Victoria Burton, LMSW
Compassionate, practical support for parenting and life changes
Book with Victoria- Years in practice
- 7
- Credentials
- LMSW
- Licensed in
- Michigan
- Languages
- English
- Focus
- Addictions
- Focus
- Trauma and abuse
- Focus
- Eating disorders
About Victoria
Victoria Burton is a licensed clinical social worker with seven years of experience helping people navigate parenting stress, grief, mood challenges, and addiction-related concerns. She focuses on practical steps families and individuals can use to manage day-to-day strain. Victoria works with people who want clear strategies and steady support through hard moments.
She keeps sessions straightforward and goal-oriented. Victoria blends cognitive approaches with acceptance-based ideas to help clients notice thoughts and choose values-driven actions.
Background and approach
She also uses attachment-focused work to improve how people relate to themselves and others, especially around trust and connection. Clients can expect collaborative planning and concrete tools to use between sessions. Victoria offers skills, short exercises, and reflective prompts tailored to each person’s situation.
She often introduces small experiments people can try at home and then talk through in the next meeting. Her background as a licensed master social worker (LMSW) in Michigan shapes a practical, person-centered style. Victoria draws on motivational interviewing when readiness for change matters, and she brings experience supporting people facing trauma, eating concerns, mood disorders, and substance use struggles.
Sessions can address related issues such as attachment wounds, communication problems, body image, chronic illness, and coping with life transitions. She accepts clients from outside the U.S. and conducts work in English. Tools and follow-up ideas are offered when appropriate to help progress between sessions.
What Victoria works with
Everything Victoria lists, in the therapist's own terms. Parenting is the reason this directory exists; the rest shows what else Victoria helps people with.
- Addictions
- Trauma and abuse
- Eating disorders
- Self esteem
- Compassion fatigue
- LGBT
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
- Grief
- Parenting issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Depression
- Coping with life changes
- ADHD
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Communication problems
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intellectual disability
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Approaches Victoria lists
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Motivational Interviewing
- Solution-Focused Therapy
Listing an approach is not evidence of training in it. This directory copies what each therapist names and does not check training records.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) encourages people to notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then choose actions that match their values; it can help with parenting stress, mood concerns, and addictive patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy focuses on how early patterns of relating show up now and aims to build safer, more reliable ways of connecting with others. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thinking, feeling, and behavior patterns and introduces practical strategies to change unhelpful habits and reduce distress.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what has or hasn’t worked before. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust plans as progress unfolds, using short exercises and real-life practice to test what helps.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful when seeing facial cues matters, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat offers a quick check-in, and text messaging supports brief updates or ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep momentum across weeks.
Questions people ask about Victoria
What concerns does she help with?
Victoria works with a wide range of issues including addictions, trauma and abuse, eating concerns, mood disorders, grief, and parenting-related stress.
What style of therapy does she use?
Her approach mixes client-centered care with techniques from cognitive behavioral therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to build skills and clarify values.
How much practice experience does she have?
She has seven years of clinical experience as a licensed master social worker (LMSW), working with people on emotional, behavioral, and relationship challenges.
Where is she based and licensed?
She holds an LMSW and is licensed to practice in Michigan.
Which languages and locations are supported?
Sessions are offered in English, and she accepts international clients.
What session formats are available?
Therapy is offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different needs.
How does payment and cost work?
Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription model that can be canceled at any time.
How do I begin therapy with her?
Start by selecting the Start Therapy button, completing a short matching questionnaire, and scheduling according to the therapist's availability.
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