Victoria Gonzales, MA, LPC

07/14/2026

Was so excited for these Swift Kick cards. #001 was inspired by a beautiful soul I met this weekend. ❤️

07/09/2026

I know it's late but I almost forgot to celebrate my Kick in the Ass Anniversary. Four years ago, I decided to take a step into private practice and I had no idea what i was doing. I already had a pending caseload and no money. I literally was robbing Peter to pay Paul type s**t. I didn't know what was going to happen but I was delusional about my vision, passionate about what I desire to connect and help people, and I whole heartedly believed I could do this. My fear of failing was never bigger than my love for people and my purpose to heal and serve. Now four years later, Kick in the Ass Counseling is growing strong, I just hired on a bomb ass therapist - so now we're a group practice, I got to speak on a podcast (my 1st and definitely not my last), I'm guest speaking this weekend, and I have some more things working in the background. I'm extremely grateful for this journey and I'm so excited to see everything I've ever dreamed up come to fruition. We're just at the beginning of this journey... just wait 💥💪🏽🫶🏼

06/11/2026

05/28/2026

For a long time, I never marketed myself as someone who worked with grief.

Not because I didn’t care.
Not because I didn’t understand loss intellectually.
But because I had never experienced the kind of grief that completely changes the way you move through the world.

Then in 2025, grief found me in two very different ways.

And honestly, it humbled me.

I wrote a blog about the complicated reality of grief — the guilt, the confusion, the physical pain, the way different losses can feel completely different from each other, and the realization that sometimes grief doesn’t make sense at all.

This is probably one of the most vulnerable things I’ve written publicly.

Not as a therapist trying to have all the answers.
Just as a human trying to understand something deeply painful.

If you’re grieving, especially silently, I hope this makes you feel less alone.

https://www.kickintheasscounseling.com/post/i-m-a-therapist-and-i-still-don-t-understand-grief

04/28/2026

So excited to be expanding my practice in an even more meaningful way!! ☺️