Victoria Elkins
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, LCADC, DBTC, MBE
Finances
Fees
- Individual Sessions $150
- Couple Sessions $150
- Sliding scale: apply if you may be eligible
Payment Methods
Cash, Check, Paypal, Venmo, ZelleInsurance
- Blue Cross
- Blue Shield
- BlueCross and BlueShield
- Florida Blue
- Medicare
- New Directions | Lucet
- Optum
- UnitedHealthcare UHC | UBH
- Out of Network
Qualifications
- Verified by Psychology Today Licensed by State of Florida / SW11768 Victoria Elkins
- Attended New York University, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Graduated 2007
- License: NJ Licensed Clinical Alcohol & Drug Counselor 37LC00170500 / 2010
- Certificate from DBT National Certification and Accreditation Assoc Certified DBT Therapist / 2015
Education and Years In Practice
Additional Credentials
Specialties and Expertise
Top Specialties
- Mood Disorders
- Women's Issues
- Geriatric and Seniors
Expertise
- Addiction
- Alcohol Use
- Anxiety
- Behavioral Issues
- Bipolar Disorder
- Bisexual
- Borderline Personality (BPD)
- Cancer
- Chronic Pain
- Coping Skills
- Depression
- Drug Abuse
- Dual Diagnosis
- Eating Disorders
- Family Conflict
- Gambling
- Grief
- Impulse Control Disorders
- Lesbian
- LGBTQ+
- Life Coaching
- Marital and Premarital
- Obesity
- Obsessive-Compulsive (OCD)
- Peer Relationships
- Personality Disorders
- Relationship Issues
- School Issues
- Self Esteem
- Substance Use
- Veterans
- Weight Loss
Client Focus
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Treatment Approach
Types of Therapy
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
- Eclectic
- Family / Marital
- Meditation
- Mindfulness-Based (MBCT)
- Positive Psychology
- Psychodynamic
- Solution Focused Brief (SFBT)
- Somatic
- Yoga
Groups
Yoga For Stress Reduction
With regular practice, yoga is effective in managing anxiety, stress, depression, and OCD symptoms. Our yoga sessions focus on breathing techniques and restorative poses to increase flexibility, decrease tension, and counteract the body's natural fight-or-flight response. Yoga increases body awareness and works to disrupt negative thought patterns.
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Location
Naples, FL 34105
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: team-cbt
This group utilizes the skills found in When Panic Attacks by David Burns. By attending this group you will learn more than 40 simple, effective techniques that help you look at how to identify the lie and distortions in your thought patterns. By changing the thought you are able to regain control over your mind and emotions. This form of therapy has been proven to be 8 times more effective than other therapies while reducing suffering an average of 30% in an hour and producing meaningful change within 5 sessions.
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Naples, FL 34105
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
DBT combines four comprehensive models 1) Mindfulness--the capacity to pay attention, nonjudgementally, to the present moment 2) Distress Tolerance—the ability to accept, in a non-evaluative and nonjudgemental fashion, both oneself and the current situation 3) Interpersonal Effectiveness—the effective strategies for asking for what one needs, saying no, and coping with interpersonal conflict 4) E motional Regulation—the effective strategies for learning to regulate ones emotions: Identifying and labeling emotions Identifying obstacles to changing emotions Reducing vulnerability to emotion mind Increasing positive emotional events Increasing mindfulness to current emotions Taking opposite action Applying distress tolerance techniques
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