I am an Associate Marriage and Family Therapist with a master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles.

I began my clinical training at Didi Hirsh — Via Avanta where I worked with women struggling with substance use, domestic violence, and poverty. After that, I continued my training at The Saturday Center in Santa Monica where we focused on providing the quality psychotherapy to the community at affordable fees and in a private practice setting. In both settings, my work focused on building a relationship with the unconscious material within each client in order to help facilitate expansion and agency in their lives. I am currently volunteering at a teen-to-teen national hotline and I am teaching mindfulness curriculum at the local high schools, as well as growing my private practice in Pasadena.

My psychodynamic approach is rooted in depth-psychology with a focus on helping others cultivate awareness within themselves. I aim to encourage and challenge clients to meet themselves throughout their work with kindness, love, curiosity, and devotion to self and treatment. I offer a compassionate, integrative approach to healing that blends therapeutic techniques such as inner child work with the goal of helping clients reconnect with and integrate all parts of themselves. Rooted in a commitment to lifelong growth, I invite my clients to join me on a journey toward deeper self-understanding and compassion—for themselves and others. To support this work, I’ve pursued advanced training in Brainspotting, a powerful modality for somatic and trauma-informed healing.

I currently welcome in-person and remote sessions with adults, teenagers, couples, and families with an office in Pasadena. I am also fluent in Spanish (hablo español). As a first-generation Mexican-American and proud member of the Latinx community, I welcome working with clients interested in navigating their relationship to cultural and ethnic identity. I am LGBTQIA+ affirmative and welcome all clients of diverse gender, ethnic/cultural and sexual identities.