About Victoria
Victoria Cornell Riordan makes space for people who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or burned out. She focuses on clear goals and practical steps, and she aims to treat each person with honesty, fairness, and acceptance. Victoria uses straightforward talk and skill-building to help clients manage stress, anxiety, depression, grief, and changes in life circumstances.
She earned a master’s degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Xavier University and holds LPC and LPCC credentials.
How Victoria works
Her counseling path began in high school working with youth in equine and small-animal assisted groups, and she later served in the military before moving into civilian clinical work. That mix of settings shaped a down-to-earth approach to care. Victoria draws on several therapy methods to match what a person needs.
She uses cognitive behavioral techniques to shift unhelpful thoughts and behaviors, mindfulness exercises to increase present-moment focus, and trauma-informed tools when past events are getting in the way. She also incorporates elements from eye movement desensitization and reprocessing when appropriate.
Her experience covers a wide range of concerns, including ADHD, bipolar symptoms, eating and sleeping issues, relationship and family stress, and caregiving strain. Victoria has worked with people across the lifespan in individual, family, and group settings, and she emphasizes practical skills clients can use between sessions. Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented.
Victoria helps people identify small, doable steps toward better coping, clearer communication, and more manageable daily routines. Her style is supportive while staying focused on what someone wants to change.
Victoria lists 8 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.
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
Training and background
| Registers | LPCC, LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Ohio |
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Online support options
How therapy methods translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, and then take action toward personal values. It can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions by focusing on meaningful steps. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and teaches practical tools to change unhelpful patterns; it is useful for anxiety, low mood, and sleep or eating concerns. Dialectical Behavior Therapy emphasizes emotion regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness skills for people who feel overwhelmed by intense emotions.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will work with each person to try techniques, track what helps, and adjust methods based on symptoms, goals, and preferences. Sometimes a mix of approaches is the best path forward, and that decision happens together in session.
Online therapy offers several practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues matter, phone sessions can be a good option when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging supports brief check-ins or ongoing skill practice between longer sessions. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow consistent contact for people managing care, work, or family responsibilities.
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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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