis is on learning tools that can be used between sessions to manage mood, sleep, cravings, or anger.
Her practice includes support for grief, career stress, LGBT issues, ADHD, and compassion fatigue. Victoria encourages questions and works collaboratively when planning next steps. To begin, people are invited to complete the initial intake and schedule a first session.
Victoria lists 7 ways of working on the entry:
What Victoria works with
The areas below are the ones Victoria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Family conflicts
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 11 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Mississippi |
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Online support options
Using therapeutic skills in online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice difficult thoughts without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match their values. It can be useful for anxiety, depression, and life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying and changing unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns to improve mood and daily functioning. It is commonly used for anxiety, depression, sleeping problems, and addiction. Mindfulness Therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to lower reactivity and improve emotional regulation; it pairs well with other approaches for stress and trauma.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences. That process includes trying techniques, checking what helps, and adjusting the plan as needed so it feels useful and realistic.
The original biography does not specify session formats, so confirm current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules, allow for shorter check-ins when needed, and remove travel time. It also means people can practice skills in the places they live and return to topics between meetings. Licensed professionals adapt exercises and homework to the online setting so sessions remain practical and goal focused.
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A practical next step
Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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