Compassionate therapy for life, love, loss, and liberation…

All of you is welcome here.

Perhaps you're looking for a place, a space, where you can talk with someone who will listen without judgment, without critique, someone who’ll listen with care, and create a sacred space, with their compassionate attention on you….

I've worked with a range of people, from a variety of backgrounds and walks of life...

Some people have concerns, problems, issues, frustrations, fixations, ideas, thoughts, feelings and ways of life that no longer work for them. They might struggle with being in their own skin, or are trying to figure out who they are after adverse and challenging experiences. Some people struggle with dark secrets that they've carried for years and finally want to open up and let them go, while others might be figuring out how to "pick up the pieces" and decide which way is next.

There have been many events over the last few years that have left so many people feeling a lot of different feelings.. hurt, wounded, sick, confused, angry, sad, grief stricken, just to name a few…

“The wound is the place where the light enters you…”

Rumi

Whatever might be happening in your world, I'm glad you're seeking support. I’m here to walk with you to find the calm, peace of mind, the healing, or the clarity, direction, and hopefulness you might be seeking.

​You might just be ready for change, and wanting to bring more love and compassion into your life.

Let your wound be the place where the light enters you....

How I started…

I've been exploring the fields of holistic health, integrative medicine, complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), wellness, and the mind-body for more than 25 years. My interest and curiosity in psychology, mythology, and spirituality began well before that.

I’ve lived abroad as a Fulbright Fellow, exploring race, culture, identity and womanhood along a region of Oaxaca, Mexico know as la Costa Chica, the “small coast”. I've also traveled large parts of Mexico, Central America, across the US, and across the Atlantic to North Africa, always curious and exploring what life was like for other women and people, young and old.

I've grappled with serious challenges in my own life - physical, spiritual, and emotional ones. Some of those challenges had me at the brink, needing to decide what I really wanted out of life if I were to survive. Luckily, I survived, and remain grateful that I did. From that moment on, I made the commitment to live a full life everyday possible. And as is with life, tragedy struck again years later, and it forced me to recommit to my life, and to myself. I had reached a point where I set the intention of having compassion, self love, and gratitude at the center of everything I did, and touched.

I set my heart on this path, to companion others through life's struggles, trauma, adversity, tragedy, darkness, and the challenges that can arise, while holding the beauty, joy, peace, calm, contentment, and the neutral spaces in life. I sit with people, exploring what it feels like to hold everything.

​I’ve created this healing space as an homage to all women, my fellow latinx/mexicanas/chicanas, women of color, and women from all walks of life—to focus on offering nourishment to their selves, their souls, and spirits. I create space for those moments..the ones where you feel you might not survive the darkness, or the grief, or pain. I create space with the hope that everyone who sits in that space, may come to realize that caring for themselves is a political act, an emotional act, a physical act, and a radical act…. I create space holding the notion that caring for yourself is not just for preservation, but so that you may thrive and prosper…

We want to acknowledge the keepers and stewards of the land where I was born, practice, serve, and live on are the Chumash, Tongva, Fernandeño Tatviam, and Kizh. Offering gratitude and respect to the first nations and indigenous peoples and their elders who have kept this land, and continue to be its stewards…