“A healer is someone who seeks to be the light that she wishes she had in her darkest moments.”
-Vironika Tugaleva
A “Smile & Nod” Therapist? Not me.
I am a therapist who helps you remember that you’re not broken.
Victoria Carey, LISW-CP, LCSW
Not Your (Neuro-) Typical Therapist
Lived Experience
For more than three decades, I’ve worked with adults who are thoughtful, sensitive, creative, and often quietly exhausted—people who have spent a lifetime adapting, masking, and trying to make themselves fit in places that were never built with their nervous systems in mind. Many come to me wondering if ADHD, autism, or AuDHD might finally explain what they’ve always sensed but couldn’t name.
I’m neurodivergent myself, and that “lived knowing” shapes everything I do. I don’t believe in fixing what isn’t broken. I believe in understanding—how your mind works, how your body responds, and how much effort it has taken just to get here. Therapy, to me, is a place to exhale. A place where you don’t have to perform, justify, or keep holding it together.
Our Work Together
My work is gentle, conversational, collaborative, often humorous, and grounded in deep respect for your pace and your story. We focus on self-understanding, nervous system care, boundaries that protect rather than harden, and ways of living that feel more spacious and true. When trauma is part of the picture, I’m careful and clear about scope—honoring safety, timing, and the importance of the right kind of support.
At the heart of my work…
At the heart of my work is a simple but deeply held mission: to help you remember who you really are—beneath the expectations, the coping, and the roles you’ve had to play to survive. Not to reinvent yourself, but to come back into alignment with yourself.
You don’t need to become someone else to be okay. You need space to be fully yourself—mind, body, and spirit. My hope is to offer a place where you can feel seen, softened, and more at home in your own skin.
Outside of my clinical work, I’m an artist at heart. I find meaning in creativity, ritual, beauty, and quiet reflection—things that also inform how I show up in my work. I believe healing often happens not through urgency or pressure, but through being met with understanding and care.
In my personal life, I’m a creative and a caregiver. I understand energy as something precious, not infinite. I find meaning in fiber arts, photography, and the quiet rhythm of creating with my hands. Life has taught me about chronic strain, devotion, grief, and resilience—and about the necessity of kindness toward ourselves in the midst of it all.
I’ve also been a student of meditation and spirituality since my twenties. Over the years, this has naturally woven itself into how I understand healing, presence, and the human experience. I work with the understanding that energy is not separate from us—it moves through our bodies, our emotions, our histories, and our relationships. Practices such as mindfulness, attunement, and energy medicine inform my work in subtle but meaningful ways, always grounded in consent and respect for each person’s beliefs.
With my girl Rosie; one of my 2 Yellow Labs
Last but definitely not least, I’m the proud supporter of clients, friends and family who are LGBTQ+.
I wear my rainbow “free mom hugs” shirts proudly.
I’m politically active.
So, know that ours will be a safe space for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC “family,” no matter what.
“I always feel better after talking to Vicki. I always know she understands, especially when I talk about my ADHD. She gets it and doesn’t judge. It’s such a relief.”
Me with my Labbies, Rosie and Ollie. You’ll probably see them in session from time to time.
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