About Victoria
Victoria Rockholt is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) in Washington with 18 years of professional experience. She focuses on helping people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or the effects of past trauma. She centers work on clients' strengths and personal knowledge of their lives.
Victoria aims to support people as they take the first steps toward change and greater well-being. Over many years she has helped people manage mood challenges and build steady coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions often focus on practical steps to reduce worry, improve daily routines, and manage intense emotions. She also addresses issues like self-esteem, feelings of emptiness, and the fallout from life transitions. Victoria helps individuals sort through communication problems and workplace strain.
She has experience assisting people after natural or human-caused disasters and with concerns such as guilt, shame, and isolation. Her approach is straightforward and focused on small, achievable changes that add up. In sessions she treats post-traumatic stress, obsessive and compulsive symptoms, seasonal affective patterns, and social anxiety.
She also supports people navigating midlife questions and women’s issues. Conversations are collaborative, with the client guiding what matters most. People who connect well with Victoria tend to want clear steps and a steady presence.
She emphasizes real-world coping tools and gradual progress. If someone wants focused help for stress, mood, or trauma-related concerns, she offers steady support and practical strategies.
Approaches that guide online sessions
Victoria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear, practical tools. One common approach emphasizes skill-building for stress and anxiety: clients learn breathing, grounding, and planning strategies to reduce worry and improve daily routine. This method helps when symptoms interfere with work, sleep, or family life.Another focus is on trauma-informed care that helps people process difficult memories and reduce their impact on current behavior. Work in this area typically includes pacing, safety planning for strong reactions, and skills to manage intense feelings so life can feel more manageable.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Victoria partners with clients to identify goals and try methods that fit their needs and preferences. She adjusts techniques over time based on progress and what feels most useful to each person.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video sessions allow visual connection and fuller conversation. Phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quicker check-in is preferred. Live chat or messaging can be used for brief updates, ongoing check-ins, or when someone wants written reflection instead of a call. These formats make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to maintain continuity when travel or time constraints arise.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Post-traumatic stress
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 18 years
- Licensed
- Washington
- Languages
- English