I work with young adults, adults, and couples who want to understand themselves more deeply, especially when identity, relationships, family, culture, faith, sexuality, grief, or trauma have made belonging feel complicated. Many of the people I work with know what it’s like to live between worlds, caring deeply about where they come from while also questioning what still fits.
You don’t have to choose between understanding your story and deciding who you want to be moving forward. We can make room for both.
All of you gets to come into the room. You can be angry and grateful. You can love someone and resent them. You can grieve something you chose or question something you once deeply believed. You can swear, laugh at something that probably isn’t funny, or tell me I’m wrong.
You also don’t have to perform therapy correctly or make your story easier for me to hold. I’m here to listen and understand, but I’m also going to challenge you. We’ll get curious about patterns, draw connections between different chapters of your life, and sometimes move toward the things you’ve spent a long time going around instead of through.
My hope is that therapy becomes a place where you don’t have to compartmentalize yourself anymore. We can make room for your story, your culture, your relationships, your beliefs, your sexuality, your desires, and the parts of yourself you’re still figuring out. We’ll work toward understanding how you became who you are and deciding more intentionally who you want to be moving forward.
My approach is relational, trauma-informed, multisystemic, and multicultural. I’m interested in the cultural, familial, spiritual, and relational systems that have shaped you, the roles you’ve learned to take on, and the parts of yourself you may have learned to keep separate.
We’ll look at your past, not because we need to blame it for everything, but because your story matters. Understanding where your patterns came from can help us make sense of why they’re here now, develop compassion for the person who needed them, and decide more intentionally what you want to carry forward.
I draw from Relationally-Focused Psychodynamic Therapy (RFPT), narrative therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and trauma-informed approaches, depending on what fits you and the work we’re doing together.
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I was born in Cuba and grew up in California. I wear many hats and have lots of interests! I enjoy nature, walking, biking, running, traveling and going on lots of adventures. I’m a foodie and a lover of culture. I also enjoy the arts in the form of music, painting, theater and other artistic expressions. I try to stay very active with loved ones, pets, love doing sports, building things, and trying to new things. I enjoy staying connected to myself, continually discovering new aspects of who I am—not being boxed in, but staying wild and true and a student of life. A quote I love is:
“By the second half of life, all our growth will come from ‘failure, humiliation, and suffering; things falling apart. Dissolution is the only thing that allows the soul to go to a deeper place.” -Brian Recker, Hell Bent
