Hola! I am a licensed marriage and family therapist (LMFT) based in California and Colorado. I have been practicing for 6 years. I provide services to every individual and couple who wants to break the cycle of abuse, maladaptive patterns, and emotional turmoil, and partners/couples who are ready to find a way to each other again and strengthening the positive parts of them that brought them together in the first place. I am a mother, a wife, an artist, and a singer and hopefully your therapist. I hope you and I can start working towards your goals. NOTE: In my practice, I only do couples/family therapy for self-pay at $180. However, I do offer a sliding scale.
During our first session together, we spend time getting to know each other and know what you are going through to help you create a treatment plan that best serve your needs and goals.
I am patient, I meet you where you are at, I challenged when appropriate, I am with you. WITH YOU. When appropriate, I like to sprinkle some humor. When you are in session with me, you and our therapeutic relationship is the most important person and you have my full attention.
I love working with the Latinx/Latine/Latino population, and I also love working with anyone with other cultural backgrounds. As a Latina myself, I want to help destigmatize and decolonize mental health for BIPOC communities. I treat anxiety, depression, hoarding, and trauma in adult individuals. am passionate about working with relationships and marriages and using your strengths as a couple to build skills that may create a more meaningful and healthy relationship. I love working with couples and individuals who are invested in their treatment. I treat couples with various experiences such as infidelity, betrayal trauma, generational trauma, depression, anxiety, and emotional disconnection. I will soon be offering Discernment Counseling for couples who are contemplating divorce.
In working with individual clients and couples, first I look at the whole picture of the issue that brought you to therapy while meeting you where you are at in your healing process. I will identify what the best practice and interventions that meet your needs are. I am constantly updating my knowledge on the up to date research about interventions that often work! I primarily utilize a systemic and humanistic view which allow me to better understand your world from the inside out and help us create a balance within. Remember, our behaviors are learned! And I am here to help you break the unhelpful cycles and make history for yourself, your family, and future generations! In my work with couples, I help partners to replace negative conflict patterns with positive interactions and attempt to repair what hurt the relationship in the past. I also help with increasing friendship between partners as well as taming the horses: criticism, defensiveness, contempt, and stonewalling. The ultimate goal is to teach you how to resolve your conflict at home on your own!