About Victoria
Victoria Rutledge is an LPC with 23 years of experience who focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, and trauma. She supports people working through relationship and intimacy concerns, struggles with self-esteem, addiction, and grief. Her work also covers practical life challenges like career stress, parenting pressures, sleep and eating problems, and coping with major life changes.
Victoria uses clear, step-by-step methods to help people make changes that stick.
How Victoria works
She draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test different behaviors. Sessions are conversational and goal-focused, with tools people can try between meetings. She brings a long history of clinical work in Oklahoma and beyond, helping people at different life stages manage ongoing stress, chronic illness, caregiver strain, and bereavement.
Her experience includes supporting those dealing with attachment, blended family dynamics, and issues related to aging and caregiving. Victoria often addresses concerns such as domestic violence, divorce and separation, family of origin struggles, and feelings of guilt or shame. She also helps people navigate identity and LGBT-related concerns, isolation, and questions about life purpose.
People who work with her can expect practical strategies, a focus on building coping skills, and attention to everyday problems like anger, attention challenges, and compassion fatigue. She aims to help each person find manageable steps toward better day-to-day functioning.
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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
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LPC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 23 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | Oklahoma |
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Online support options
How CBT and online sessions work together
Victoria uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people identify patterns of thought that feed anxiety, depression, and low self-esteem, then test small behavior changes to see what helps. CBT is practical and skill-focused, which can make it easy to use between sessions for issues like stress, insomnia, eating concerns, and anger.The right mix of approaches is something she finds together with each person. She will discuss goals, preferences, and day-to-day challenges and then choose strategies that fit those needs. That collaborative process helps tailor CBT exercises and homework to real life situations.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can pick what works for them. Video is helpful for deeper conversations and visual cues, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging is useful for ongoing reflections and quick progress notes. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or other busy schedules.
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