Licensed Mental Health Counselor
Victoria Baca Villagomez, LMHC
Education
Master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Nova Southeastern University
Expertise
Addiction, anxiety, stress, depression, trauma/PTSD, grief/loss, borderline personality disorder, domestic abuse, coping skills, narcissism, and ADHD
Victoria Baca is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with 8 years of experience working in a wide variety of settings with a focus on individual counseling. Her specialties include anxiety, depression, substance abuse, trauma, domestic violence, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, and immigration/acculturation problems.
Victoria's approach to therapy comes from the belief that every individual is their own expert and possesses the inner wisdom to guide them to find the right path. Victoria’s role as a counselor is to help uncover her clients' inner wisdom and resiliency. Her theoretical orientation is eclectic, combining cognitive-behavioral and dialectical behavioral approaches with mindfulness and motivational interviewing.
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