Victoria Hoyt
Trusted family and parenting therapist
- Credentials
- LCMFT, LMFT
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed in
- Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Victoria
Victoria Hoyt is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of experience. She practices in Kansas and brings long-term experience helping people with relationship and family challenges. She often guides parents and partners through difficult transitions and emotional strain.
Her approach is practical and focused on what clients need now. She listens closely and helps people talk through communication problems, parenting struggles, grief, addiction concerns, and stress. Sessions aim to identify small, workable steps rather than overwhelming plans.
Background and approach
Victoria draws from several evidence-informed methods depending on the situation. She uses techniques from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to address thoughts and behavior. Attachment-based ideas inform work on closeness and trust within families.
She has experience with a wide range of concerns including trauma and abuse, intimacy-related issues, anxiety and depression, blended family issues, adoption and foster care questions, and caregiving stress. She also supports people working through divorce, codependency, and substance-related problems. Victoria aims to create a respectful, down-to-earth space where people can make steady progress.
Her style is direct but compassionate, and she helps clients set clear goals and practice skills between sessions.
Therapeutic approaches for online family and parenting work
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice thoughts without getting stuck in them and focus on actions that match their values. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and when parents want to act differently despite difficult feelings.Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how family members connect and respond to each other. It focuses on building safety and trust in relationships, which is helpful for couples, parents, and children dealing with closeness or separation issues.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods to fit the situation in a collaborative way.
Online sessions are offered by licensed professionals through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy family schedules, allow follow-up between meetings, and let people continue work from home or while traveling. The variety of formats supports different needs, whether someone benefits from longer video conversations or shorter text check-ins.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Gottman Method
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Experience
- 27 years
- Licensed
- Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona
- Languages
- English
Next step
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