Services
- Individual
About My Clients
I enjoy supporting women of color as they embark on their wellness journey. Culture and family significantly impact our development and I invite clients to share their personal journey. I remain culturally humble, curious, and center clients' story and experience. Some themes we can explore in therapy include anxiety, depression, trauma, including intergenerational trauma, transitions, life coaching, family issues, and grief/loss including motherless daughters and motherless mothers.
My Background and Approach
I am an active and empathic listener and work to create the safety that clients need to be authentic, to heal, and to grow. I work with clients to identify patterns, invite new insights, help them stay with difficult feelings, facilitate emotional awareness and expression, and encourage them as they practice new behaviors. My interventions depend on clients' needs, for example, I may offer reflection, facilitate insight/awareness, recommend accessible strategies to cope, teach and practice strategies in session, and/or provide a safe place for clients to be heard and understood. I am integrative in my approach to therapy and primarily incorporate interpersonal, multicultural, feminist, social-justice, cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), trauma-informed, strengths-based, and solution-focused approaches in my clinical work. I have trained in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, which can help people heal from distressing life experiences and traumatic events.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I believe we all have strengths, gifts, and have the power to overcome difficult life experiences. We are capable of learning new things about ourselves and continue to grow. I enjoy working with high achieving women/mujeres as they are becoming aware of outdated internalized messages that don't serve them, work to breakdown and unlearn these messages, and practice new ways of relating with others and themselves. Let's build more self-kindness and self-compassion. What are some of your practices that have supported you in your journey? There are many forms of healing and talk therapy is one of many. I will make space for holistic healing that includes the body, mind, and soul. Let's chat!