Services
- Individual
- Couples
- Adolescent/Teen
About My Clients
I specialize in treating clients with eating disorders, generalized anxiety, and mood disorders, as well as clients experiencing the impact of interpersonal/relational trauma. My work with individuals who have felt unheard and invalidated has led me to conceptualize concerns related to eating disorders, anxiety, depression, and substance use as closely intertwined.
My Background and Approach
It is important to me that our therapeutic relationship fosters a safe, accepting, and collaborative space by exploring resilience, strengths, and informed curiosity. I strive to facilitate self-empowerment and self-efficacy through adaptive coping/behavioral skills, strengthening cognitive insight, while honoring that change is hard when life gets rough.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” This quote by Nelson Mandela is a value that I strive to live by each day. I provide my time in the form of workshops, free services, and mentorship/listening ear to immigrant youths in my community, and provide financial support to organizations that advocate for justice and equity such as ACLU and The Trevor's Project. I teach a diversity lab for graduate counseling students at Villanova University, and my take-away message for them is that fences, borders, and classism are created to maintain inequity, but our role is to not accept that reality and to not be untouched by each other's humanity. As an immigrant woman, my professional work is culturally-informed with an emphasis on social justice.