About Victoria
Victoria Mahboub is a licensed clinical social worker in Wisconsin with 20 years of experience helping people manage stress, anxiety, and depression. She supports individuals facing relationship troubles, trauma and abuse, and concerns about self-esteem and motivation. Victoria emphasizes a straightforward, compassionate approach that helps people take the first step toward feeling better.
She focuses on creating an open, nonjudgmental space where clients can speak honestly about their thoughts and feelings.
Background and approach
Sessions are practical and paced to each person’s needs. Victoria listens carefully, helps clarify what matters most, and works with clients to set small, doable goals. Her background includes long experience across a range of concerns such as panic attacks, post-traumatic stress, attachment and abandonment issues, and caregiver stress.
She also supports people coping with chronic pain, illness, or disability and with life transitions like divorce or separation. Victoria addresses communication problems, control issues, guilt and shame, and feelings of isolation or purposelessness. She helps clients explore forgiveness, manage impulsivity, and rebuild confidence after difficult experiences.
Her style is practical and steady, aimed at helping people notice change over time. Clients can expect clear conversation about what to try next and why. Victoria encourages realistic steps and checks in on progress.
She recognizes that starting therapy takes courage and offers respectful guidance throughout the process.
Therapeutic Approaches and How Online Therapy Helps
Victoria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on practical change and coping skills. One common approach involves teaching specific strategies to manage anxiety and panic, such as breathing and grounding exercises plus step-by-step plans to reduce avoidance. This helps people regain confidence in everyday situations.Another approach centers on addressing trauma and its effects through paced processing and skills to manage hard memories and strong emotions. That work aims to reduce symptoms like flashbacks, hypervigilance, or intense shame by helping clients build tolerable ways to talk about and make sense of their experiences.
Finding the right approach is a team effort. The therapist will talk with each person about goals, symptoms, and preferences, then try methods that fit those needs. If something isn’t working, adjustments are made together until a better fit is found.
Online therapy offers flexibility and several ways to connect. Video sessions allow face-to-face conversation when visual cues help. Phone sessions can be lower bandwidth and easier to fit into a lunch break. Live chat and text-based messaging work well for brief check-ins, journaling between sessions, or when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent with daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Mood disorders
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 20 years
- Licensed
- Wisconsin
- Languages
- English
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