Meet Victoria Reyna
Licensed Professional Counselor · ADHD-CCSP · Texas & New Mexico
I work with adults who are trying to make sense of how ADHD shows up in their lives. Not just in productivity, but in self-worth, relationships, burnout, emotional regulation, and the pressure of trying to keep up.
Because honestly, we’re all just trying to hold it together out here. Some of us are doing it with a brain that didn’t come with a standard instruction manual.
Whether you’re newly exploring ADHD, were diagnosed years ago and still feel like no one really explained what it means, or you’re starting to wonder if autism is part of the picture too, my role is to help you understand your patterns with more clarity and less shame. And maybe a little less self-judgment while we’re at it.
My clinical work is focused on adults. If you’re looking for child or teen therapy, please review the team page to see whether another clinician may be a better fit.
I’m often the best fit for adults who:
- Suspect they may have ADHD and want real clarity.
- Were diagnosed earlier in life but never fully understood what it meant for their daily life.
- Have an ADHD diagnosis that felt right but incomplete, and are starting to wonder if autism is part of the picture too.
- Feel overwhelmed, burned out, or like they’re always behind no matter how much they do.
- Are tired of being told to just try harder, use a planner, or think more positively.
- Want therapy and assessments that are affirming, practical, and grounded in real understanding, from someone who gets it clinically and personally.
Victoria Reyna
I’m a Licensed Professional Counselor serving clients in Texas and New Mexico. I specialize in adult ADHD and AuDHD therapy and comprehensive assessments for adults.
I wasn’t even a therapist yet when it started. During my master’s program we spent about twenty minutes on ADHD. That was it. Twenty minutes on something I would later learn is one of the most complex, most missed, and most misunderstood presentations in the mental health field. I left that class not knowing what I didn’t know, but something had quietly shifted.
At home, motherhood was harder than it felt like it needed to be. My daughter was six and our connection was a struggle. Not because either of us wasn’t trying, we were both trying hard. But we were doing it with frameworks that didn’t fit either of our brains, and neither of us knew that yet. I was navigating motherhood with unidentified ADHD. She was navigating childhood with the same. We were both doing our best with incomplete information.
Getting her help in El Paso wasn’t straightforward. This is a city six-plus hours from the nearest major Texas city, geographically isolated in a way that directly affects what resources exist here. The mental health field was skeptical about ADHD. And culturally, as a Latina, the message was clear: you are strong, you don’t air your struggles, and you certainly don’t pathologize your child. My family wasn’t dismissive out of cruelty, they compared us to families deeper in chaos and said we were doing fine. So the struggle became the norm. It just became what life looked like. I graduated in 2017 and life moved on. Then 2020 happened.
Three kids now instead of one. A practice to build. A world that had stopped making sense. I was drowning, I just didn’t know it yet. What I did know was that my daughter still needed more than she was getting. So I dove in. Not just for her, for all of it. Looking back, that deep dive was my brain doing exactly what it does under pressure: find a system, learn everything, adapt. I just didn’t have the language for it yet.
In 2023, I found out I was ADHD myself, and when I got that diagnosis, I saw my daughter differently all over again. I saw how hard she had been trying. I saw how big her emotions were and how much energy it took just to get through a day. I saw that the defiance I sometimes perceived wasn’t defiance at all — it was executive function difficulties in a brain that was doing its absolute best. Just like mine had been all along.
And still — some things didn’t fully click. There were patterns ADHD explained, but not completely. When I started learning more about autism and the overlap between the two, things began to make more sense. I’ve been exploring my own AuDHD identification, and it’s become an increasingly clear part of how I understand myself.
There’s a reason therapists are drawn to the work they do. Mine isn’t a coincidence. I built this practice out of my own story — the drowning, the adapting, the late realization, the pieces that finally started fitting together. That’s not a liability. That’s the whole point.
I’m not here to offer quick fixes or generic advice, you’ve likely heard plenty of that already. Instead, we’ll focus on finding meaningful strategies that actually fit you and your life, helping you maintain your momentum in a way that feels sustainable and fulfilling.
Why I started Rising Perspective Counseling
I started Rising Perspective Counseling in 2020 because I couldn’t find what I was looking for in the existing landscape. A practice that actually understood how ADHD shows up in adults, took it seriously, and built support around how the brain actually works rather than how it’s supposed to work.
The late ADHD diagnosis, the years of figuring it out without the right framework, the specific challenges of finding care in El Paso, all of it pointed to the same gap. So I built the practice I wished had existed.
RPC exists for adults who have spent years wondering why things feel harder than they should, and who are ready for real answers and support that actually fits.
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