Services
- Individual
About My Clients
The folks I work with tend to be women & femmes of various family & cultural backgrounds. They are spiritual & magical and may be newly connecting or reconnecting to cultural/ magical/ pre-colonial ways of healing for the first time or comfortably settled into their spiritual practices & routines. They tend to be the oldest daughters of their family or the sibling who had the most responsibility growing up. Because of this trauma, they are naturally driven, ambitious, & self motivated.
My Background and Approach
They honestly wouldn't even be in therapy if they weren't stuck in their own stuff- because they are used to doing it all on their own. I know how lonely it is because I've been there. You want to move forward, live out your dreams and goals with your chosen family, those that get you, & share your values. I can help you get un-stuck by holding space with you, getting to the nitty gritty of what's blocking you, and sharing my knowledge & experience with trauma processing, integration & regulation so you feel integrated enough, not perfect, but authentic to go forward & live the life you want to live. The folks I work with also want to bring their spirituality into their therapy. It's a part of them, as a whole, and cannot be separated from their wellness.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I am spiritually informed. Spiritually informed therapy means I don’t neglect the spiritual component in trauma work and in the biopsychosocial-spiritual lens of clinical social work, however, I am a mental health therapist in our work together. The space I hold is pro pre-colonial healing. That means I believe in the healing work non-mental health professionals are doing: traditional/ cultural community healers/practitioners, astrologers, etc. If spirituality is helpful to you, and with your consent, I may point you in the direction of other resources, for your information, if I think they may be helpful. Spiritually informed therapy encompasses exploring & supporting where you’re at in the spiritual component of wellness and with respect to your culture, values & beliefs. I am particularly informed in astrology, tarot, paganism, and Mexican-American experiences.