Victoria Wendell, LPC
Therapist
Victoria Wendell, LPCHolistic Trauma Therapist & Eating Disorder Specialist
"Clients often come to me feeling stuck in patterns that are impacting their relationships, self-worth, and everyday life. Together we seek to understand these patterns not just as problems to eliminate, but as adaptations that developed to be able to cope at an earlier time in life, that no longer serve them."
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Issues Victoria helps with
Millenials
Mid-life and Older Adults
College Students
Who she works with
Victoria specializes in complex and acute trauma, as well as, disordered eating patterns, anxiety/depression, perfectionism, OCD, and body image stigma. She works with Young and Mid-life adults navigating longstanding patterns that leave them feeling stuck, disconnected, or at odds with themselves. She's especially drawn to helping clients heal their relationship with food, body image, and themselves, and she understands that trauma rarely shows up in isolation — it often intersects with disordered eating, attachment wounds, chronic shame, and difficulties with identity and self-worth.
How she works
Victoria approaches therapy from the belief that symptoms are the best solution a person's mind and body could find for overwhelming experiences, difficult environments, or unmet needs. Hence, her work focuses on more than symptom reduction: She helps clients understand how these patterns originated, what purpose they've served, how they might now be getting in the way of the life the client wants, and help them develop ways of coping and being that overcome these old ways, one step at a time as a pace that feels supportive.
Her therapeutic space is both validating and gently challenging, in order to help clients build insight, self-compassion, and personal safety so they can move beyond survival and toward a more authentic, connected life. Together, you can make sense of your experiences, understand what has kept you stuck, and create space for building a life in line with your values/goals.
She has extensive expereince in trauma work and draws on a range of evidence-based and experiential approaches, such as, Coherence Therapy, Cognitive Processing Therapy, CBT, DBT, Radically Open DBT, Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), and Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT), choosing what fits rather than applying one method to everyone.
Symptoms are often not the problem — they're the mind and body's best solution to something overwhelming that happened in the past. Healing from that does not require having all the answers, just a commitment to discovering them.
Training & Credentials
Master's degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, Marymount University
Bachelor's degree in Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Licensed Professional Counselor — Virginia
Trained in Cognitive Processing Therapy for Trauma
Trained in Exposure and Response Prevention
Trained in DBT & Radically Open DBT
Trained in Coherence Therapy
What a first session is like
For individual therapy, the first few sessions are a chance to begin developing a fuller, more holistic understanding of what you are facing now. Victoria will learn about your history, when the current concerns began or became more difficult, what has shaped them, and what you have already tried. Together, you will start to make sense of the larger context around your experiences and identify where the work can begin.
If that sounds like what you are looking for, book a 30-minute consultation call with Victoria.
Questions people ask Victoria
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Yes. Victoria works with complex trauma as much as single-incident trauma — long-term patterns, chronic environments, and cumulative experiences that never got named as "trauma" at the time. If you’re feeling weighed down but your past experiences or find yourself lashing out, feeling overwhelemd, always on the edge, unable to feel safe or trust others, it’s worth exploring in therapy.
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Yes. Disordered eating exists on a spectrum, and you don't need a formal diagnosis to be struggling with food, body image, or the thoughts that come with them. If it's taking up space in your life, it's worth talking about.
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No. Victoria isn't a dietitian, and that's not the work she does. Her focus is the underlying relationship with food and body, and the patterns (perfectionism, shame, anxiety) that often sit underneath disordered eating.
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Olesya is a self-pay therapist. We provide a superbill for you to submit to your insurance plan for possible out-of-network reimbursement and have also partnered with Reimbusify to make this process seamless. You can check your out-of-network benefits here. This can tell you whether couples or individual therapy is covered and what reimbursement may be available.
We understand therapy can be a investment in yourself and your relationship and do not take that lightly, which is why our therapists are specialized and will make sure they have the tools to help you meet your goals.
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