There's a longer road behind this work.

About Me

I spent nearly twenty years in services, marketing, and tech before I became a therapist. I was good at the work — strategic, relentless, curious — but I kept finding myself more interested in the people than the products. In the relationships underneath the organizations. In what made someone feel seen or invisible, connected or alone.

I left that career to pursue a Master of Science in Marriage and Family Therapy at Northwestern University's Family Institute. It was not a small decision. I had two young children, a husband, and a life that didn't pause for a career change.

My clinical specialties didn't come from a textbook. They came from living. I have a fertility journey that spans more than two decades. I've had two profoundly different births — one during the height of COVID, isolated and afraid, which cracked me open in ways I'm still understanding. And another that healed me in profound ways, literally and figuratively. I work with couples on desire and disconnection because I know what both feel like from the inside. I work with men who feel lonely in their relationships because I've sat across from that loneliness and recognized it as something real, solvable, and often invisible.

I am a cis-het Latina. I am a mother, a wife, a friend, and a colleague. I bring all of that into the room and I understand what the stakes actually are.

My approach is integrative and systemic. I draw on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Internal Family Systems (IFS), and attachment theory. I am trauma-informed, culturally humble, and direct. I will not tell you what you want to hear if what you need to hear is more useful.

I believe most people don't need to be fixed. They need to be better understood. By themselves, and by the people closest to them. That's the work.

Training and Credentials

Master of Science, Marriage and Family Therapy — Northwestern University / The Family Institute

Bachelor of Science, Applied Sociology, minor in Psychology — Texas State University

Associate Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (ALMFT), Illinois

Continuing Education: Transitions to Parenthood — Chicago School of Continuing Education

Professional Memberships

American Association for Marriage & Family Therapy (AAMFT)

Illinois Affiliation of Marriage & Family Therapists (IAMFT)

International Family Therapy Association (IFTA)