Victoria Ford

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Hello, I’m Victoria.

I’m a Somatic Psychotherapist with twenty-five years of experience supporting women and families 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 expanding within it.

As more people seek body–mind–spirit approaches, I’ve learned to ethically weave somatic and holistic methods 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 real, we are in "coherence"  - sometimes called alignment or embodiment. 

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

In my twenties I moved to California—close to the ocean, redwoods, and mountains—where I married, became a mother, and experienced a profound awakening. I remembered my original calling to be a therapist, one I had known since ninth grade but buried under 'practicality' and doubt.

After returning to Kansas City and completing my graduate degree in 2000, I devoted my career to helping people find inner connection, resolve trauma, and build resilience. Over the years, I’ve walked through many portals—divorce, remarriage, illness, and midlife transitions—all of which have deepened my understanding of love, safety, and healing.

I’ve learned that healing is not a destination; it’s a lifelong unfolding. 

We are not meant to do it alone! And not meant to be confined as we do it. We can move, stretch, lay down, go outside, walk, meet via video - we need flexibility and that alone is a huge healer, and remembrance. 

As women, our passages—through motherhood, perimenopause, and beyond—are meant to be witnessed and supported. 

My own menopause journey became a profound teacher, revealing that this passage is not only biological but deeply spiritual. I keep evolving, right alongside the women I support.

If you know me for long I'll share something about the adventure of camping via a renovated ambulance, or in a more traditional (and most recent) little travel trailer. 

Living and growing outside the limits of four walls reminds me that outdoors offers gateways to new perspectives, easy aliveness and sweet rest. Whatever medicine you need, there is a mirror of it in nature, waiting for you.  

We don’t rush.

Transformation arises naturally as your nervous system gains capacity to receive it.

Our work centers your body’s wisdom. We build capacity gently and intentionally, creating the conditions for real, embodied change.

Between my sessions, I pause to re-center—lighting palo santo, offering gratitude for the session that just ended, and preparing to meet the next soul with presence and care. I suggest practices and things to do between your therapy sessions too,  to support your well being and gentle movement towards your goals. 

All that has come before—my training, experience, and life passages—has shaped a practice that values quality of presence over quantity of clients.

I would be honored to walk with you on your journey toward deeper connection, healing, and wholeness.