'I'm a bisexual, Latina, biracial woman, former professional dancer, and licensed therapist (licensed clinical social worker, to be exact!). As a dancer and choreographer, I spent the first decade of my adult life developing expertise in a somatic, relational art form. I learned firsthand what it means to live in your body — and what it costs when you habitually silence and abandon it. Both as a dancer and as a person, I've spent years learning the difference between performing for survival and moving from inner truth. That distinction is the foundation of everything I do in the therapy room.

My body knows the specific exhaustion of shape-shifting to belong. Growing up as one of the only Latinx students in a mostly white school system, taking on the peacemaker role as the eldest daughter, contorting my body to fit ballet's Eurocentric standards through restriction and overexercising — I learned early to edit my experience to make it more palatable for others. Switching careers was the first time I chose myself. Learning to stop performing and start listening to my own body's cues has been the most grounding, clarifying work of my life. It's also what I now do with clients every day.

I work somatically and relationally — meaning we use what happens in your body, and between us in the room, as the primary data. I'll guide you in relearning your inner cues, making sense of old survival strategies, and reconnecting to the part of you that already knows how to stay grounded, courageous, and clear about who you are and what matters.