Hello, welcome, I look forward to our therapeutic relationship

Let me share about my offering, a therapeutic platica (talk) is a narrative introspective analysis and trauma-informed therapy modality . While I hold the legal responsibilities and ethics of my profession, the format is more open and flexible and always grounded in intersectional identities. I do not set a number of appointments; I allow for you to note when it’s the right time to do your internal reflection. During our first platica, we will both decide if this therapeutic format is appropriate for you.

This is not an appropriate modality for those with recent mental health crises: mental health hospitalizations within the past 6 months or persistent intrusive suicide ideation, lethal self-harm behaviors or a suicide attempt within a year.

My approach includes analysis meaning that I gently bring awareness to difficult entrenched patterns of thinking and behaviors that may no longer be serving your intention or growth. I also am by training a trauma-informed therapist, which means, I invite processing of difficult familial, individual, and collective memories as appropriate. These are 1 one 1 platicas, I do not provide family or couples offerings.

Intersectional identities, is based on the work of Black Scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw that considers the way different forms of oppression (such as racism, sexism, classism, homophobia, and so on) can combine and interact to produce multifaceted systems of oppression and privilege that shape the experiences of individuals.