I'm so glad you're here! I am Latina, a child of immigrants, a member of the LGBTQ+ community, a parent, a partner, and have been a client in therapy. I appreciate and admire the courage it took for you to take this step toward choosing you.

My desire is to come to know you and your story as it has been and to be with you as you decide what comes in the next chapter. We were never meant to go through life alone, we are all worthy of feeling loved and seen. I strive to create a therapeutic relationship filled with trust so that you can feel safe in knowing you will never be alone in your healing journey. 

I enjoy working with individuals who would like to come back home to themselves. Those exploring their identity, culture, sexuality, parenthood, and relationship(s), those healing from trauma and shame. Those who seek to know themselves fully and live beyond the assumption of who they should be.

About Me

Credentials & Trainings

I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #149628 in California. My education includes a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of San Francisco, 2016 and a Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Brandman University, 2022. 

  • Certified Brainspotting Practitioner, with specialty trainings in Expansion and Perinatal Issues (Infertility, Medical Terminations, Trauma), 2023. Trainings received were facilitated by Lisa Larson, LMFT, Kelly Larson, LMFT and Jana Glass, LPC, PMH-C. Consultation for Certification with Dr. Nicolette Bautista and Lance Ferris, LMFT.

  • Trained in Polyvagal Informed EMDR through Kase & Co, 2023. Advanced EMDR Trainings in C-PTSD, Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders, and Ego States.

  • Intro to Therapeutic Nature-Based Interventions through Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute, 2023.

  • Certified Grief Educator through David Kessler, 2024.

  • I have received continuing education & training in Birth Trauma and Evidence Based Birth through Dancy Perinatal, 2014-2021.

Prior to therapy, my background includes Early Childhood Education, Autism, Respite Care, Doula, Certified Childbirth Educator, Lactation Educator and co-leader of ICAN of Sacramento, a support group for those who have had cesarean births. 

Office

This is where you can make yourself at home. Take off your shoes, grab the blanket, move the pillows, really whatever helps you and your nervous system settle :)

I have a white noise machine and music in the lobby to enhance your privacy. If the sound of the white noise machine bothers you while we’re in session, let me know and we can have music in the background in the room as well.