About Victor
Victor Perez is a Licensed Professional Counselor in New Jersey with six years of clinical experience. He focuses on practical, down-to-earth support for people facing stress, anxiety, mood problems, and major life changes. He speaks English and Spanish and aims to make the first steps toward help feel manageable.
He centers sessions on the person's own goals and strengths. Victor listens first, then works with each person to set clear, realistic steps.
Background and approach
He often uses straightforward skills to reduce worry, improve sleep, and manage intense emotions like anger. Victor draws on cognitive behavioral therapy to spot unhelpful thinking and create new routines. He also uses client-centered methods that keep the conversation grounded in what matters most to the person.
When needed, he brings in dialectical behavior therapy tools to build distress tolerance and better emotional regulation. Sessions typically focus on immediate problems such as panic, low mood, sleep disruption, or career stress. Victor also addresses longer-running concerns like trauma, obsessions and compulsions, relationship communication, and issues tied to identity or culture.
He supports people coping with HIV/AIDS, isolation, and the pressures many men face. People who work with Victor can expect clear goals and practical homework between meetings. He helps translate small changes into steadier progress.
If someone wants a therapist who listens, explains options plainly, and offers concrete steps, Victor provides that steady, collaborative approach.
Approaches that translate to online care
Victor uses client-centered therapy to keep the conversation focused on the person's goals and values, offering space to talk through what matters most and decide next steps. Cognitive behavioral therapy helps identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, which often translates into short exercises and homework that can be practiced between sessions. Dialectical behavior therapy provides concrete skills for managing strong emotions and reducing impulsive reactions, useful when someone needs tools for distress tolerance and emotional balance.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will listen to the person's needs, goals, and preferences and then suggest methods to try. Adjustments are made over time based on what helps most, so clients take an active role in shaping their care.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to match different lifestyles. Video works well for deeper conversations, phone is simple when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits brief check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing contact and shorter skill practice. These options make scheduling and staying consistent easier for people with busy days or limited travel time.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Anger management
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Bipolar disorder
- Career difficulties
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Family conflicts
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English, Spanish