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Victoria Hoyt

Victoria Hoyt, LCMFT, LMFT

Therapist · Kansas · 27+ years of experience

Experienced marriage and family therapist focused on midlife challenges

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  • 27 years experience
  • Kansas based
  • Values-based work

About Victoria

Victoria Hoyt is a licensed marriage and family therapist with 27 years of clinical experience. She brings decades of practical work to sessions and focuses on helping people navigate major life transitions, relationship problems, addiction, trauma, and parenting challenges.

She draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Attachment-Based strategies to match the work to each person’s situation. Sessions tend to emphasize clear goals, skill building, and honest conversation. Victoria aims to help clients identify values, set boundaries, and make changes that fit their life.

Her background includes long-term work in mental health and addiction settings and experience with blended families, trauma, and grief. That history shaped a straightforward style that balances practical tools with attention to emotions. Victoria often helps people manage stress, cope with loss, and rebuild connection after relationship ruptures.

Clients who do best with her approach usually want direct feedback and concrete steps they can use between sessions. She also offers space to talk through painful memories and to practice new ways of relating. Her stated priorities are respect, honesty, and helping people find meaningful direction.

Victoria lives and works in Kansas and practices with the perspective of someone who has raised a large family and maintained a long marriage. She encourages people who are ready to make changes to reach out and begin a focused process of growth.

Areas of expertise

Primary focus

AddictionsRelationship issuesFamily conflictsTrauma and abuseIntimacy-related issues

Also works with

Stress, AnxietyGriefParenting issuesAnger managementSelf esteemCareer difficultiesDepressionCoping with life changesCoaching

Additional focus areas

AbandonmentAdoption and foster careAttachment issuesBlended family issuesCancerCaregiver issues and stressCodependencyCommitment issuesCommunication problemsControl issuesCoping with natural or human-caused disasterDependent personalityDivorce and separationDomestic violenceDrug and alcohol addictionEmptinessFamily of origin issuesFamily problemsForgivenessGuilt and shameHoardingImpulsivityInfidelityIsolation / lonelinessJealousyLife purposeMen's issuesMidlife crisisVeteran and Armed Forces IssuesMoney and financial issuesMood disordersObsessions, compulsions, and OCDPanic disorder and panic attacksPersonality disordersPhobiasPost-traumatic stressProcess addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)Self-loveSexual assault and abuseSocial anxiety and phobiaWomen's issuesWorkplace issuesYoung adult issues

Therapeutic approaches

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Attachment-Based TherapyClient-Centered TherapyCognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)Gottman MethodMindfulness TherapyMotivational InterviewingNarrative TherapySolution-Focused TherapyTrauma-Focused Therapy

Experience

27+ years

Credentials

Kansas, Oklahoma, Arizona

Languages

English

How her approaches translate to online work

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while managing difficult thoughts and feelings. It can help with life transitions, midlife reorientation, anxiety, and coping with change. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings, and actions and teaches practical strategies to shift unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and can help people improve intimacy, trust, and communication.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will discuss options and help decide which methods fit a person’s goals, preferences, and life circumstances. Clients and therapist make those choices collaboratively and adjust the plan as progress is made.

Confirm the exact online session formats before booking since the profile does not list them. Online work can make it easier to fit therapy into a busy week, reduce travel time, and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand them. It can also let people practice relationship or communication skills between sessions and build routines that transfer into everyday life.

Frequently asked questions

What concerns does she help with?

She works with addiction, relationship and family difficulties, trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, grief, parenting, anger, self esteem, career and depression among other concerns.

How would you describe her therapeutic style?

Her style is direct and practical, with goal-focused conversations and skill building alongside emotional processing.

What is her clinical background?

She brings 27 years of experience in mental health and addiction settings and has worked with a wide age range and varied family situations.

What credentials and region apply?

She holds LCMFT and LMFT credentials and practices in Kansas.

Which languages are supported and can international clients join?

Sessions are offered in English and international clients are not currently accepted.

What session formats are available?

Please confirm current session options before booking, as formats are not specified in the profile.

How are fees handled?

Cost varies with location and therapist availability; sessions use a subscription that can be canceled at any time.

What are the first steps to begin?

Select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule according to therapist availability.

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