You know something needs to change.
Maybe you can't quite name it yet— just a sense that the way you've been living, relating, or showing up isn't working anymore.
Or maybe you've been doing the work for a while and still find yourself circling back to the same places, wondering why.
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That awareness — wherever you are in your journey — is the most important first step.
This is a space to get curious about the patterns that are shaping your life — the ways your past shows up in your present, often without you even realizing it. Why you respond the way you do. What's underneath the cycles you keep finding yourself in. And how to begin to shift them, not just understand them.
The body is always part of that exploration. But so is your story, your history, and the parts of you that formed long before you had words for any of it.
If something still feels out of reach, that might be a sign that the work needs to go deeper.
What I Do — And How
Maybe it shows up in your relationships, your body, or the quiet moments when you're finally still. That feeling, however you've come to it — is worth paying attention to. And often it’s the body that's been trying to tell you something long before the mind caught up.
I'm Victoria, a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor and Somatic Practitioner. I believe that most of us are working incredibly hard to heal — and that the missing piece is rarely more insight or understanding. It's learning to work with the body and the deeper parts of ourselves that insight alone can't reach.
My belief is simple: the body knows things the mind hasn't caught up to yet. And the parts of you that keep you stuck are not problems to fix — they're messengers that need listening to.
That's where we begin.
Somatic work means we pay attention to what's happening in your body — the contraction, the held breath, the way a memory lives in your chest before it ever reaches your thoughts. Parts work means we get curious about the different voices inside of you: the one that keeps you small, the one that's exhausted from holding everything together, the one that knows something needs to change.
Together, these approaches help you understand not just what you do, but why — and more importantly, how to shift it in a way that actually lasts.
Who I work with
My clients are often deep feeling, emotionally intelligent, self-aware people who are committed to growth and who are tired of spinning in the same cycles despite their best efforts.
They're navigating things like:
Anxiety, chronic stress, or nervous system dysregulation
Shame, self-criticism, and perfectionism
Relationship patterns — people pleasing, co-dependency, conflict
Grief, loss, and life transitions
Trauma — past or recent
Disconnection from self, body, or sense of purpose
Substance misuse and the patterns underneath it
If you've ever thought: “I know better, so why can't I just do better?!” — you're in the right place.
A little about me
I've been in private practice for five years, and this work is not separate from my own life — it's woven through it. I came to somatic and parts work not just as a clinician but as someone who has had to learn, slowly and with support, how to actually inhabit my own experience rather than manage it from a distance.
That's what I bring into the room with you: genuine curiosity, a grounded presence, and a deep respect for the pace at which real change happens.
I'm a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (RTC #2923) with the Association of Cooperative Counselling Therapists of Canada, and I've been practicing and studying in the holistic healing field for over a decade.
My training draws from somatic and body-based approaches, parts work, mindfulness-based practice, and traditional yoga as a path of inner inquiry, self-relationship, and re-parenting the parts of us that didn't get what they needed. Nervous system regulation runs through all of it — the thread that connects body, pattern, and lasting change.
Together, these threads form an approach that is as much lived as it is learned, and I would be honoured to share it with you.