Victoria Haltom

Victoria Haltom is a licensed master social worker who helps people navigate grief, stress, anxiety, depression, and major life changes. She brings a calm, nonjudgmental presence and focuses on practical steps people can use right away. Victoria aims to build a respectful working relationship and to honor each person’s time and goals.

She trained at the University of Southern California and has been practicing since 2012, with clinical work beginning in 2015. Victoria has experience in outpatient therapy and telecounseling, and earlier work included case management in senior independent living. That background informs her approach to caregiver stress, aging concerns, and chronic illness.

Her style blends several approaches to meet a client’s needs rather than relying on a single method. She uses attachment-based ideas to look at how relationships shape feeling and behavior. Cognitive behavioral techniques help people change unhelpful thinking and daily habits.

Victoria also draws on dialectical behavior strategies, mindfulness, and breathing exercises to manage strong emotions. She incorporates existential questions when people face meaning, purpose, or loss. Sessions include skills practice, gentle reflection, and goal setting.

People commonly come to her for relationship struggles, parenting strain, addiction concerns, body image and eating issues, or coping with cancer and chronic pain. She also supports work-related stress, compassion fatigue, and attention-related challenges.

Her practice emphasizes practical tools and compassionate listening. The aim is to help people make clear steps forward, reduce overwhelm, and improve day-to-day functioning.

How therapy approaches shape online work

Attachment-based work focuses on how past and current relationships affect feelings and behavior. It helps when people struggle with trust, closeness, abandonment fears, or repeating painful relationship patterns. Client-centered therapy puts the person’s experience first and relies on listening, reflection, and the client’s own pace to find direction. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, looks at the link between thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical steps to change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals, and what feels most helpful. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress unfolds.

Victoria’s background includes telecounseling, so online sessions are within her experience. Because session formats are not fully listed in the biography, confirm the current options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy day, reduce travel time, and allow for shorter check-ins when needed. It also lets people use mindfulness and breathing exercises in the moment between appointments. A collaborative conversation at the start will help match therapeutic methods to the client’s life and practical needs.