Dr. Victoria Lawlor is a post-doctoral fellow at Anxiety Specialists of Atlanta. Victoria works with children, adolescents, and adults who experience obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), anxiety disorders (including social anxiety disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, and specific phobias), depression, relationship difficulties, as well as those who want support coping with stressors and difficult life circumstances. Victoria’s approach to therapy is collaborative, affirming, and evidence-based. She uses techniques grounded in Exposure with Response Prevention (ERP), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and self-compassion-based treatments.
Victoria began her doctoral training at Emory University in 2018, earning her M.A in Clinical psychology in 2022 and Ph.D. in 2024. She completed her predoctoral internship at the Emory University School of Medicine’s Child and Adolescent Mood Program. Throughout her time at Emory, she has worked with individuals of all ages and backgrounds and received extensive training in the treatment of OCD and anxiety in outpatient, intensive outpatient, and partial hospital settings. She understands how world-shrinking anxiety and OCD can be and has seen how evidence-based treatments can provide freedom and peace. As a post-doctoral fellow, Victoria works under the supervision of Dr. John Mohammadioun.
Originally from Connecticut, Victoria now calls Atlanta home. In her spare time, Victoria loves lounging with her orange cat Ernie (who often joins her as a co-therapist when she works from home), going to local shows, taking long walks around Atlanta in a thus-far futile attempt to will it into being a walkable city, reading memoirs, watching documentaries, and experimenting with a rotating list of textile art activities (currently rug tufting).
