I have experience with, and enjoy working with, youth, teens, and adults. I am committed to meeting people where they are, whatever stage of life they're in. I bring a developmental lens to this work, so our sessions are attuned to what's pressing for you specifically at this point in your life, not a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy.

I have over 20 years of experience working with individuals and families impacted by trauma. Some specific areas include immigration trauma, incarceration, gang involvement, community violence, relationship and family violence, and sociopolitical trauma, including racial and collective trauma, among others. I approach this work through a trauma-informed lens, grounded in the question "What has happened to you?" rather than "What is wrong with you?" I bring a relational, trauma-informed approach, along with tools from CBT, mindfulness, and narrative therapy when they're a good fit for you.

As someone who is neurodivergent myself, I bring both professional and lived understanding to this work. I have a particular passion for supporting late-diagnosed women, many of whom spent years being misdiagnosed or told they were anxious, depressed, or "too much," before ever hearing the words autism or ADHD applied to them. I also want to speak directly to giftedness, since it's often left out of these conversations. For many gifted people, there's a particular loneliness in being told, or sensing yourself, that you're capable while quietly struggling to keep up in ways no one else seemed to notice, or never quite finding a space, academic, social, or otherwise, where you felt fully met, seen, and understood. I bring a neurodiversity-affirming lens to this work. My hope is to partner with you in a way that leaves you feeling more empowered and grounded in who you are, with a deeper understanding of yourself while offering a space to grieve what wasn't named sooner if that's part of your story, and the chance to build a life that feels true to you.

I support pregnant and birthing people through the transition of pregnancy and beyond, including the attachment work that comes with adapting to parenthood and building a relationship with a new baby. I also work with reproductive health more broadly, including navigating medical trauma you may have experienced, the complex healthcare system itself, and the reality that research on uterus-related health has historically been limited, which can leave people feeling dismissed or unheard by their own providers, which can be lonely and exhausting. For those navigating infertility, I hold space for the grief, the weight of ongoing treatments, and what can feel like an existential threat to your sense of identity, future, and self. This is not a linear or small experience, and I hope to be a supportive presence for you while you experience it.

Experiences with community violence, gang involvement, and human trafficking often leave people feeling profoundly alone, carrying intense feelings and experiences that can be hard to name, let alone share. I hope to offer a space where you can be witnessed in that experience, without judgment, as we build steps toward healing and safety together. This work is grounded in trust, trusting yourself, your instincts, and your right to exist without being defined by what happened to you or what you had to do to survive it. My hope is to support you in reclaiming a sense of freedom in who you are, separate from shame, labels, or judgment, whether that came from others or from yourself. No matter what you have done, what you have been through, or what you are carrying, you are not beyond being seen here. That includes the heaviest things, the ones you may feel you cannot say out loud anywhere else.

I am committed to providing affirming, inclusive care for people of all genders, gender expressions, and sexualities. I have worked with, and continue to work with, many people from the LGBTQ+ community, though I don't claim this as a specialized clinical focus. I can offer support around the trauma or other challenges that often come from how society responds to your identity, but because I don't know that identity from the inside myself, I may be limited in my support to you regarding your lived experience. What I can offer is a space where your identity is respected as part of who you are, not something to explain, justify, or center unless you want it to be.

Some challenges are best addressed through family therapy rather than individual work alone. I enjoy this role because it creates space for healing within the family unit, not just the individual. This can be a powerful path for ongoing family conflict, family trauma, navigating a loved one's mental health concerns, and communication difficulties. In this work, I draw on structural, systems, and narrative family therapy approaches.

Ni de aquí ni de allá, pero claro que si somos de aquí y de allá. As a Salvadoran American therapist, I welcome the opportunity to support my community. As a Latina belonging to two cultures, I have lived this tension myself, and I have walked alongside others living it too: the sense of not being "Latino enough" in one space and "too American" in another, and the ongoing work of figuring out who we are in relation to our culture of origin and to U.S. culture, often while carrying guilt, pride, grief, and love all at once. I hope to offer a supportive space to wrestle with this. As the daughter of immigrants and a first-generation Latina myself, I feel honored to support those navigating the immigrant experience with the stress that it could bring, especially for those navigating the undocumented experience. I am committed to providing a space that feels familiar, where you are seen in your values and beliefs, and where we don't have to explain what it means to center the Latine/X/o culture , or what it means to hold two cultures at once.

If it feels right and comfortable for you, I bring a lens that looks at how sociopolitical and historical forces, including current events, systemic racism and sexism, and a broader history of marginalization and oppression, continue to shape your present-day concerns. I apply a liberation-informed approach within existing therapy models, and I'm also open to naming and partnering with healing practices that are meaningful to you, even when they sit outside of Western therapy. My hope is to offer a frame where healing and justice are inseparable, and where many of today's mental health struggles are understood in light of these larger forces, not just as individual struggles alone.

I support individuals navigating the impact of relationship and family violence, whether that's something you're currently experiencing, something you've left, or something from your past, including in your childhood, that still shapes you today. I also work with individuals who have caused harm in their relationships and are seeking to understand and change that pattern. This work moves at your pace, whichever side of this experience you're coming from. I won't ask you to name or define your experience in a particular way, and we'll go only as far as feels right for you, whether that means safety planning, processing what happened, taking accountability if it applies, rebuilding trust in yourself and others, or finding a space that is safe enough to catch up to your experience.

I support individuals and families navigating incarceration and the transition of reentry, including the emotional and practical shifts that come when a loved one returns home going beyond just focusing on the crisis of arrest or incarceration itself. This work often means holding space for complicated feelings, including guilt, grief, exhaustion, and hope, sometimes all at once, and helping families build support for themselves as well as for the person coming home.

I provide clinical supervision to pre-licensed clinicians working toward licensure, as well as consultation to licensed clinicians seeking support in their ongoing practice. My approach draws on a relational, psychodynamic lens, including attention to use-of-self, alongside a liberation-informed framework that considers how systems, culture, and history show up in the therapy room, for both you and your clients. I also offer depth in assessment, helping you understand your clients through this same systemic lens rather than in isolation from the forces that have shaped them. I also bring particular depth to bilingual and bicultural supervision, recognizing that supervising in Spanish, or supervising bilingual clinicians serving Spanish-speaking clients, requires its own distinct skill set that integrates a cultural framework that moves away from just translating Western concepts to bilingual therapy services.