(he/him)
I’m a Licensed Clinical Social Worker who works with adults and mature teens navigating stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, burnout, and major life transitions. Many of the people I work with are thoughtful, capable individuals who appear to be functioning well on the outside while internally feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, stuck, or unsure why life no longer feels like theirs. My approach is practical, collaborative, and grounded. Therapy is a space to slow down, think more clearly, and better understand the patterns driving stress, overthinking, emotional disconnection, and relationship struggles. Together, we work toward meaningful changes that feel sustainable in everyday life. I use structured, evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT, DBT, mindfulness-based strategies, and attachment-focused work to help clients respond more effectively to stress, relationships, and internal pressure. Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 20 years in leadership and project-based roles across multiple industries and cultures, including over a decade working throughout Latin America. I speak Spanish fluently, and that experience continues to shape how I connect with clients navigating pressure, responsibility, identity shifts, and relationship stress. My goal is to help you feel more steady, self-aware, confident, and connected in your everyday life and relationships.
The first session is an opportunity for us to slow things down and begin making sense of what has been weighing on you. We’ll talk about what brought you to therapy, what feels most difficult right now, and what you would like to feel different moving forward. You do not need to have everything figured out before starting. My approach is conversational, collaborative, and grounded. I’ll ask thoughtful questions to better understand your experiences, relationships, stressors, strengths, and the patterns that may be keeping you stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or hard on yourself. Many clients describe feeling relieved simply having a space where they do not need to perform, explain everything perfectly, or carry things alone for a while. We will also begin discussing what you want from therapy and what kinds of changes would feel meaningful and realistic in your life. Depending on your needs, that may involve developing practical coping tools, improving communication and relationships, reducing anxiety or burnout, processing deeper emotional patterns, or building more clarity, steadiness, and confidence in day-to-day life. The first session is less about pressure or immediate solutions and more about building connection, understanding, and a clear direction for the work ahead.
One of my greatest strengths as a therapist is creating a space that feels both grounded and genuinely useful. Clients often tell me they feel comfortable opening up with me while also appreciating that sessions have direction, depth, and practical value. I aim to create an environment where you can slow down, think clearly, and work through difficult experiences without feeling judged, rushed, or overwhelmed. My approach balances insight with action. I help clients better understand the patterns behind their stress, overthinking, emotional disconnection, relationship struggles, and internal pressure while also developing practical tools that support meaningful change in everyday life. Therapy should not feel like endless processing without movement, nor should it feel overly clinical or formulaic. I use evidence-based approaches including CBT, ACT, DBT, mindfulness, and attachment-focused work depending on each client’s needs and goals. Rather than relying on a one-size-fits-all approach, I tailor therapy to the individual and the specific challenges they are facing. Many of the clients who work well with me are thoughtful, capable people who are used to carrying a great deal internally while continuing to function well externally. They often want more than symptom reduction alone. They want greater clarity, steadiness, emotional insight, stronger relationships, and a deeper understanding of themselves and the patterns shaping their lives. Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 20 years in leadership and project-based roles across multiple industries and cultures, including over a decade working throughout Latin America. That broader life experience continues to shape how I connect with clients navigating pressure, responsibility, burnout, identity shifts, and relationship stress in both personal and professional life.
I work best with adults and mature teens who feel overwhelmed, emotionally stuck, disconnected, or under constant pressure despite appearing capable and functional on the outside. Many of my clients are thoughtful, self-aware people struggling with overthinking, stress, anxiety, burnout, self-criticism, relationship difficulties, or the growing sense that something in life no longer feels sustainable or aligned. I frequently work with clients navigating anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationship conflict, work-related stress, identity shifts, emotional exhaustion, and questions around purpose, direction, or connection. Some come in with a clear idea of what they want help with, while others simply know they are tired of carrying everything alone and want space to better understand themselves and what needs to change. My approach tends to resonate with people who want therapy that feels both grounded and genuinely useful. Many are looking not only for symptom relief, but also for greater clarity, emotional steadiness, stronger relationships, healthier coping patterns, and a deeper understanding of themselves and the patterns shaping their lives. I work especially well with clients who value insight, honesty, collaboration, and practical growth over quick fixes or surface-level conversations.
Other specialties
I identify as
Cognitive Behavioral (CBT)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is one of the core approaches I use to help clients navigate stress, anxiety, burnout, relationship challenges, and major life transitions. CBT helps people better understand the connection between their thoughts, emotions, behaviors, and stress responses so they can begin changing patterns that keep them feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected, or overly self-critical. In our work together, we may explore recurring thought patterns, emotional reactions, and habits that no longer serve you while developing practical tools that support clearer thinking, emotional balance, confidence, and more effective day-to-day coping. My approach to CBT is collaborative, grounded, and tailored to the individual rather than rigid or overly formulaic. The goal is not simply to “think positively,” but to respond to yourself and your life with greater awareness, flexibility, and steadiness.
Psychodynamic
Psychodynamic Therapy helps clients better understand the deeper emotional patterns shaping how they relate to themselves, other people, and the world around them. I use this approach to explore how earlier experiences, relationship dynamics, attachment patterns, and longstanding beliefs may continue to influence present-day emotions, reactions, and behaviors, often outside of conscious awareness. In practice, this may involve identifying recurring relationship themes, understanding emotional triggers, exploring internal conflicts, or noticing patterns that repeatedly lead to stress, disconnection, self-criticism, or frustration. The goal is not to endlessly analyze the past, but to develop greater self-awareness and clarity about why certain experiences feel difficult or familiar. As clients gain insight into these patterns, they are often able to respond to themselves and others with greater flexibility, steadiness, intention, and self-understanding rather than feeling stuck in automatic reactions that no longer serve them.
Acceptance and commitment (ACT)
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people develop a healthier relationship with difficult thoughts, emotions, and internal experiences rather than getting stuck fighting, avoiding, or over-identifying with them. I often use ACT with clients navigating stress, anxiety, burnout, overthinking, self-criticism, and relationship challenges. ACT focuses on building psychological flexibility, the ability to respond to life with greater awareness, steadiness, and intention even when things feel difficult or uncertain. In practice, this may involve learning how to step back from unhelpful thought patterns, become more present and grounded, clarify personal values, and make choices that better align with the life and relationships you want to build. The goal is not to eliminate uncomfortable emotions altogether, but to help you move through them with greater clarity, flexibility, confidence, and self-understanding rather than feeling controlled by them.
Dialectical Behavior (DBT)
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) helps people build practical skills for managing stress, emotional overwhelm, relationship conflict, and difficult reactions more effectively. I often use DBT-informed approaches with clients who feel emotionally exhausted, stuck in cycles of overthinking, hard on themselves, or overwhelmed by the pressures and demands of everyday life. DBT focuses on strengthening emotional awareness, distress tolerance, communication skills, and the ability to respond thoughtfully rather than react automatically under stress. In practice, this may involve learning ways to regulate emotions, navigate conflict more effectively, improve boundaries, and stay grounded during difficult moments or conversations. The goal is not to suppress emotions, but to develop greater steadiness, flexibility, and confidence in how you respond to yourself, your relationships, and the challenges you face day to day.