Meet Victoria
Your Executive Function Specialist
I’ve spent my career learning about and helping neurodivergent individuals. I’m a former Special Education Teacher (MS ED), Creative Arts Therapist (MA, ATR), Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Project Management Professional (PMP), and Certified Menopause Coach.
Knowing what to do isn’t the same as being able to do it when you need it. That’s something I’ve seen throughout my career, and it’s shaped how I work. Understanding what’s happening matters, but so does learning how to apply what you know, practicing it in your actual life, and figuring out what to change when something isn’t working.
My education and experience come together in that process in a few different ways:
Special Education Teacher
Education is an important part of our process. I teach you how executive functioning works, but learning something and being able to use it aren’t always the same thing. We’ll work on understanding the skills, practicing them, and figuring out how to apply them in your actual life.
Therapist
I help you recognize the automatic thoughts, learned responses, anxiety, guilt, perfectionism, and internal rules that may be affecting how you function. Then we can work on what needs to be challenged, unlearned, or practiced differently.
Project Manager
This isn’t open-ended work. We’ll define the scope, prioritize, break down goals, evaluate what’s working, and adjust when your capacity or circumstances change.
Creative Arts Therapist
We’ll think outside the box together. We can create and experiment with systems, plans, tools, homework, and different ways of approaching a problem instead of assuming there’s one right way to do it.
Menopause Coach
I understand that changes in functioning don’t happen in a vacuum. Hormonal transitions may be one of the contributors worth examining when something that used to work suddenly doesn’t.
All of these experiences shape how I work with you. We’ll figure out what’s happening, learn what you need, put it into practice, and use what happens next to decide what to adjust.
The goal isn’t for you to need me every time something changes. It’s for you to understand yourself and what works well enough to start making those decisions yourself.
executive function sessions in a nutshell
This isn’t open-ended How did your week go? work. Our sessions are focused, structured, and specific to what you’re working on.
We’re gathering data, building perspective, and looking for those lightbulb moments where something finally clicks. When you understand what’s happening and why, you have information you can do something with.
For many neurodivergent people, understanding the why can be an important part of wanting to make a change. And that’s where we start turning what you’re learning into actionable changes in your everyday life.
Here’s how our work together looks:
- Come in with data. Complete homework, track something specific, or practice what we identified in your previous session.
- Look for the lightbulb moment. We’ll examine the data together, make connections, and identify what you need to learn, unlearn, or practice differently. Maybe an environment needs adjusting, or a boundary needs to be set.
- Leave with a plan. Decide on next steps. Are we building on a habit, putting a strategy in place, or adding to a data set? We’ll plan your homework and set the agenda for our next session.
- Practice it in your day-to-day. Apply what you’re learning, experiment with changes, and notice what happens in your actual life.
The goal goes beyond finding another productivity hack.
Our goal isn’t to find the productivity hack that works for now or simply readjust your systems. The work goes deeper than that. I want you to learn how to identify what changed when your executive functioning feels like it’s gone off the rails again, whether that’s your ADHD, your capacity, your environment, or something else affecting how you’re functioning. Maybe that means creating a new thought pattern, changing a habit, building a different system, or adjusting something that used to work but doesn’t anymore.
You’re walking away with education, skills, and the ability to recognize what’s happening and start making changes on your own instead of immediately thinking, There goes my ADHD again.
And yes, the 30 minutes is intentional.
You’re practicing how to synthesize what you want to say, stay with the task in front of you, and retain what we worked on instead of following a thought loop down a rabbit hole and leaving the session thinking, Wait. What did we even do?
Want to nerd out and understand the methodology?
Come down the rabbit hole.
Here’s a deep dive into our executive-function work
And why it goes much deeper than productivity strategies.
Whether you were the kid who was always being told “you’re too much,” “sit down,” or “why can’t you do this without me telling you?”…
Or you were the kid who was good on purpose, quietly hiding the imperfections, scrambling to finish your homework, reteaching yourself lessons at home instead of asking for help, and spending hours deliberating over the perfect birthday gift…
You’re walking in the door with a set of automatic thoughts, internal rules, habits, and personal systems you’ve built over time based on your experiences and responses from the world around you.
