about me

I’ve always been drawn to the intersections of healing, social justice, and radically compassionate care—spaces where depth is valued, community is honored, and no one has to navigate alone.

Through mentorship, chosen family, and community, I learned the importance of reciprocating the kindness that sustained me in my young adulthood. My journey began as an academic peer counselor at a community college, supporting first-generation students, and continued as a qualitative research assistant working alongside survivors of gender-based violence.

I went on to serve in non-profits and health care settings, providing counseling services for families, adolescents, and professionals of color across New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

As a Los Angeles native who spent formative years in New York City, I bring both a West Coast expansiveness and an East Coast depth to my practice. My praxis—my integrated, reflective approach to healing—emerges from lived experience navigating systems of power, privilege, and cultural expectation. It’s rooted in honoring intersectionality, supporting decolonization of ancestral wisdom, and holding space for intergenerational trauma to be witnessed and transformed.

I work especially well with first-generation professionals and creatives—people exploring what it means to reclaim their creativity while grieving survival strategies that once kept them safe. I support cycle breakers unlearning dysfunctional family patterns, high-achievers wrestling with imposter syndrome, and those seeking to cultivate a more authentic, intimate, and liberated inner landscape.

My approach is collaborative, culturally attuned, and centered on helping clients build the inner clarity, safety, and self-compassion needed to create meaningful change in their relationships and communities.

At A glance,

• Roles Held: Therapist , Clinical Supervisor Mentor, Facilitator, Regional Associate Director of Social Work , MSW Field Instructor

• Licensed Clinical Social Worker in the state of New York and California.

• Specialized Training:

  • Internal Family Systems Level 1 (2019)

  • Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy 1 & 2 (AEDP) (2024), (2025)

  • Brainspotting Phase 1 (2023)

  • Somatic Abolitionism (2022)

  • Chicana/o/x Affirmative Therapy (2021)

• Trauma-Informed Yoga Instructor with a focus on restorative and yin practices (2019).

• Consultant for wellness studios, facilitating trauma-informed workshops in teacher training curricula that emphasize decolonizing ancestral healing practices and providing psychologically safe space-holder training (2020–present).

• Education: New York University Silver School of Social Work, California State University Long Beach, and Mt. San Antonio Community College.