It can be difficult to find the words when emotions feel overwhelming—when panic rises, tears surface without warning, or silence feels safer than speaking your truth. If you’ve struggled to express what’s happening inside because it feels too heavy, too complicated, or too vulnerable, I want you to know you’re not alone. I support teens, young adults, BIPOC individuals, LGBTQIA+ clients, and anyone navigating the layered intersections of identity, culture, family dynamics, trauma, and emotional overwhelm. I specialize in working with the Hispanic and Latinx community traverse the complexities of culture, generational trauma, and finding autonomy as an adult. My work is centered on helping you make sense of your internal world and reconnect with the parts of yourself that may have been silenced, minimized, or misunderstood.

Family & Generational Trauma Therapy (Culturally Responsive Care)

Many clients come to therapy carrying patterns they never chose—patterns shaped by cultural expectations, family roles, codependency, obligation, perfectionism, or emotional caretaking. These generational patterns can lead to anxiety, depression, burnout, shame, or difficulty feeling authentic in relationships. Together, we explore the origins of these dynamics, how they’re affecting your present, and how you can move toward autonomy, emotional freedom, and healthier relational patterns. Healing family trauma is not about abandoning your roots; it’s about honoring where you come from while finally creating space to become who you are.

I specialize in helping clients manage anxiety, depression, relationship issues, identity exploration, family system dynamics, emotional dysregulation, and the unique challenges that come with early adulthood and transitioning into adulthood. Many of the people I work with are learning to let go of survival-based patterns, acknowledge their unspoken wounds, discover their needs, address relationship/familial challenges, and build healthier internal and realistic boundaries. Together, we explore these experiences with compassion and curiosity, allowing you to untangle what has been difficult to carry and begin rebuilding a sense of clarity inner alignment.

My Approach to Therapy

My therapeutic style is collaborative, trauma-informed, culturally attuned, and deeply relational. I draw from DBT, CBT, ACT, somatic awareness, and IFS awareness using evidence-based tools to help you regulate and verbalize your emotions. Therapy with me is not about becoming “better” in someone else’s eyes—it is about becoming more you: more grounded, more aware, more empowered, and more emotionally resilient. I believe meaningful healing happens when you feel safe enough to tell and face the truth—first to yourself and then within a therapeutic relationship where you’re ready to face your challenge.

Above all, therapy with me is a warm, validating, and culturally responsive experience. Your identities, lived experiences, and emotional realities are honored and taken seriously. My goal is to help you build self-trust, regulate your emotions, and create a life that feels intentional, grounded, and authentically yours. If you're looking for a therapist who understands the complexity of cultural identity, family expectations, and the emotional weight you’ve been holding, it would be my honor to walk alongside you.

Experience

What does being a “trauma-focused therapist” mean? It means that I work with you to recognize and process how traumatic experiences throughout your life have impacted your mental, emotional, behavioral, physical, and spiritual well-being. This is rooted in the understanding of how these traumatic experiences have forged and influenced our emotional and behavioral responses. Our goal is to create healthier responses and relationships towards ourselves. I understand the shame and confusion that occurs when you experience such symptoms with zero guidance or support to help ease them. 

Utilizing strengths-based methods, I work with clients to explore their inner child, inner teenager, and emerging adult to give space and speak to these traumas that we were never allowed or felt safe enough to do. Perhaps you have felt that quiet pressure from the cultural/tradition of the household that are “expected to move on, and be the bigger person.” As the second oldest/middle child of Puerto Rican parents, I have the awareness and empathetic understanding of the impact of the Silent Rules, Silent Expectations, and pressure to please your elders at the cost of your autonomy. This creates a co-dependency behavior with not only the family but with other relationships in our lives to maintain the identity our culture/family has created. 

My experience is geared towards emerging and young adults who are BIPOC-LGBTQ+ and ranges from anxiety/depression to navigating relationships, family dynamics, life transitions/life changes, and codependency. As a strengths-based therapist, I utilize Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Shadow Work. My goals with my clients are to create a space where we can feel safe to verbalize our emotions and develop skills to both manage our emotions as well as feel and name them. During our time together, we will strive to interrupt generation trauma, unhealthy behaviors, and patterns, find autonomy in ourselves as the “adult-child” of a Black or Brown parent, relationship exploration, and codependency/cultural codependency experiences. 

Licensure

As a Clinical Fellow, I am gaining the necessary experience and supervision to obtain my clinical license (LCPC). I am working under the supervision of Andrea Espinosa.