Specialty Areas
Therapy is not one-size-fits-all. I offer evidence-based, culturally responsive care tailored to each client’s needs, strengths, and lived experiences. Explore the areas below to learn more about the concerns I commonly support and the clients I work with:
Depression & Mood Disorders
Depression does not always look like crying all the time. Sometimes it looks like going through the motions, feeling exhausted, withdrawing, feeling irritable, or struggling to enjoy things that used to feel meaningful. You may be showing up for others while quietly feeling heavy, stuck, or unlike yourself.
In therapy, I make space to understand what you’re experiencing without judgment or pressure to “just be positive.” Together, we explore your thoughts, emotions, relationships, routines, stressors, and the patterns that may be keeping you feeling stuck.
I use a warm, collaborative approach drawing from CBT, ACT, mindfulness, self-compassion, and values-based work. My hope is to help you feel less alone, reconnect with what matters to you, and take small, realistic steps toward more steadiness, connection, and hope.
Anxiety, Perfectionism, and Self-Worth
Supportive therapy for anxiety, overthinking, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and feeling like you are never quite doing enough.
Do you feel like your mind is always running? Replaying conversations. Worrying about disappointing someone. Feeling like one mistake says something much bigger about who you are.
Maybe you are the person who looks like they have it together on the outside (you’re responsible, dependable, capable) while inside feeling tense, guilty, or quietly not enough. You may have learned to keep going even when your body and mind are asking you to stop.
In therapy, we practice slowing down and use curiosity to understand the patterns keeping anxiety and perfectionism in place. This might include exploring your thoughts, emotions, and body. Many people I work with have tied their value to what they produce, how much they help others, how well they perform, or how little they inconvenience people. Therapy is a space to gently examine that; without judgment, and without pressure to be different than you are right now.
I use a warm, collaborative approach drawing on CBT, mindfulness, self-compassion, and values-based work. Mindfulness, in particular, is not about clearing your mind or feeling calm, it’s about learning to observe your experience with more openness. It can help you respond to yourself the way you might respond to someone you actually care about.
In our work together, my hope is to help you build more flexibility, more self-trust, and a relationship with yourself that is not only built on performance.
Eating Disorders and Body Image Concerns
Compassionate, evidence-based therapy for eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns.
Have you noticed that food, body image, weight, exercise, or “eating healthy” has started taking up more space in your mind than you want it to?
Do you feel like your relationship with food is getting in the way of your life, your mood, your friendships, your schoolwork, or your ability to be present?
Maybe college or a major life transition has brought certain patterns to the surface. For many people, a new environment, increased independence, academic pressure, social comparison, stress, and changes in routine can unmask eating concerns that may have been easier to manage before. What may have started as “trying to be healthier,” feeling out of control with food, avoiding certain foods, or wanting to feel more confident in your body can slowly begin to take attention away from the things that matter most, like studying, friendships, family, rest, going out, and actually living your life.
I work with children, teens, and adults navigating eating disorders, disordered eating, and body image concerns, including:
Anorexia Nervosa
Bulimia NervosaAvoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)
Other Specified Feeding or Eating Disorder (OSFED)
Body image concerns and food-related anxiety
For children:
When eating concerns show up in children, they may not always look like a “typical” eating disorder. Children sometimes avoid certain foods because of texture, smell, taste, fear of choking or vomiting, low appetite, anxiety, sensory sensitivities, rigidity, or feeling overwhelmed by mealtimes. Other times, children may begin making comments about their body, comparing themselves to others, becoming more selective with food, or showing distress around eating.
In therapy, I work to understand what may be underneath the eating concern rather than blaming the child or assuming they are “just being picky.” My approach is warm, developmentally appropriate, and family-centered. I support children in building more awareness of their body, emotions, fears, and needs while also helping parents respond with structure, compassion, and realistic tools.
Because children’s eating concerns can affect growth, nutrition, development, and emotional well-being, I value collaboration with caregivers, dietitians, pediatricians, and other medical professionals when needed. My goal is to help children feel safer and more supported around food, while helping families reduce shame, power struggles, and confusion around eating.
For teens and adults:
What may have started as “trying to be healthier,” avoiding certain foods, exercising more, or wanting to feel more confident in your body can slowly begin to take attention away from the things that matter most, like friendships, family, studying, your career, rest, dating, culture, and actually living your life.
Body image concerns can also show up as we age, become mothers, experience stress, recover from illness, change routines, or move through different seasons of life. There is often a specific moment attached: a wedding, a postpartum body that feels unfamiliar, pressure to lose "baby weight," a comment someone made, or a photo that sent you spiraling. You may feel pressure to return to an earlier version of yourself, or to maintain a body that no longer feels realistic or sustainable.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and grounded in evidence-based care. I use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Eating Disorders, or CBT-ED, along with mindfulness-informed, exposure-based, and skills-based interventions when appropriate. Therapy may include understanding patterns, and the role food or body image may be playing in your life.
Cultural, Ethnic, and First-Generation Identity
Therapy that holds space for who you are, where you come from, and everything in between.
I was born in Mexico, but my early life was shaped by living out of my home country. Because of my lived experiences, I know what it’s like to navigate between cultures, languages, expectations, and different versions of yourself.
Our culture and family histories shape so much of who we are. They shape how we communicate, how we understand emotions, how we care for others, how we think about success, and how we decide what we are allowed to need.
Maybe you have felt pressure to succeed because of what your family sacrificed. Maybe you’re the one who figures things out first, fills out the forms, asks the questions, makes the appointments, explains the system, or carries responsibilities that others may not see. You love your family deeply and still feel tired, guilty, misunderstood, or unsure of where your own needs fit.
