About Victor
Dr. Victor Franco helps people who are living with stress, anxiety, addiction, trauma, depression, and relationship concerns. He works with issues like grief, intimacy struggles, eating and body image concerns, parenting stress, and sexual diversity matters.
He practices in New York and speaks both English and Spanish. He uses straightforward talk and practical strategies in sessions. He draws on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to address unhelpful patterns.
Background and approach
He also uses Attachment-Based and Client-Centered ways of working to focus on connection and the therapeutic relationship. Dr. Franco has worked in the field for more than two decades.
His credential is LMHC, which indicates he is a licensed mental health counselor in New York. He brings experience supporting people who have survived trauma and those navigating LGBT-related stressors. In sessions he helps people identify strengths and make small changes that add up over time.
He combines short-term coping skills with longer conversations about values and meaning. The pace and focus are shaped by each person's goals and preferences. People can expect a collaborative style that balances practical exercises with empathetic listening.
Dr. Franco accepts international clients and offers sessions in Spanish and English. He aims to make therapy understandable and manageable for someone juggling work, family, or other responsibilities.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on helping people notice what matters most to them and take small committed actions toward those values. It can help with anxiety, avoidance, and low motivation by building skills to act despite uncomfortable thoughts or feelings. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) helps identify unhelpful thinking and behavior patterns and replaces them with more effective habits. CBT is often used for anxiety, depression, and stress-related problems, where concrete exercises and practice can make a clear difference.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with the client to choose strategies that match their goals and preferences. Sessions can shift over time from skills-based work to deeper attachment or meaning-focused conversations, depending on what the person needs.
Online sessions are offered as video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different routines. Video makes it easier to read body language and have longer conversations. Phone can be useful when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is preferred. Live chat and text messaging allow for brief ongoing support between longer sessions and can fit into a busy day. These options make therapy more flexible for people balancing work, caregiving, or travel.
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What this therapist works with
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 23 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Spanish
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