About Me
I am a queer non-binary Bilingual (Spanish/English) white Latiné immigrant licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) based in Berkeley, California.
I was previously the Assistant Training Director at Mills College Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) in Oakland, and have been a clinical supervisor and consultant since 2015 at organizations across the San Francisco Bay Area. I received my Masters in Social Work from the Smith School for Social Work and opened my private practice in 2019. Prior to opening my private practice, I provided intensive outpatient and field-based services, to young people and their families, in community mental health settings for 10 years. My clinical work is founded on a history of engaging in youth and labor organizing, and political education work with adults and adolescents.
Some of my most formative teachers include: the ocean, chamomile (manzanilla), James Baldwin, José Esteban Muñoz, and most of all— my clients.
Interrogating the impacts of structural oppression on the Self and our communities is a fundamental part of my values and reflected in the way I work. I strongly believe in the healing work that can be done in therapy both at an individual level and as a strategy for building power. Individual healing is collective healing and can support our work of transforming the world into a more equitable and just place.
"it's the greening of the trees
that really gets to me... Patient, plodding, a green skin
growing over whatever winter did to us, a return
to the strange idea of continuous living despite
the mess of us, the hurt, the empty. Fine then,
I'll take it, the trees seem to say, a new slick leaf
unfurling like a fist to an open palm. I'll take it all. "
-Ada Limón, "Instructions on Not Giving Up"
