I welcome people from all walks of life—including all races, ethnicities, genders, gender identities, sexual-orientations, neurological and physical abilities, worldviews, religions, and ages—to begin their healing journey. I understand that I can never fully know what it is like to navigate the world from a position different than my own, but I try to approach my clients with deep curiosity for how their unique experiences, communities, and spaces that you’ve occupied inform where you’re at today.

My passion to help people heal began with working at a non-profit mentorship program for at-risk adolescents. When I saw that my desire to help couldn’t reach the depths I wanted, I began to look for additional tools. This search led me to complete a master’s degree in professional counseling in 2016. After graduation, my search continued, leading me to seek certification in EMDR, and becoming a board approved supervisor for LPC and LPCC candidates in Minnesota.

While I have a degree in counseling, when it comes to your experiences, culture, values, needs, and perspectives, you are the expert. Together we can find what is safe, true, and important to you. My therapeutic orientation is first of all relational, culturally responsive, strengths-based, and trauma-focused. I draw heavily from attachment theory, feminist theory, use EMDR and Sand Tray therapy, and will at times draw from CBT and DBT-based interventions. My desire is to help clients untangle the messages and events from their past that are affecting them in the present.

I have experience working with trauma, mood-related diagnoses (depression, anxiety, adjustment-related stress), dissociation, bipolar, Obsessions and compulsions, adoption, life transitions (I have a special interest in supporting career changes), and grief.

I was raised in Bogota, Colombia, and Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic. As a white person living overseas, I attended Spanish-speaking schools, learned about history through a non-white lens, was exposed to the atrocities of colonialism, and witnessed in very concrete ways the position of privilege from which I experienced all of this.

In my free time, I enjoy cooking for my friends and family, training and competing in the sport of dog agility, painting, and spending time in nature.