About Victoria
Victoria Okai is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in Virginia with 14 years of experience in mental health. She focuses on practical support for stress, anxiety, depression, relationship strains, self-esteem, parenting concerns, and intimacy-related issues. Victoria uses clear, straightforward conversation to help people manage tough moments.
She draws on evidence-informed approaches and adapts sessions to each person's needs. Sessions aim to build coping skills, improve communication, and restore a sense of control over daily life.
How Victoria works
Her background includes work in hospitals, community service boards, residential settings, outpatient clinics, and crisis counseling roles. That mix gave her frequent practice with high-stress situations and people facing major life changes. It also shaped a strengths-based outlook that centers the person rather than the diagnosis.
Victoria blends Client-Centered techniques with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Motivational Interviewing, and Solution-Focused methods. She picks tools that match the presenting concern and the client's goals. Expect collaborative planning and concrete steps you can try between sessions.
She speaks English and works with people facing multicultural and immigration-related challenges, communication breakdowns, infidelity, loneliness, life-purpose questions, and self-harm thoughts. Victoria stresses respect, dignity, and practical problem solving while helping people move toward a more satisfying life.
Victoria lists 5 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.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Virginia |
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Online support options
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Victoria often uses Client-Centered Therapy, which centers your experience and priorities and focuses on empathetic listening and collaboration to help you feel heard and understood. This approach is helpful for people coping with low self-esteem, life changes, and relationship stress.She also applies Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to identify and change unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and skill based and can be useful for anxiety, depression, social phobia, and coping with difficult situations.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. Victoria will discuss options and tailor methods based on your goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t helped before. Sessions are collaborative and adjusted as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions are a good fit when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief updates, ongoing support between sessions, or when written reflection helps. These options make scheduling more flexible and can help fit therapy into a busy life.
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