Services
- Individual
About My Clients
While I have experience working with clients on a wide variety of concerns, issues, and goals, I am most passionate about addressing interpersonal relationships, self-image, sexuality, gender, work stress, life goals, burnout, life transitions, spirituality, caregiving, and how to survive systemic oppression/marginalization. I have a chronic illness, so I work best with clients who can be flexible with their availability as I sometimes need to reschedule for health reasons.
My Background and Approach
I use an eclectic and relational approach that combines aspects of psychodynamics, ACT, IFS, mindfulness, attachment theory, harm reduction, EMDR, and trauma-informed counseling that’s tailored to each client's needs and preferences. While formal diagnoses can 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 helps get you where you want to be. My goal is to create a space where you feel safe, heard, and respected without judgement or pressure. ~Bi-weekly or monthly sessions are an option.~
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, and radical models of health care delivery. I am a chronically ill, pansexual/queer, cisgender, Puerto Rican/Boricua (Latine) woman in my 40s. I'm actively learning more about disability justice and fat liberation, and how to directly support and increasingly incorporate both movements in my work. I am not an expert in any identity or experience other than my own, and I continuously aim to learn and grow in all areas. ~ Too often, clients who are anti-capitalist, highly Covid-conscious/cautious, non-monogamous, kinky, or have non-mainstream spiritual beliefs, 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 difficulty of living in a judgmental and oppressive world.