About Vitus
Vitus Onusuru is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (LMFT) in California with seven years of experience. He helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, self-esteem struggles, and addiction. He also supports those facing relationship and intimacy concerns, career questions, sleep problems, ADHD, and life changes.
Vitus aims for straightforward conversations. He listens first, then works with each person to make a simple plan. Sessions emphasize practical steps and clearer thinking rather than jargon.
How Vitus works
He treats people with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. Vitus adapts his approach to each person's needs. That might mean focusing on coping skills for anxiety, exploring past hurts that affect relationships, or setting goals for career and motivation.
He pays attention to how stress and health issues like chronic pain affect mood and daily life. He also addresses concerns tied to adoption and foster care, attachment and abandonment, caregiving strain, body image, and sexual orientation. Those areas are woven into the conversation when they matter to a client's goals.
Vitus works in a collaborative style. He explains options and helps people pick what feels most useful. Progress is tracked in concrete ways so people can see what changes between sessions.
The focus is on building skills that fit everyday life.
What Vitus works with
The areas below are the ones Vitus selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMFT |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 7 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | California |
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Therapeutic approaches and online care
Vitus works with evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on real-world change. One common approach is skills-based work that teaches practical coping tools for anxiety, stress, and sleep problems; these sessions usually involve practicing new habits and checking progress over time. Another approach focuses on processing trauma and past hurt so that current relationships and self-worth improve; this often includes paced conversations about the impact of those events and learning ways to feel more grounded in daily life.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist and client review goals, try options, and adjust methods based on what helps most. The aim is to find an approach that fits a person's needs, preferences, and pace rather than forcing a single method.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to meet. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, live chat suits quick check-ins, and text-based messaging supports ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving, or travel while keeping focus on progress and practical tools.
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