Meet Vicky Truong

We were lucky to catch up with Vicky Truong recently and have shared our conversation below.

Vicky, thanks for taking the time to share your lessons with our community today. So, let’s jump right in – one of the most essential skills for unlocking our potential is self-discipline. Where does your self-discipline come from?

My sense of discipline comes from having the lived experience of having a lack of discipline and direction, and feeling the consequences of it and the chaos it caused for me and those around me. My true discipline came when I started meditating and connecting every day with the Source and asking for guidance on how to navigate the day ahead and impact those around me best. I navigate the world through this connection and ask for guidance to be effective in every role that I play. When I start to feel a lack of discipline or dis-ease, I know I can always return to my connection.

Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?

I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist practicing in California. I focus on trauma healing through EMDR as well as couples therapy. I have my own private practice in the heart of downtown Tustin, CA. I will also be finishing my Ph.D. by May and becoming a Court-appointed Child Custody Evaluator in Orange County, which is exciting for me since I have 15 years of experience in the legal field and can finally combine both my niches.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

The three most impactful qualities were collaboration, curiosity, and adaptability. Our culture conditions us towards individuality and self-reliance. However, I’ve learned that asking for help and helping others took me farther than doing things on my own and seeing the world solely through a competitive lens. Curiosity and falling in love with the learning process is cliche but finding that flow in how I create, move through the day, or how I understand concepts or processes is something I’ve always enjoyed doing. Lastly, being a young mother navigating a full-time job, motherhood, and graduate school in the evenings, I had to learn how to let go of my rigidity of what my life should look like or how things should go according to schedule. It meant that, sometimes, nap time for my daughter meant 45 minutes of me looking through flashcards to study for that test, or that hour-long swimming lesson for her meant time to re-read that peer-reviewed article. Adapting to change regularly was a necessity in navigating the demands of my roles.

Tell us what your ideal client would be like?

My ideal client is something who is naturally a learner, perhaps even an over-achiever, who has a propensity towards overthinking and being anxious. This person cares deeply about society and world, and strives to make it a better place by improving their part of it. The people that choose to work with me are extremely caring, sensitive, smart, and are finding support on navigating and healing their inner world so that it reflects in the way they carry themselves in their day to day living.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.vickytruongtherapy.com
• Instagram: @itsvickytruong

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