"Times are urgent, we must go slow."

-Bayo Akomolafe

ABOUT ME

I am cisgender, was born in Houston and raised in San Marcos, TX. I come from a Southern, poor and working class family of Ashkenazi Jews. My privileged education, training and experience give me the "know-how" in creating a dialogue of possibilities. However, you are the expert on you and your life. I welcome all people and worldviews to stigma-free counseling-LGBTQIA+, immigrants, quien habla español, neurodivegent; all faiths, nationalities, cultures and bodies. I am part of an international community of activists, mental health professionals, educators, dialogue practitioners and scholars who inform and influence my work. I stay in practice with people and the world around me. 

My worldview aligns with Depth Psychology, Post-Humanism, Liberation & Decolonizing Psychologies, Critical Race Theory, Radical Feminisms, Social Psychoanalysis and Latin American-Indigenous Ontologies. Please feel free to ask me about any or all of these. 

COUNSELING SPECIALTIES

• Gender & Sexuality

• Gender-Based Violence 

• Latin American Family Issues

• Quien Habla Español

• Sex Work Industries

• Relationships, Family-of-Origin

• Trauma

• Stress, Mood, Irritability, Worry

• Withdrawal/Tapering from Psychiatric Medications

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• Colonialism and Decoloniality

  • Capitalism, Class Struggles, Economic Oppression

  • Forced Acculturation, Assimilation

  • Identity & Body Politics (i.e. Race, White Supremacy, Patriarchy)

  • Survivance-a way of life that nourishes Indigenous ways of knowing

EDUCATION

• Pacifica Graduate Institute, Santa Barbara, CA:  PhD Student of Depth Psychology-Community, Indigenous, Liberation & 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

COMMUNITY AND PARTICIPATORY WORK

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I have worked in social services and counseling for 22 years in Austin, Houston, Seattle and Mexico City. Some organizations where I have worked are Lifeworks, Salvation Army (Tepito), Family Crisis Center, Presbyterian Children's Homes & Services, Family Violence Center, Austin Child Guidance Center and Phoenix Academy.  My work has focused on economically oppressed and marginalized populations; social & cultural identity; body politics; gender and sexuality; family issues and couples issues; people who experience disruptions in life due to stress, worry, mood, self-harm, suicidal ideation; survivors of sexual trauma; domestic violence survivors; immigrant families and survivors of structural violence.