The Rumi quote "Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I'm changing myself." elucidates clearly my calling to this work. We teach what we need to learn and I'm continually grateful for the process of therapy - as a seeker and provider - for the humbling and harrowing paths I've walked with other seekers and alone on my own path. I know how significantly us humans need each other to heal. Your healing is my healing, and our family's healing, and the healing of communities/generations to come. Almost 12 years of experience has led me to amazing opportunities for learning and working in domestic violence and youth shelters, inpatient and in-home treatment, community-based mental health for BIPOC and migrant communities, and private practice. Along the way, I have understood how often the need for belonging can come at the expense of safety and why a trauma-competent and integrative approach is needed to support the healing of complex, relational, and cultural traumas. I love to mix the spiritual with the experiential, balance the somatic/physiological with the intellectual. I am deeply curious about and continually learning the ways our nervous systems interact with various parts of ourselves and the power of dissociation in trauma work. I enjoy utilizing EMDR to connect the past to the present and am continuously in awe of what I've witnessed others achieve through this modality. I am passionate about helping clients uncover and remember their internal power and capacities for healing.