Services
- Individual
- Couples
About My Clients
I primarily work with queer women who had to grow up too fast and are looking for a way to stop abandoning their own needs. My clients usually come to me knowing that they need to approach their emotions but have no idea how to do it. The folks I work with are often navigating difficult relationships with their emotionally complicated mothers. They come to me trying to understand the ways that this has impacted their sense of self, relationships, and health.
How I Can Help You
My approach is collaborative. It integrates relational and attachment-based elements with liberation psychology as the framework. I implement gentle challenging & parts work, creative exploration, open and honest dialogue, inner and outer narrative of worldview, systemic & cultural influence, and great respect for the body/mind connection. I am warm, inquisitive, responsive, strategic, direct, steady, will challenge you, curious, nonjudgemental. I use humor, pattern recognition, and creativity. You don’t have to fix anything this time. You’re a human. A good one; and you’re exhausted. You can soften in a world that has tried to harden you. You can be all that you are and still belong.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
This practice is a values-based practice. I operate through the lens that you are the expert in your own experiences. This means that when you tell me something, I am going to believe it. I operate through the lens of Liberation Psychology which means I believe that until we are all free, no one is. Therapy is political. This practice implements and work with culturally responsive, anti-oppressive frameworks. I also recognize the inherent carceral nature of health worker systems and am always implementing strong criticism to the field I am a part of. I am a millennial, queer, eldest daughter, and fluid. I’m Puerto Rican & Italian. That identity affords me a whole lot, while also leaving me feeling quite lost at times. I move through the world in a body that has chronic illness and is dynamically disabled. You can always ask me about my values, political, social, and religious beliefs. My practice is values based and am always happy to discuss this in a consultation.