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ABOUT
ABOUT ME
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My orientation to counseling is informed by paradigms of change and healing that I have been immersed in for many years, including Vipassana meditation in the tradition of S.N. Goenka and Sayagyi U Ba Khin, mutual accompaniment, depth psychologies (the unconscious), yoga, mind-matter-body connection and the somatic phenomenon of trauma, DBT, ancestral and intergenerational legacies, Mexican Indigenous and African Indigenous spiritualities, social psychoanalysis and liberation arts.

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My counseling work is also deeply informed by all of my clients over the years who have taught me through their suffering and healing, what works, what doesn't and how I may best accompany my clients.

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EDUCATION & LICENSE

  • Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria:  Ph.D. (c) in Depth Psychologies, Specialization in Community, Indigenous, Liberation & Eco Psychologies

  • Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, MA in Depth Psychologies, Specialization in Community, Indigenous, Liberation and Eco Psychologies

  • Alliant International University, Mexico City: MA in Counseling Psychology, Latin American Family Issues

  • University of Washington, Seattle: BA in Psychology; BA in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies

  • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, Texas #202168

COUNSELING SPECIALIZATIONS 

  • Autistic Adults; Loved Ones of Autistic Folx

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  • Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)

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  • Narcissistic and Other Relational Abuses  (i.e. Societal, Legal, Familial, Religious, Partner/Ex-Partner)​​

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  • Gender, Sexuality & Sexual Orientation​​​

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  • Relationships, and Family-of-Origin 

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  • Trauma (ancestral, bodily, in the psyche, collective)

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  • Latin American Family Issues

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COMMUNITY & COUNSELING WORK

I have worked in social services and counseling for 23 years in Austin, Houston, Seattle and Mexico City. My work has focused on being with people in their struggles and celebrations, and in their contradictions and integrations with social & cultural identities; body politics; gender, sexuality and sexual orientation; and with individual and collective trauma. This includes communities, groups and individuals, families and partnerships.

Some populations include: people with a desire for deep healing from trauma in their family of origin or ancestral lineages; domestic violence survivors; immigrant families and individuals; autistic adults; transgender folx; survivors of sexual trauma; survivors of structural violence; and survivors of gaslighting abuse.
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