Victoria Levina
(She/Her/Hers)
Licensed Master Social Worker (LMSW)
Supporting young adults through anxiety, addiction, life transitions, and relationship challenges with warmth, humor, and evidence-based care.
Navigating your 20s can be complicated—relationships, career decisions, and personal growth all come with challenges. Whether you’re struggling with anxiety, depression, addiction, or past trauma, therapy is a place to make sense of it all. Together, we’ll explore patterns, develop coping strategies, and build on your strengths to create meaningful change. I specialize in substance use treatment and have worked in clinical research and residential settings, helping individuals find recovery and stability. I also work with clients facing relationship challenges, life transitions, and self-doubt. My approach is collaborative and practical, blending DBT, CBT, psychodynamic therapy, and motivational interviewing. I also incorporate parts work when helpful. With a warm, lighthearted style, I believe therapy should feel both productive and comfortable. You are the expert in your own life—I'm here to help you access the tools to move forward with confidence.
Practice hours (EDT)
Accepts new patients after hospitalization for
- Manic episodes
- Severe depression
- Self-harming behavior
- Suicidal intent or a plan
- Escalating reckless or impulsive behavior
- Suicide attempt
- Eating disorders
- Substance use
- Severe emotional stress or trauma
Reserves times throughout the week for new clients after discharge from the hospital.
Adjusts scheduling to accommodate new clients after their hospitalization.
Areas of focus
Areas of expertise
- Abuse
- Academic Concerns
- Adoption
- Aging
- Alcohol Use
- Anger Issues
- Anorexia Nervosa
- Anxiety
- Athletic Performance
- Athletic/Sports performance
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Avoidant Personality
- Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder
- Binge-Eating Disorder
- Bipolar Disorder
- Body Image
- Borderline Personality
- Bulimia Nervosa
- Bullying
- Burnout
- Career
- Childhood Abuse
- Chronic Illness/Pain
- College and School Placement
- Compulsive Exercise
- Conflict Resolution
- Dependent Personality
- Depression
- Disability
- Divorce
- Drug Use
- Eating Concerns
- Excoriation Disorder (skin picking)
- Family Caregiving Stress
- Financial Concerns
- Gambling Concerns
- Gaming/Internet Concerns
- Gender Identity
- Grief and Loss
- Histrionic Personality
- Hoarding
- Immigration/Acculturation
- Infidelity
- Insomnia
- Intimacy Concerns
- Life Transitions
- Loneliness/Isolation
- Men's Issues
- Narcissistic Personality
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
- Obsessive-Compulsive Personality
- Other specified feeding or eating disorder (OSFED)
- Panic
- Paranoid Personality
- Parenting Concerns
- Peer Difficulties
- Perfectionism
- Performance Anxiety
- Personal Growth
- Personality Disorders
- Phobia
- Physical Assault
- Physical Stress
- Postpartum Depression
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Racial Identity
- Racial/Cultural Oppression or Trauma
- Relationship Violence/Stalking/Harassment
- Relationship(s) with Friends/Roommates
- Relationship(s) with Parents/Children/Family
- Relationship(s) with Partner/Husband/Wife
- School Concerns
- Self-Esteem
- Self-Harm
- Sex Addiction/Pornography Concerns
- Sexual Assault
- Sexual Concerns
- Sexual Identity
- Sleep Concerns
- Social Anxiety
- Spiritual/Religious Concerns
- Substance Use
- Suicidal Ideation
- Trauma
- Trichotillomania (hair pulling)
- Women's Issues
- Work/Life Balance
Age groups
- Young adults (18-30)
- Adults (31-64)
- Seniors (65 or older)
Special groups
- Clients from the court/judicial system
- People with HIV or AIDS
Treatment specialties
Therapeutic modalities
- Behavior Modification
- Individual Therapy
Treatments
- Light Therapy
- Culturally-Sensitive Therapy
- Mindfulness Training
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Coaching
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Behavior Therapy
- Relational Psychotherapy
- Somatic Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal and Social Rhythm Therapy (IPSRT)
- Brief Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Family Systems Therapy
- Transference Focused Therapy (TFP)
- Positive Psychology
- Social Skills Training
- Eclectic Approaches
- Humanistic Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Relationship Enhancement Therapy
- Process-Oriented Psychology
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Internal Family Systems Therapy
- Motivational Enhancement Therapy (MET)
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy-Insomnia (CBT-I)
- Body Image Therapy
- Integrative Body Psychotherapy
- Self Psychology
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Feminist Therapy
- Anger Management
- Cognitive Restructuring
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Coaching
- Existential Psychotherapy
- Psychoanalysis
- Brief Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Therapy
- Erikson/Psychosocial Development
- Reality Therapy
Remote options
- Video
Payment options
$200 — $225per session
Insurance
In-network coverage provided for the following insurance companies
- Aetna – Massachusetts
- Aetna – New York
- Blue Cross Blue Shield – New York
- Capital District Physicians’ Health Plan (CDPHP) – New York
- Cigna – New York
- Optum – New York
- Oscar – New York
- UHC – New York
- UMR-EAP – New York
- Documentation provided for patient filling
- In-network insurance
- Out-of-pocket
Payment methods
- Credit Card
- Debit Card
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Online
Credentials
Licenses
LMSW
120303, New York
LCSW
LCSW2121149, Massachusetts
Education
Boston College
MSW (Master of Social Work), 2023
Boston University
MPsy (Master of Psychology), 2019
University of California, Santa Barbara
BA (Bachelor of Arts), 2017
Publications
A meta-analysis suggests that tACS improves cognition in healthy, aging, and psychiatric populations
2023, Science Translational Medicine, 10.1126/scitranslmed.abo2044
See publicationTreatment utilization and modality preference among veterans receiving outpatient substance use disorder treatment during a pandemic
2022, The American Journal on Addictions, https://doi.org/10.1111/ajad.13347
See publicationEffects of transcranial alternating current stimulation on visual cognition: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
2022, Journal of Vision, https://doi.org/10.1167/jov.20.11.541
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