Services
- Individual
About My Clients
Clients can feel complicated emotions about seeking counseling. Shame for needing it. Weakness for not being able to just move on. All adding to the stress, depression and anxiety. But true strength comes from recognizing the need for help and asking for it. This is not admitting that you are crazy, weak or something to be ashamed of. There are ways to take back control of your life. You don't have to do this alone. I will be here to guide you. And at your own pace, take the next steps.
My Background and Approach
Five years into my career, I provide bilingual counseling to people of diverse backgrounds as they seek to manage stressors and heal from experiences of trauma, sexual violence, domestic violence, life transitions, and burnout. My passions include supporting first and second-generation individuals and recent immigrants with intergenerational traumas, cultural + identity conflicts due to assimilation, and experiences of marginalization. My therapy approaches include relational therapy and person centered, where my client and I collaborate on their goals and best ways to reach them. Other tools for healing I am trained in are EMDR, Cognitive Processing Therapy, and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. I also use biopsychosocial models, somatic and holistic approaches.
My Personal Beliefs and Interests
I provide inclusive therapy through the lens of decolonizing counseling practices. In counseling, I make efforts to disrupt harmful beliefs and create room to heal from the impact of systemic violence and injustices. Counseling is for everybody. It is for you too. My goal is to collaborate with clients to reclaim their lives through talk and connection along with finding therapy approaches that complement the ancestral ways of healing. Counseling is not the cure to everything. Doing the work, in and outside of sessions, can be hard. And still, many clients tell me they wish they would have started counseling sooner. Because after each session they feel better. They feel lighter. And free of the weight on their backs they thought was theirs to hold alone. You deserve this too. What more do you have to lose? You are already here, let’s get started. If we aren’t a good fit, that’s okay, I’ll help you find someone who is.