Thank you for your interest!

I started in the behavioral health and wellness field in 2000. Over the years, I’ve served as a Spanish/Spanglish speaking counselor, case manager, and therapist in a few settings - residential facilities, clinics, and schools. I’ve supported folks of all ages, navigating various factors - healing from trauma, managing chronic illness, understanding the power and range of emotions, exploring relational dynamics, reconnecting with self - with the knowing that the systems that we are a part of directly inform our thought, behavior, and more importantly how they can often limit our internal capacity and strengths. It was during my direct-service work as a school-based therapist, working with Black, Indigenous, and Youth of Color, that I began looking much more closely at the systems that are created to support our wellness and healing.

The shift to include systems work.  The work for me is at the intersection - one must regularly inform the other, with intentional responsiveness and consistent centering of folks who are receiving services AND those that are providing the service.  For individuals and communities, especially those furthest from opportunity, to receive services that are equitable and responsive to real self/community-identified needs, the system from which they are supported must do so with genuine integrity.