About Victoria
Victoria Burton is a licensed social worker who helps people facing addiction, mood shifts, and painful life changes. She focuses on practical steps that make daily life feel more manageable and less overwhelming. Victoria speaks English and offers online sessions to people in Michigan and beyond.
She uses a mix of methods to match what each person needs. Sessions often include hands-on strategies, reflection on patterns that cause pain, and short goals to build momentum.
How Victoria works
Victoria emphasizes compassion and steady progress over quick fixes. Clients might work on recovery from drug or alcohol addiction, healing after trauma, or improving self-esteem and body image. She also supports people dealing with eating concerns, grief, bipolar and depressive symptoms, and ADHD-related struggles.
Communication problems, relationship strain, and parenting stress are other areas she addresses with focused tools. Victoria has seven years of clinical experience and holds an LMSW, which means Licensed Master Social Worker. Her background includes helping people manage co-occurring issues like chronic illness, chronic pain, and intellectual disability alongside emotional concerns.
She aims to meet each person where they are and move at a comfortable pace. Work with Victoria typically includes concrete exercises and short homework between sessions when that fits someone’s goals. She uses motivational interviewing when people want change and attachment-based ideas when relationships are causing pain.
The overall goal is clearer choices and steadier coping in everyday life.
Victoria lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Victoria works with
The areas below are the ones Victoria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
Also listed
- Abandonment
- ADHD
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | LMSW |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Michigan |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Therapeutic approaches you can use online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on helping people notice difficult thoughts and feelings without getting ruled by them. It emphasizes values and small actions that move someone toward a life they care about, which can help with depression, anxiety, and living with chronic conditions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at the links between thoughts, feelings, and behavior. It uses practical exercises and experiments to test unhelpful thinking and build new coping skills for problems like mood disorders, eating concerns, and substance use.
Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional reactions. It can be useful when trust, abandonment, or communication problems are getting in the way of feeling stable in relationships.
Victoria treats finding the right approach as a team effort. She will work with each person to decide which methods fit their goals and preferences, and she adapts plans as progress happens. That collaborative process helps build confidence and clear steps forward.
Online sessions are offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to suit different needs. Video is helpful for in-depth conversations and visual cues. Phone can be a lighter option when bandwidth is limited or camera use is unwanted. Live chat and text messaging make it possible to check in between sessions and fit therapy into a busy schedule. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while balancing work, family, and other commitments.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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