Victoria Muñoz 

My Approach

Therapy is a deeply vulnerable endeavour. I believe it is important for clients to get to know just with who they are entrusting their most vulnerable concerns. Growing up, I quickly recognized my affinity for caregiving and meaning making. My curiosity about the inner workings of the human psyche (our psychological and emotional body) was relentless. More than anything, I wanted to understand others in all of their uniqueness. I wanted to be a safe space for them to divulge. To make them to feel seen, heard, and validated. Over time, through personal experience and higher education, this tenderness toward others was complemented by the development of a more sophisticated understanding of the psychological, emotional, social, and financial impacts of sociocultural context and social location (e.g. religion, race, culture, gender, age, ability, etc.). Of the experience of living with complex intersecting identities and the profound consequences of dominant societal narratives and power and privilege. The values that underpin my work are the values that underpin my life and my relationships with others: authenticity, agency and empowerment, accountability, healing, resilience, radical acceptance of ourselves and the human experience, and critical examination of relational dynamics and power structures. My conscious commitment to these values has allowed my work with clients to remain holistic, humanistic, non-judgemental, anti-oppressive & culturally sensitive, strengths-based, and trauma-informed.