About Victor
Dr. Victor Franco helps people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, depression, addiction, trauma, grief, relationship and intimacy concerns, and identity questions. He also supports people facing parenting strain, career challenges, body image and eating concerns, and issues related to attachment and self-esteem.
Dr. Franco is bilingual in English and Spanish and practices in New York as an LMHC. He brings 23 years of experience to his sessions.
He uses practical methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns and make different choices.
How Victor works
Sessions focus on clear goals, everyday language, and skills that can be applied between meetings. Dr. Franco draws from acceptance and commitment therapy to help clients clarify values and take meaningful action.
He also uses cognitive behavioral ideas to identify and change unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. Attachment-based and client-centered approaches guide how he builds safety and responds to each person. People often come for help with trauma and abuse, addictions, LGBT-related stress, bipolar symptoms, chronic worry, or grief.
He also addresses less talked-about areas like kink and alternative sex culture, abandonment, and caregiver stress. Work can include coping strategies, communication practice, and rebuilding a sense of agency. He has experience with trauma work in larger New York organizations and remains active with professional groups.
Dr. Franco speaks English and Spanish and works with international clients when scheduling allows. To begin, prospective clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule based on therapist availability.
Victor lists 12 ways of working on the entry:
What Victor works with
The areas below are the ones Victor selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English, Spanish |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approaches for change in an online setting
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people name what matters to them and take small, values-based steps even when feelings are hard. It often helps with worry, depression, and problems with motivation. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing them with real-world experiments to change behavior and mood. It is useful for anxiety, depression, and patterns that keep problems going. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people try new ways of relating when old habits cause pain.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Together they decide which methods to try, and plans are adjusted over time based on how things are going.
Online sessions can use video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different needs. Video sessions let people use visual cues and longer conversation, phone can be lower bandwidth or easier when multitasking, live chat suits shorter check-ins, and messaging supports ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or travel while maintaining a consistent therapeutic process with licensed professionals.
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