Victoria Hoyt, LCMFT, LMFT

Victoria Hoyt is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of clinical experience who supports individuals, couples, and families navigating addiction, trauma, relationship challenges, parenting, grief, anxiety, and life transitions. She holds the credentials LCMFT and LMFT - LCMFT indicating a Licensed Clinical Marriage and Family Therapist and LMFT indicating a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist - and combines a practical, strengths-oriented outlook with trauma-aware practices to help clients move toward their goals.

Her background includes work with a broad age range and varied settings, including residential juvenile programs, military families on an army base, mental health and addiction treatment facilities, and church-based counseling. She has developed particular expertise in blended family issues, adoption and foster care concerns, attachment and abandonment-related themes, and complex dynamics such as codependency, domestic violence, and substance use challenges.

Victoria integrates Emotional Focus Therapy, strength-based methods, trauma-informed care, and cognitive behavioral strategies, adapting her approach to fit each client�s needs. She values honesty, respect, and a warm, attentive presence, and she aims to create a healing space where people can identify strengths, learn new skills, and make meaningful change. Outside of practice she brings lived experience as a spouse of 42 years and as a parent and grandparent to eight children and 24 grandchildren. Victoria works full time at a mental health facility and maintains some morning and evening availability for remote and scheduled sessions.

Therapeutic approaches and remote care

Victoria frequently draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help people clarify their values and take committed steps toward a more meaningful life. ACT emphasizes flexible thinking and practical actions to reduce the impact of painful thoughts and feelings, and it can be helpful for anxiety, depression, and stress-related concerns.

She also uses Attachment-Based Therapy to explore how early relationship patterns affect current bonds and emotional safety. This approach helps couples and family members understand connection needs, repair ruptures, and build more secure interactions.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is another tool in her practice, focusing on identifying unhelpful thoughts and behaviors and developing concrete coping skills. CBT is often effective for addressing patterns related to anxiety, depression, and addictive behaviors.

Choosing the right approach is part of the therapeutic process. Victoria collaborates with each client to assess needs, goals, and preferences, adjusting techniques over time so the work feels relevant and manageable.

Online therapy with Victoria offers flexibility - sessions can take place by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging - making it easier to fit counseling into busy schedules, access care from home, and maintain continuity of support across life changes.