Hello, welcome, I look forward to our relationship

Let me share about myself and why this offering is meaningful to me. In my lived experience as a mother of my son, I often felt under resourced, lost, and consequently like I was never meeting the “good mother” standards. In my work as a therapist, when working with women, mothers, givers of care; their stories resonated with my own experience. Over the past few years, I became my own journalist, talking to other women, mothers, my own mother and reading an abundant of books and articles. Ultimately, I am learning to unburden myself of this “good mother-bad mother” binary and reimagine a new way of caring that rather than merely pathologizing people, it helps.

My offering, a platica is a narrative introspective talk between the two of us. It is centered in offering community to mothers and care givers with love, understanding and creativity for a new way of caring. It does not center pathologizing therapy systems.

While I hold the ethics of my profession, this is not a therapy session but it is a deep self-exploration. The format is culturally centered in peoples lived and historical experiences.

The structure is open, flexible and always grounded in intersectional identities. I do not set a number of talks; 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.

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.