Therapy That Strives To Understand Your Unique Experience
About Me
I’m a queer, Latinx therapist with postgraduate training in trauma and psychodynamic psychotherapy. I hold a New York license and provide psychotherapy both virtually and in-person out of my office in Lower Manhattan. My practice focuses on helping people of all identities to build stronger connection with their authentic selves. Together we can work to slow down, listen inward, and discover vital self-understanding.
My Approach
Therapy is meant to be a safe space for people to begin unburdening themselves in the presence of a someone who is attuned, honest, and listening with compassion. I try to be as authentic possible, so that my clients feel comfortable doing the same. My goal is to have a real, in-the-moment experience—where clients have full permission to show up exactly as they are. We all deserve a deep and meaningful relationship with ourselves, and it is my privilege to sit alongside my clients as they do this life-altering work. Clients of all identities and lifestyles are warmly welcome into my practice.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Psychodynamic work pays special attention to how past experiences might be influencing current life and relationships. The client-clinician relationship is used as a guide for understanding patterns of relating and practicing new, more adaptive ways of being in connection.
Trauma-Informed Psychotherapy
Traumatic experiences can alter the way we interact with our world and ourselves. By reframing “symptoms” as inevitable adaptations that once served an important purpose—but may now be making life more challenging—clients can begin to build self-compassion and orient toward change.
Trauma work has a psychoeducational component and emphasizes skills for self-soothing and grounding. It can also incorporate somatic work and processing modalities such as EMDR.
Beyond Talk Therapy
In addition talk therapy, I help clients access and heal deeply-stored traumatic wounds by combining bilateral stimulation with somatic and parts work (Internal Family systems).
This small machine known as “tappers” gets the left and right hemisphere of the brain in communication with one another by sending gentle alternating vibrations through your hands. With the brain “lit up”, we have the opportunity to revisit, reprocess, and desensitize traumatic memory living unintegrated in the body and mind.
Virtual & In-Person Therapy
139 Fulton Street
New York, New York
Accessible by the 2, 3, 4, 5, A, C, E, J, N, R, W, Z, and Path Trains
Let’s Work Together
With seemingly endless options for therapists, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the pressure to find the “perfect match.” I also understand the thought of opening up can be intimidating. I support clients in moving as slowly as their most vulnerable parts need them to.
If you are curious about working together, I am happy to provide a free 15-minute phone consultation. If things feel good from there, we can schedule a full, 50-minute session. Fit is important and I honor client’s instincts about what feels right for them. Our guts are often wiser than we give them credit for!