My Journey

My path to becoming a therapist was not a straight line.

I was born in Mexico City and spent most of my life there before immigrating to the United States. Before entering the mental health field, I spent nearly a decade working as an architect.

Architecture taught me to think about how people experience the spaces around them. But over time, I became increasingly curious about a different kind of space: our internal world. The beliefs, experiences, relationships, and patterns that shape how we move through life.

My own relationship with therapy began before I ever became a therapist. I experienced the process from the other side of the room, and that experience changed me.

I learned what it feels like to be truly seen, heard, and understood. I experienced firsthand the power of having someone create a safe space when you are trying to make sense of yourself and your life.

That experience stayed with me.

Eventually, I decided to pursue a master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at the University of Houston-Clear Lake and begin a new chapter in my career.

Today, I work with individuals, couples, and families navigating anxiety, depression, relationships, life transitions, career changes, and those moments when you know something needs to change but aren't quite sure where to begin.

My journey has taught me that healing rarely happens by forcing ourselves to become someone different.

It often begins with understanding ourselves more deeply.

My Commitment

I believe therapy should feel like a place where you can take off the armor.

You don't have to arrive with everything figured out. You don't have to know exactly what's wrong. And you certainly don't have to perform being "okay" for me.

My role is to help you slow down and become curious about what's happening beneath the surface.

What are you feeling? What are you protecting? What patterns keep showing up? What parts of you are asking for attention? And what kind of life are you actually trying to build?

I work from the belief that people have an incredible capacity for growth when they have the right conditions to do it.

That means bringing both compassion and accountability into the room. I want you to feel accepted as you are while also feeling supported in moving toward the person you want to become.

With individuals, I draw from approaches including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Internal Family Systems to help clients develop greater clarity, self-compassion, and connection with their values and inner world.

With couples and families, I pay close attention to the relational patterns happening between people—not just the conflict on the surface, but the attachment needs and protective responses underneath it.

I don't see myself as the person who has all the answers.

I bring the training, the perspective, and the tools. You bring your experience and your wisdom about your own life.

We'll figure out the rest together.

My hope is that therapy becomes a space where you feel safe enough to be honest, curious enough to explore, and supported enough to make meaningful changes.

My Training

My clinical work is informed by evidence-based approaches that help clients understand themselves, their relationships, and the patterns that shape their lives.

My training includes:

• Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) — helping clients clarify their values, develop psychological flexibility, and take meaningful action even when difficult thoughts or emotions are present.

• Internal Family Systems (IFS) — supporting clients in developing greater compassion and curiosity toward the different parts of themselves.

• Gottman Method Couples Therapy — using research-based tools to help couples strengthen friendship, communication, emotional connection, and relationship resilience.

• Relational Life Therapy (RLT) — exploring relational patterns, accountability, and the ways we can develop healthier ways of connecting.

• Mindfulness and meditation — incorporating practices that cultivate greater awareness, presence, and connection with the body and inner experience.

• Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy — continuing specialized training in this emerging field from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute, with an emphasis on preparation, therapeutic support, and thoughtful integration.

• Silva Method meditation training

• Davidji Meditation Academy’s Masters of Wisdom & Meditation

• Continuing education through Harvard Medical School and other specialized training programs

I believe being a good therapist means remaining a lifelong student. I am continually learning, questioning, and expanding my understanding so that I can offer clients thoughtful, culturally responsive, and grounded care.

Ultimately, my training gives me the tools—but it is the human connection between therapist and client that makes the work meaningful.