About Victoria
Victoria Cornell Riordan welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or unsure how to move forward. She prioritizes straightforward, nonjudgmental care so clients can name their goals and try practical steps toward them. She keeps the first meetings simple.
She listens to your story and helps you decide what matters most. Together you set clear, achievable goals and pick a few skills to practice between sessions. Victoria trained at Xavier University, earning a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling.
Background and approach
She holds LPCC and LPC credentials and has about six years of counseling experience in community and clinical settings. Her background includes work with trauma, depression, anxiety, ADHD, grief, and relationship or family stress. She has also supported people facing career challenges, eating and sleep difficulties, and life changes tied to aging, adoption, or fertility concerns.
In sessions she uses practical methods such as cognitive behavior approaches, mindfulness, acceptance strategies, dialectical behavior ideas, and EMDR when appropriate. She combines these tools to help clients build new habits, manage strong emotions, and cope with past hurts. Her style is direct but warm.
She aims to make therapy useful on busy days and during major life transitions. The focus is on small, steady changes you can notice from week to week.
Approaches to work with online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people clarify their values and take small steps toward a life that matters to them. It focuses on noticing thoughts and choosing actions that match personal priorities. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy looks at how thoughts, feelings, and behaviors connect and teaches practical skills to change patterns that cause distress. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy offers specific skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and tolerating stress without making things worse.Finding the right approach is part of therapy. Victoria will talk with each person about goals and preferences, then try options together. That teamwork helps decide whether acceptance strategies, CBT skills, DBT tools, or another method fits best for the situation.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video lets you use visual cues and longer conversations. Phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a check-in suits a shorter break. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, asking quick questions, and when typing feels more comfortable than talking. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives and keep consistent contact between appointments.
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What this counselor works with
Also listed
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Ohio, District of Columbia
- Languages
- English