In our work together, we might explore how family expectations, cultural identity, language, immigration history, and generational experiences have shaped the way you see yourself and move through the world. This may also include processing experiences of discrimination, internalized messages about your worth, and the pressure to define yourself around what everyone else needs you to be. My approach is grounded in cultural humility, which means I am not here to assume I know your experience, but to understand your story with care, curiosity, and respect.
Latine and Spanish-SpeakERS
Therapy in English or Spanish for Latinx clients and families.
From an early age, my mom emphasized the importance of speaking and practicing Spanish. At the time, I did not always understand why it mattered so much, especially if I lived in a place where Spanish was not the dominant language. Now, I am deeply grateful to mi mami for the reminders to stay connected to our mother tongue.
Spanish is more than words. It carries culture, family stories, emotion, humor, grief, love, and ways of understanding the world that do not always translate perfectly into English. Have you ever seen Shrek in Spanish? Exactly.
For many Latine clients and families, being able to speak in your primary language can make therapy feel more natural, more personal, and more emotionally honest. There are some things that just feel differently in Spanish: the family dynamics, the dichos, the cariño, the guilt, the humor, the “no pasa nada” when clearly sí pasa algo.
I offer therapy and psychological services in both English and Spanish. My hope is to create a space where you do not have to translate yourself before being understood. Whether we are discussing family dynamics, identity, anxiety, parenting, neurodivergence, eating concerns, relationships, or life transitions, I want language and culture to be part of the care, not barriers to it.
I especially value working with Latine individuals and families who are navigating generational differences, family expectations, cultural values, immigration experiences, code-switching, and the complicated balance of honoring where you come from while also making space for who you are becoming.
My approach is warm, respectful, and culturally responsive. I want to offer my skills in your first language, when that feels most comfortable for you, and to provide therapy where your culture, language, and lived experience are seen as central parts of the full picture.
Physicians, Healthcare Workers, and Helping Professionals
When your work involves caring for others, it can be hard to know where your needs fit.
Burnout does not always look like completely falling apart. Sometimes it looks like taking longer to finish notes, studying feeling more exhausting than usual, making mistakes you would not normally make, feeling more irritable or emotionally numb, or dreading work you once dreamt of doing.
When you spend your day making space for patients, clients, students, or families, it can feel harder to make space for your own loved ones. You may notice that you no longer have the energy to connect, listen, respond, or be present with your family and friends in the way you want to.
In therapy, we explore burnout, perfectionism, self-criticism, compassion fatigue, boundaries, workplace stress, and the pressure to always be “the capable one.”
I also incorporate mindfulness-based support, drawing from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s understanding of mindfulness as paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, and without judgment. Mindfulness can help healthcare workers and helping professionals notice signs of burnout earlier, respond with more self-awareness, and make more intentional choices around self-care and healthy limits.
Graduate Students and Early Career Professionals
Therapy for the “I worked so hard to get here, so why do I feel this overwhelmed?” stage of life.
Graduate school, training, and early career life can bring up a very specific kind of stress. You may be learning how to be a professional while also trying to be a person, have relationships, answer emails, pay bills, sleep, eat, and somehow build a future.
This stage can come with anxiety, comparison, imposter feelings, perfectionism, procrastination, burnout, and the pressure to prove that you belong. You may find yourself thinking, “Everyone else seems to know what they’re doing,” while quietly wondering when someone is going to realize you are still figuring it out.
In therapy, we explore confidence, boundaries, professional identity, motivation, decision-making, self-worth, and the pressure to perform. We can also make space for the bigger questions: Who am I outside of school or work? What kind of life am I building? What actually matters to me?
My approach is warm, collaborative, and practical. I support graduate students, trainees, and early career professionals in building more self-trust, structure, and flexibility, without needing to shame yourself into functioning.
Parent Support and Parenting Concerns
Parenting can be beautiful, meaningful, exhausting, confusing, and sometimes overstimulating. This can feel especially true when your child is struggling more than expected, having frequent meltdowns, showing disruptive behaviors, navigating a new diagnosis, or needing extra support at home, school, or in medical settings.
You may be trying to understand what your child needs while also managing appointments, school concerns, IEPs or 504 plans, medical questions, behavior at home, sibling dynamics, and everyone’s emotions; including your own. And somewhere in all of that, you are also supposed to drink water, sleep, maintain your relationship, respond to emails, and be a regulated adult.
In therapy, we explore your child’s needs, your parenting stress, family routines, behavior patterns, school concerns, medical or developmental diagnoses, co-parenting, partnership stress, and the guilt that can come with feeling like you are not doing enough.
I also believe that being a parent is one of your identities, but it is not all of who you are. Supporting your child matters, and so does caring for yourself, your marriage or partnership, your relationships, and the parts of you that existed before parenting.
My approach is warm, practical, and nonjudgmental. We work toward understanding what your child may be communicating through behavior while also helping you build realistic tools for connection, structure, advocacy, and support.
Couples & Partnership
Support for couples who want to reconnect, communicate more clearly, and better understand the patterns between them.
Sometimes couples come to therapy because they feel stuck, disconnected, misunderstood, or caught in the same conversations without feeling heard. Other times, they want to strengthen their relationship, improve communication, or navigate a transition together before things feel overwhelming.
Couples therapy can be a space to slow down and better understand the patterns between you. This may include exploring communication, conflict, emotional closeness, trust, family dynamics, parenting, life transitions, intimacy, or feeling like you are on different pages.
My approach is warm, collaborative, and balanced. I work to help each partner feel heard while also identifying the cycle that may be keeping you disconnected. The goal is not to decide who is right or wrong, but to build more understanding, honesty, emotional safety, and connection in the relationship.
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