About Victor
Victor Grimes is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with two decades of experience. He practices from Georgia and focuses on helping people regain balance when stress, anxiety, depression, grief, or life changes feel overwhelming. He works with a wide range of concerns including relationship and intimacy issues, parenting stress, addiction, ADHD, and trauma and abuse.
Victor also supports people facing career strain, anger, low self-esteem, and complex situations like blended family challenges or chronic illness.
Background and approach
He brings practical care to each conversation. In sessions Victor adapts his approach to fit each person's needs. He draws from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, the Gottman Method, Motivational Interviewing, psychodynamic ideas, and solution-focused strategies.
That variety lets him focus on thought patterns, communication, motivation, or brief goal-oriented work as needed. Victor spent many years working with people who have developmental disabilities and with those facing emotional and mental disorders. That background shapes his calm, patient style and his focus on realistic steps forward.
He aims to identify and change limiting thoughts and habits while building clearer goals. People who choose him will find straightforward conversation and practical tools. He helps clients set achievable steps, talk through painful experiences, and rebuild confidence.
Victor believes steady effort and thoughtful support lead to better day-to-day functioning.
Approach, goals, and online options
Victor often combines Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Motivational Interviewing in online work. CBT focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to reduce anxiety and depression. Motivational Interviewing helps people clarify what matters to them and find internal reasons to change behaviors like addiction or unhealthy habits.Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will discuss your goals, preferences, and history and then recommend which methods to try first. That discussion is collaborative and may shift as progress is made or new priorities emerge.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, coaching-style support, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These formats give flexibility to fit therapy into a busy life.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Georgia, District of Columbia, Texas
- Languages
- English