My path into psychotherapy began through the body. As a massage therapist, I became deeply attuned to the silent stories we carry: unspoken traumas, ancestral imprints, and emotional residues held in the nervous system. This early work awakened a reverence for the body’s innate intelligence: its capacity to heal when safety is reestablished, and to speak when we learn how to listen.

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I am particularly drawn to the stories we carry beneath words, the untold narratives encoded in sensation, posture, and presence. The work I offer is rooted in the belief that healing happens in relationship: with ourselves, with others, and with the environments that shape us. I support clients in broadening their capacity to feel, to sense, and to stay with the parts of themselves that long to be heard and integrated.

Using a bottom-up, person-centered humanistic approach, I weave somatic awareness and nervous system regulation, imaginal and ecopsychology, and depth-oriented inquiry to help clients come home to themselves. I also believe that our connection to the natural world plays a vital role in the healing process, offering grounding, perspective, and a deeper sense of belonging and aliveness. Movement, meditation, guided visualization, expressive art and embodied language are pathways I employ to restore connection to one’s internal world and to the wider relational field.

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I am also informed by my own lineage. As the daughter of a South American mother who emmigrated, I hold a lived awareness of cultural complexity, systemic oppression, and the quiet strengths of diasporic identity. This perspective shapes a trauma-informed, culturally sensitive practice that honors difference and affirms belonging.

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My work is passionately geared toward mending relationship, beginning with the one we hold with ourselves. When we are met with presence, when we are seen and received in our wholeness, the shadowy corners of our being can begin to release their grip. As light reaches those forgotten places and a renewed spark often emerges as resilient, creative, and ready to take root.

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“Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.”
— Abraham Maslow

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