Victoria Ford, LMFT, SEP

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I’m a Somatic Psychotherapist and Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with twenty-five years of experience supporting women through trauma, transition, and transformation.

For years I thought I might need to step outside the clinical world to include the holistic and spiritual practices that shaped my own healing. 

Eventually I realized the expansion I needed wasn’t about leaving my profession—it was about me expanding within it.

As more people seek body-mind-spirit approaches, I’ve learned to ethically weave somatic and holistic-based practices into therapy, in service of each client’s goals and comfort. 

Holistic work doesn’t replace therapy—it deepens it. 

When the nervous system, body, and spirit are included, change is not just understood; it’s experienced in the body. 

I was raised in Kansas City and have always been drawn to soulful questions about how we heal and become who we are.

In my twenties I lived on the West Coast—near the ocean, redwoods, and mountains. 

Those landscapes awakened a remembering in me and a call to return home and become a therapist. 

I completed my graduate degree in 2000 and began a career devoted to helping people find inner connection, truer meanings than they had,  and peace.

Over time I’ve walked through many portals—divorce and re-marriage in midflie, deep friendships, cancer and a radical hysterectomy at age 42, and each one has reshaped my understanding of love, safety, and nervous-system healing.

These experiences taught me that healing is not a one-time destination but a living conversation between body, mind, and spirit. 

-That support is necessary - again and again I learn, it's not the design to do this life alone, and women for eons have walked through rites of passage together. 

We're just not meant to do it alone.

We have to kind of swim upstream from our culture to get past these distorted and very common beliefs of women: "I oughta get this by now! This shouldn't be happening..." and I should be doing better!" 

Here's your invitation to get help with the upstream swimming thing. :) 

There's an easier way. 

My menopause journey, too, became a profound teacher—revealing that this passage is not only biological but also deeply spiritual. And I keep evolving, right along with you, thank goodness.

We don’t rush. 

Possibilities for transformation emerge as you hold greater capacity to receive it. 

Building your nervous system capacity with gentleness and intention, 

and centering your female innate wisdom, 

is a big part of our work together. 

It supports opening the pathway for the transformation you want.   It's a necessary step and there are endless benefits. 

Our nervous system capacity is changeable; and it leads the way in what change our body-mind-spirit can integrate and step into. In service of my own nervous system capacity, which then serves others, I schedule 3 days a week. 

I schedule pauses in-between sessions so I can breathe, not rush my clients or myself, stay focused on the present moment and person I am with. 

In between, I light some palo santo and offer a ritual/prayer of well wishes and belief in the client that I just finished working with.  I re-energize my space and myself to freshen. often circling chimes around my body which feels refreshing and soothing. I bring to mind and heart the next person that is coming and prepare my space, my highest self, my mind and body and spirit. 

I am affected by people. Thank goodness! There is always something I learn and grow from personally in every session or interaction. I offer myself space to integrate how the experience of that session was for me; are there any parts of me that want a hug, want to move, or that tugged on me to say "hey, pay attention to this for me too" - anything that needs comforting, clearing, or completing.  

My intention is to be an embodied presence, for myself and for the next beautiful soul that will walk through the door to meet with me. 

I am incredibly grateful to have received somatic training for how it changed my own body and life. 

All that has come before in my life has helped me to arrive here and create the practice that I have; with priorities of quality of presence over quantity of clients. 

And I hope to meet with you too, and support you on your journey!