Services
- Individual
About My Clients
While I have interest and experience addressing a wide range of topics, I am most passionate about working with clients on interpersonal relationships, sexuality, gender, finding meaning or purpose in life, and the harm that comes from systemic oppression/marginalization and environmental destruction. I have a chronic illness, so I work best with clients who can be flexible with their availability as I sometimes need to reschedule on short notice for medical reasons.
My Background and Approach
My approach combines aspects of psychodynamic therapy, ACT, IFS, mindfulness, harm reduction, and trauma-informed counseling that’s tailored to each client's needs and preferences. While formal diagnoses can sometimes be helpful to both the client and therapist, I’m more interested in how you understand and experience your concerns and circumstances. Therapy is highly personalized and looks different for everyone, so we will figure out together what approach and style will help you get to where you want to be. My goal is to create a space where you feel safe, heard, and respected without judgement or pressure. For those seeking *in-network* therapy: I work through Headway, a virtual platform that helps process your insurance and calculate your co-pay for no extra fee. For those seeking *out-of-network* services: I can provide a superbill for you to submit to your insurance company. I also work with folks who want/need to pay out of pocket.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
Since the year 2000, I have been involved in various collectives and projects focused on mutual aid, dual power, anti-racism, abolition, sexual health, worker power/liberation, and radical models of health care delivery. I am a chronically ill, queer, cisgender, Puerto Rican/Boricua (Latine) woman. I actively work on learning more about disability justice and fat liberation, and how to directly support and increasingly incorporate both movements in my work. I do not consider myself an expert in any identity or experience other than my own, and I continuously aim to learn and grow in all areas. My experience of therapy--both as a provider and a client--has shown me that anti-capitalist/anti-fascist and CNM/kinky clients often have therapists that misunderstand them at best or pathologize their values and practices at worst. I aim to counterbalance that and fairly serve folks who seek support through and healing from the pain of living in this oppressive and destructive world.