About Me
Service is my compass, and I move through the world with a deep passion for love and healing.
I have a Master's in Mental Health Counseling with a concentration in Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology from Naropa University. I am on my way to becoming a Mental Health Counselor with a Limited Permit in NYS. I am also a certified Indigenous Focusing-Oriented Trauma Therapy practitioner and recieved the 200 hour Registered Yoga Teacher training from Mysore, India. My studies have led me to natural medicines and somatic healing modalities. My offerings are an integration of all I have learned.
I am a second-generation immigrant from Quisqueya. I learned in my early 20s that my great grandmothers were the curandera and bruja of their little town. This was a confirmation for me of what I had felt since I was a child. Though their teachings were not passed down directly, I am re-membering their magic in the ways they come through me.
Dominicans have a complexity of identities due to colonization. For that reason I identify as Person of Complexity. From what I’ve pieced together I know that my ancestry is mixed with Taino, West African, Spanish, and Turkish.
Throughout my journey I have listened to this calling from the depths of my gut, gathering my intuitions, gifts, and experiences. I have called it many things before— healer, transformational coach, light being, poet, sacred space holder... all the names are just a pointing to something bigger than me— I am on a path of liberation for all beings, God is my boss. I am led by higher powers-spirit teams and ancestors.
How I Work
When you work with me, I’m not just guiding you with the tools I’ve learned. I’m offering you my nervous system.
My work isn’t to fix it or make your suffering disappear. Even though that’s the impulse and what most of us want, my work is to be with you with a steady nervous system. To sit beside you, feeling you fully without getting lost in the pain. I keep one foot in your pain and one foot out, holding the light and the perspective of what’s on the other side.
In this way we learn to co-regulate and expand your capacity to be with the suffering of life. I teach tools to navigate the ups and downs from an embodied and clear place. We make space for the younger parts that are still carrying trauma and create enough resourcing for them to see they no longer have to run the show. You get to be the adult rooted in the here and now.
And as much as we make space for the pain, we make space for authentic joy. We learn to be present and tell all your parts, “I see you. What do you need?” I guide you in slowing down so we can listen for the medicine and wisdom inside you.
So many of our wounds and ruptures come from emotionally immature or dysregulated parents, or from relationships with people who couldn’t hold our tender parts. Healing comes from experiencing something different. From being in connection with someone consistent and loving. From learning what it’s like to fall apart and have someone stay steady with you.
From there, your nervous system starts to learn on its own. It realizes, Oh, I can go there — to the big sad, the big secret, the memory that feels like I’ll explode if I let myself feel it. We learn to go there together. Slowly, gently, and at your pace. And over time, you learn how to go there by yourself. Your nervous system learns how to hold the pain without collapsing.
If you feel called to experience this kind of support, I invite you to schedule a free consultation for Indigenous Body-Centered Mindfulness Therapy. Let’s see what healing can unfold together.