Some of what you taught yourself was really important at the time. It helped you kill it during a big presentation, get through high school, get into the college of your choice, or become really successful at work.
Some of those same responses may even still work really well in certain parts of your life.
But they aren’t necessarily working everywhere.
I’m killing it at running my business, but my workspace is a mess.
I wish I wasn’t relying on my partner to do so much.
I really need a good kick in the butt. I need to get started and stay started.
By now, some of these thoughts, rules, habits, and responses may feel more like knee-jerk reactions than choices. And you may not even realize you’re doing them all day, every day.
Our work begins by breaking that down.
And no, we don’t do it by laying on the couch and spilling your guts.
We start by collecting data.
I teach you how to differentiate between experiences that can look very similar in your day-to-day life: ADHD, anxiety, burnout, hormonal changes, external pressures, and the host of other things that can get lumped together as:
My ADHD brain is malfunctioning again.
Then we bring that information into session and figure out what it’s telling us.
Maybe the data shows anxiety is playing a bigger role than you realized. Now we can look at what’s triggering that fight-or-flight response and start working on a different response.
A timer or planner was never going to do that.
Maybe we’re looking at an automatic response you’ve practiced so many times that now we need to work on unlearning it, practicing something different, and building a new habit in its place.
Our conversations might sound more like:
Where did this response come from? What “rule” did you teach yourself? What thoughts or actions are happening automatically? Did you learn that when X happens, it means something has gone wrong or that you should feel bad about it? Is that response helping you now? Or can we use what happened as data and adjust? What do you need to learn or practice instead?
And the really important piece of all of this is: what you’ve learned, you can UNLEARN.
This isn’t about accepting, My ADHD brain is broken and can’t be fixed.
That’s an internal narrative we can look at, too.
We’ll identify what skills you need to learn, responses you can practice differently, habits you can change, and environments you may need to reorganize, while understanding why those changes help.
Our work will look very different depending on what your data is telling us.
Maybe we’re learning how to understand time and then building time-management skills.
Maybe you’re practicing more flexible thinking so you can assess the time, energy, and capacity you actually have and adjust the scope of your goal instead of deciding the whole plan is shot.
Maybe we’re challenging an automatic negative thought or internal rule that’s contributing to perfectionism, guilt, poor boundaries, or a pattern you keep repeating.
Maybe we’re organizing your environment so you can actually see what you have and find what you need.
Maybe we’re figuring out what can be delegated or exported and working on the guilt that tells you needing help means you’ve failed.
Maybe we’re practicing a different response until it stops requiring so much conscious effort.
Where we start starts with your data.
We’re never just throwing productivity hacks on the table and hoping one sticks.
This work is about learning, relearning, making changes, and understanding why those changes help you so that when we walk away from working together, your day-to-day feels more manageable, you’re showing up for yourself the way you were hoping to, and you know how to apply what you’ve learned to keep the work going without me.
Executive function work can feel a little like finally learning how Grandma makes the secret sauce. You understand what goes into it, why it works, and how to adjust when something changes.
Ready to jump in?
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Book an Intro Session
We’ll start with a 30-minute video call. Come as you are. You don’t need to have your goals perfectly organized or know exactly what kind of support you need.
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Strategy First
Planning begins during our intro session. We’ll talk about the scope of the work, your goals, possible iterations, timeline, expectations, and the external challenges that could affect the project.
We can discuss prior project fails. Because if we know where things tend to go sideways, we can plan for them instead of pretending they won’t happen.
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No expectations
We’ll decide if working together feels like a good fit.
If it does, we’ll schedule future sessions and get your first homework in motion.
If it doesn’t, that’s okay too. The goal is for you to leave with a clearer idea of what might make sense next. Maybe that’s CBT, an ADHD evaluation, medication management, or another kind of support. We can talk through those possibilities during the intro session.