About Victoria
Victoria Naginsky is a licensed mental health counselor who helps people facing anxiety, depression, stress, addiction, grief, and relationship or family problems. She works with adults who are navigating life changes, mood concerns, trauma, and struggles with self-esteem or sleeping. Victoria aims to give straightforward support and practical tools so people can manage day-to-day challenges more easily.
Victoria uses a blend of talking and skill-building in sessions. She listens first to understand what feels most urgent, then offers strategies drawn from cognitive behavioral work and mindfulness to change unhelpful thinking and reduce strong emotions.
Background and approach
She also draws on emotionally-focused and client-centered ways of working to strengthen emotional awareness and improve close connections. Across nine years of practice she has helped people with addiction, anger, career stress, and complex family-of-origin issues. Her training includes credentials as a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and as an LPCC in Ohio and Indiana, which she lists as LMHC, LPCC.
That professional background informs how she organizes care and sets realistic goals with each person. Sessions typically focus on what a person wants to change now and over time. Victoria offers concrete homework, breathing and grounding techniques, and behavioral experiments that can be tried between meetings.
The aim is to create steady, manageable progress rather than quick fixes. People who value clear guidance, practical tools, and a respectful, warm approach may find her style a good match. She communicates plainly and keeps work focused on steps people can use in everyday life.
Approaches that translate well to online care
Client-centered therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience and helping them feel heard. In online sessions this means the therapist uses reflective listening and open questions to build trust and clarify what matters most to the person.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches concrete skills to change them. It works well over video or messaging because homework sheets, thought records, and behavioral experiments can be shared and practiced between meetings.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy, or DBT, offers skills for managing intense emotions, improving relationships, and reducing impulsive behaviors. Short phone check-ins, brief text-based coaching, and scheduled video skills sessions can all support practicing DBT tools in daily life.
Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals and try a few methods to see what fits. Adjustments are made over time so care matches changing needs and preferences.
Online therapy provides practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face work and screen sharing for worksheets. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging make it easier to check in between sessions or to get brief support without scheduling a full call. These options help people fit therapy into busy lives.
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What this counselor works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 9 years
- Licensed
- Florida, Georgia, Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Connecticut, Kentucky
- Languages
- English