Victoria is a multilingual child and family therapist at CHC’s Palo Alto clinic, where she supports youth aged 5–18 and their families through neurodevelopmentally and trauma-informed care. Her work integrates sensory-somatic, socioemotional, and cognitive approaches, using structured assessments and neurobiological principles to design developmentally appropriate, experiential interventions that promote healing and growth.

She connects through warmth, joy, creativity, and humor to build resilience. Her goals are for children to develop accepting self-awareness, agency, and—most importantly—relational health. A “maker” at heart, Victoria often uses hand-crafted materials co-created with students to translate abstract therapeutic concepts into tangible, memorable experiences that foster engagement with challenging emotions.

Her practice reflects a deep respect for environment and learning. She designs her office as a soothing, child-owned space and integrates psychoeducation on brain development and mental health to demystify behavior and empower informed self-reflection.

Victoria has worked with children and parents across diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds—from European expat families at the Lycée Français to Catholic school communities in Noe Valley and underserved African American and Latino families in San Francisco’s Mission District. Her clinical experience includes anxiety, depression, neurodevelopmental conditions, eating disorders, screen addiction, and trauma-related Z-code factors such as self-harm, suicidality, homelessness, and abuse histories.

She began her career in finance (Credit Suisse First Boston) and strategy consulting (Boston Consulting Group), earned an MBA from Stanford, and spent a decade in executive search (Egon Zehnder) advising global organizations. This work gave her a deep understanding of leadership and the personal qualities of successful people. Unlocking potential in the C-suite begins in homes and schools—hence her life purpose of improving how we raise the next generations. With a systems mindset, she brings a strengths-based, interdisciplinary approach to coordination and caregiver engagement.

A lifelong learner and mother of two (aged 20 and 9), Victoria has lived in nine countries, speaks five languages, and sustains her joy through reading, open-water swimming, and playing the accordion—to her delight and everyone else’s dismay.

Education

• MSc Psychology, Western Institute for Social Research
• MBA Stanford Graduate School of Business
• MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• BSc Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland

Licenses

• LMFT, 157584
• APCC, 16448

Professional Affiliations

• CAMFT

Languages

• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Greek