About me

I believe that vulnerability and transparency breed connection and trust. Connection and trust foster safety, which encourage softening and healing. Here are some relevant reveals about what brought me to this path and to the specific way I serve my people.

- MA in Clinical Psychology and Buddhist Psychotherapy — Naropa University
- Licensed Professional clinical Counselor Candidate (LPCC) — Under the supervision of Joan Rieger LPC
- DARe levels 1-4 (Dynamic Attachment Re-patterning) — Dr. Diane Poole Heller
- Somatic Soul-based Trauma Training — Somatic Wilderness Therapy Institute
- The Vagus Nerve Program (Polyvagal Theory) — Repairing the Nervous System Australia
- 500+ hrs Yoga Teacher Training
- Femenine coaching under Orgasmic Breath lineage

Training and Approach

My core values

Orientation to truth

Attuning to Truth requires us to drop everything that is not truly YOU. The patterns and beliefs we attach to. The way of life we have built around our identity to solidify it. Giving up feeding emotional addiction for emotional sobriety. Taking emotional responsibility and step into sovereignty.
Interdependence

In Theravada Buddhism, accepting that nothing exists in a vacuum. Our circumstances and environment deeply inform our being. And we deeply impact our surroundings in return. We can learn to hold both: our capacity to meet and respond to life as it is, with approval, and grabbing the wheel of our life as the powerful creators we are.
Innate worthiness

I believe we all are Already Whole. There is nothing we yet need to achieve, get, or become. I believe experiencing life, each other & our consciousness through our body is what we are here to do. From the hurt of life’s inevitable wounding to the bliss of love. It is our relationship to the spectrum of existence that we need to re-learn to thrive.
Connection and co-regulation

We are quite literally neurobiologically wired for connection. This is why childhood experiences have a life-long impact in us. The single most powerful medicine we can give our system is secure, loving relationships with humans, nature, and Source.

A bit of my path

2003 - 2006

My first “jobs” at 12-16 were being a camp counselor at kids´ summer camps in the city and in the countryside. I did not know it then, but facilitating hiking, rappel, outdoor games, and bonfires were the energetic and somatic markers of alchemy, community, and joy that I would use later to create spaces and experiences that honor people as relational, spiritual, and deeply interconnected to nature beings.

2006 - 2008

Because I grew up in an industrial, corporate city and in a family full of entrepeneurs, I never considered not having an office job. I chose to pursue a degree in Organizational Psychology in hopes to help with my family’s business. I was making decisions with my conditioned mind and from a space of wanting to “be useful” and doing what “most made sense.”

2009 - 2012

I started waking up to the person I was truly meant to be during an exchange semester in Australia, which turned into three years. I got lucky and was able to transfer the rest of my undergrad studies to Melbourne. More than attending business school, the deeper current of life was working me, shattering old belief structures and conditioning. Yes I completed a degree here, but it was through the love affair with the city, the connections with people from all corners of the Earth, and the internal compass, courage and loyalty to myself that really shifted my path and timeline. At this time I also discovered Buddhism. Which would stay with me for a long time.

2012 - 2013

After graduation I went back to Mexico and worked in the corporate world in Human Resources. It was the driest landing, and one of the emptiest, least aligned times of my life. My world had been blown open and it was not giving into shrinking back into the molds of the rat race culture.

This very challenging transition led me to try psychotherapy for the first time. It was an experience of being held in my process of figuring out reverse-culture shock, a romantic relationships, the bleakness of work life, and working out some of my family stuff for the first time. Again, life was working me deeper than I knew. It was my psychotherapist who saw my interest in the healing arts. I was already well into the exploration Buddhist teachings, yoga practice, and nutrition and wondered how people lived life without these tools in their life. My therapist he casually suggested I looked into holistic and integrative psychotherapy programs. And dove I did.

2014 - 2016

Figuring out I did not want to pursue a corporate work life was liberating but also very scary. It was a full ego death. Letting go of the person I thought I was and the life I thought I would live definitely moved the ground under my feet on all levels. The fear of making a wrong choice and the voices of people around me were very tempting to listen. While I researched for psychotherapy programs, let my choice really sink in and grow roots in me, I trained as a yoga teacher and taught full time. I had been practicing for over five years and it was a very natural and unexpected progression.

Formally studying and teaching the mind-body connection together with spirituality were a huge missing link for me. Something really clicked. There was no separation of my inside world (beliefs, desires, values) with how I lived/ what I put out in the world. It gave me the felt sense of what alignment could feel like.

2016 - 2019

I found and attended a magical school. This beautiful real-life Hogwarts weaves East and West philosophies, and unlike many psychotherapy programs, the culture here intentionally fosters becoming fully human, rather than the traditional “observing other from an objective space.” The focus here was working out our own “stuff” and hold others from that space, rather than looking at someone to fix them. This looked like meditating together, learning about different energetics and attuning accordingly, practicing rupture and repair.

The ground of the Contemplative Psychotherapy and Buddhist Psychology program at Naropa University is training to see the deep, inherent, brilliant sanity that already exists within ourselves and in others. And to hold this in therapy as a space for the human sitting across to remember and see too.

2018 - 2020

I interned and worked at Boulder, Colorado´s crisis center. Doing crisis work grounded me in a reality of the human experience that so many of us will never know. It viscerally expanded my scope and ability to understand life, trauma, and how basic human needs. Making it stark clear that it is not so much about individual effort and willpower, but also about the support and access to resources what sustains our ability to ground, soften, heal, align, connect, and truly live.

This work also confirmed how insufficient traditional mental health lenses are for our healing and thriving. How obvious it is that we are complex, multi-faceted beings and need spiritual practice, energetic work, a relational and nature-based way of life to cover all that we are.

2020 - Present

I transitioned from agency work to private practice. I loved working within a community and support of fantastic, caring humans in Colorado. At the same time as I sit with my clients now, I love the freedom that comes from exploring and cultivating my very own medicine. Having the support of my therapist, supervisor, and coaches. I see my personal path and my path as a guide & mentor as one and the same. Those who are three steps ahead showing the way, passing the lessons, helping clean the mirror for the next person. My work as a student of life and as a guide has also been expandind beyond being a therapist. I am committed to being guided by truth and letting everything else fall away.