About Victoria
Victoria Lichtman helps people facing stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, and major life transitions. She approaches each person with calm attention and practical steps to make everyday life feel more manageable. Victoria is a licensed clinical social worker - LCSW - practicing in Wisconsin and offering sessions in English.
She focuses on issues like low self-esteem, social anxiety, isolation, and finding purpose. Victoria draws on techniques that challenge unhelpful thoughts and build coping skills.
Background and approach
Sessions emphasize small changes clients can use right away to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Before clinical work, she spent time in the humanitarian and human rights field with nonprofits in the US and overseas. That background shapes her understanding of cultural identity, immigration stress, and the hardships people bring from diverse life circumstances.
Victoria has experience supporting adults dealing with caregiver strain, grief, substance-related problems, chronic stress, and justice-related challenges. She pays attention to how a person’s family history and cultural values affect current relationships and choices. Her style is collaborative and human-centered.
She invites clients to tell their stories, test new ways of thinking, and practice emotion regulation skills. The goal is steady progress toward clearer goals and better day-to-day coping.
Evidence-based approaches and flexible online care
Victoria often uses cognitive behavioral techniques to help people identify and change unhelpful thoughts and habits. This work focuses on breaking down worries into manageable steps, testing new beliefs, and building skills that reduce anxiety and avoidance.She also emphasizes emotion regulation strategies that teach ways to notice feelings, calm intense reactions, and recover more quickly from setbacks. These tools are useful for stress, relationship tension, grief, and transitions where strong emotions get in the way of decision making.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Victoria will work with each person to see what methods fit their goals and daily life, and she adjusts strategies as progress is made.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and nonverbal cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins, short reflections between sessions, or people who express themselves better in writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, caregiving, or busy schedules while focusing on practical coping and steady progress.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Attachment issues
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Divorce and separation
- Family of origin issues
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Multicultural concerns
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English