About Vitus
Vitus Onusuru is a licensed therapist practicing in California who helps people manage stress, anxiety, depression, trauma and abuse, and low self-esteem. He also supports people facing life changes, addiction concerns, relationship and intimacy-related issues, sleep problems, career questions, and ADHD.
Background and approach
Vitus approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and compassion. He adapts conversations and care to each person’s needs instead of using one fixed plan.
Sessions focus on practical steps that can be used between meetings. Vitus helps clients build confidence, find motivation, and cope with difficult feelings.
Over seven years he has worked with many concerns related to attachment, abandonment, adoption and foster care, caregiving stress, chronic illness and pain, body image, and commitment issues. He also has experience addressing topics connected to autism spectrum differences, personality-related difficulties, blended family concerns, and cancer-related stress.
Vitus describes therapy as a collaborative process. He listens first, then helps set goals and tries different approaches to see what fits.
Progress is tracked in simple ways so clients know what’s changing. Sessions are offered through a range of online formats to fit busy schedules.
He supports people who prefer video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging. Getting started involves a short matching questionnaire and scheduling a first appointment.
Practical approaches and online care
Vitus commonly uses evidence-based therapeutic techniques that focus on concrete skills and behavior change. One approach centers on learning coping skills for anxiety and stress, teaching pacing, breathing, and step-by-step exposure to reduce avoidance and build confidence. Another approach emphasizes improving self-esteem and motivation through small, achievable goals and reviewing what works so confidence grows over time. Finding the right therapeutic approach is part of the work together. Vitus will listen to goals and preferences, suggest options, and adjust methods as progress is seen. The process is collaborative and aims to match techniques to what feels most useful for each person. Online sessions make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives. Video calls let people use face-to-face time for deeper conversations, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or a quieter audio check-in is preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging can support brief updates or ongoing coaching between longer meetings. These options increase flexibility and help people keep momentum toward their goals.Frequently asked questions
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- 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-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Trichotillomania
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Visually impaired
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
- Experience
- 7 years
- Licensed
- California
- Languages
- English