Hi, I’m Victoria. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #163239 with a private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I completed my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology at The Wright Institute in Berkeley, CA. My post-graduate supervision, training, and experience has been focused in psychodynamic therapy for adults, meaning:
I believe that early childhood relationships and experiences have weight and meaning for us as adults. These experiences have taught us how to be humans, and valuable insights can be found from exploring and understanding them.
I treat the relationship between myself and clients as a unique opportunity for clients to actually receive and give feedback about who they are in all relationships. This includes working through conflicts, misunderstandings, secret motivations, hopes, and fears in real time and in the safety of a therapeutic relationship.
Who I am, and why I chose this work
I identify as a mix of many things more than I identify as being any one thing in particular: multicultural and biracial, with an interdisciplinary education and many interests. My own experience living in the in-between informs how I view clients; your unique, complex identity is one of a kind and more than anyone can see on the surface.
I decided to pursue a career in psychotherapy to find something deeper, more meaningful, and more challenging; I wanted to use all the parts of myself. I found all that and more in my work as a therapist. I’m still informed by my first career in design which altered my relationship with art profoundly and is a large part of why I continue to utilize art in a more centered, experiential, and empowered way in my practice.
