About Victoria
Victoria Laneri is a licensed mental health counselor in New York with 25 years of professional experience. She focuses on stress, anxiety, addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, and coping with major life changes. Victoria aims to make first steps toward change feel manageable and supportive for each person she sees.
She creates a space where clients can say difficult things without judgment. Sessions emphasize clear conversation about what feels hard now and practical steps to try between meetings.
Background and approach
Victoria listens for patterns tied to family of origin, attachment, and past losses, and helps people name those threads. Her work addresses complex situations such as codependency, drug and alcohol addiction, and co-occurring problems. She also helps with feelings tied to abandonment, adoption and foster care histories, aging concerns, and the strains that come from being a first responder.
Treatment focuses on real-life impacts like trouble communicating, isolation, guilt, or overwhelming control needs. Over time Victoria supports people in building coping strategies that fit daily life. She guides goal setting, skill practice, and honest review of what’s working.
The approach is collaborative and paced to each person’s readiness. Sessions are offered in English and Victoria is open to working with international clients. She practices as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor in New York and brings a long history of hands-on clinical work to each conversation.
How evidence-based approaches work online
Victoria uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on clear tools and practical changes. One approach emphasizes building coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching simple exercises to manage constant worry and physical tension. Another approach targets trauma and addiction by helping people process painful memories and reduce harmful patterns through step-by-step work and behavioral changes.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with each person about symptoms, history, and daily routines to decide what to try first. Together they set goals, review what helps, and adjust methods as needed so treatment matches the client’s pace and priorities.
Online therapy with Victoria is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to make scheduling easier. Video allows face-to-face conversation for in-depth work, phone can be lower bandwidth and good for focused check-ins, and chat or messaging supports shorter updates and ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it simpler to fit therapy into busy lives and to keep progress moving forward.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- First responder issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Experience
- 25 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English