I’m a First Generation Chicana raised on the outskirts of the Seattle area. Growing up, I was a child of a dysfunctional family home and soon became independent of my family when I became a teen mom. 15 years later, my son is now a teenager and I work as a therapist supporting clients to work through their life challenges. As someone who is on their own healing journey, I will say the work is difficult and uncomfortable, but it’s also necessary and beautiful. As a wounded healer, I hope to provide clients with the support they need to step into their truth and give space to the parts of themselves that remain in the shadows.

I pull from a variety of therapeutic modalities in my work with clients. I lean heavily on Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT), Relational-Cultural Therapy, and trauma infromed mindfulness practices. In session, I intend to walk alongside my clients and collaborate with them on their process of healing all while making space for choice, exploration, wonder and joy. I strongly believe my work with clients is reciprocal, which is why I strive to challenge power dynamics and honor difference throughout treatment. Our relationship will be the foundation of our work together. It has been through a relational approach where I have witnessed healing in a way that is authentic and deeply impactful.

If you feel we would be a good fit for one another, please contact me for a free 20 minute consultation.

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Specialties

My work is rooted in Cultural Relational Therapy and Emotionally Focused Therapy for Individuals (EFIT). My work is primarily through means of talk therapy, but I also guide clients through a process of Somatic Therapy

• I am present in the sessions. By this I mean, I provide feedback to my clients, perspective, guidance, and structure to sessions resulting in a conversational and free-flowing overtone in therapeutic sessions. Therapy is a process and goes beyond one-sided ‘venting’ (Relational)
• I ask clients about their cultural values, norms, identity and experience in the world and take this into consideration in our treatment plan (Cultural Relational)
• I ask clients about their day/week and also dive into past experiences, childhood memories, and core relationships that have shaped their identity (attachment theory)— to understand current coping mechanisms and a client’s worldview (EFIT, Cultural Relational)
• I ask clients to pause, to engage in mindfulness practices, and to locate sensations/emotions in their body to give language to emotions that may struggle to be understood or articulated (Somatic Therapy)