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About My Clients
My ideal clients are high-functioning, conscientious women who appear successful on the outside but feel anxious, overextended, or unfulfilled in relationships. Many are overachievers, people-pleasers, or the “go-to” person who learned early to be self-reliant. I help clients understand the roots of these patterns, reduce anxiety and guilt, set healthier boundaries, and build relationships that feel more secure, reciprocal, and aligned with who they truly are.
My Background and Approach
My work is grounded in over 20 years of experience providing individual therapy and couples counseling from a trauma-informed, relational perspective. I am bilingual in English and Spanish, which allows me to offer care that feels culturally attuned and emotionally accessible. I am trained in several evidence-based, trauma-informed modalities, including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), DBT, and attachment-focused approaches. Rather than relying on a single method, I integrate these frameworks to meet each client’s unique needs and pace, helping therapy feel flexible, personalized, and effective. Clients often benefit from my ability to connect present-day anxiety, relationship struggles, and self-doubt to earlier relational or developmental experiences, without pathologizing or blaming. My approach helps clients gain insight into long-standing patterns, regulate their nervous system, and develop healthier ways of relating to themselves and others. I work especially well with high-
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
My beliefs and values are deeply shaped by growing up within a different culture and learning, firsthand, what it means to feel split or divided—between worlds, expectations, identities, and roles. That lived experience has given me a deep sensitivity to the ways feeling like an outsider can shape a person’s sense of self, relationships, and emotional safety. I hold a special attunement for clients who feel different or unseen in some way—whether because of race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability, culture, or any identity that has required them to adapt, code-switch, or shrink parts of themselves to belong. At the core of my work are self-compassion, acceptance, and freedom: learning to meet yourself with kindness rather than criticism, to see things as they are (even when you don’t like them), and to reclaim agency over your choices and your life. While I value depth, insight, and understanding the past, I am equally results-oriented and practical—continually helping clients t