About me
I’ve always been fascinated by human relationships. I am convinced that the way we interact with ourselves, and the quality of our connections with others can be a source of either deep satisfaction or extensive suffering. I also know from experience that this happens all over the world, and in all cultures regardless of education level, social status, gender, sexual preference, religious beliefs, or skin color.
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In addition, I am convinced that by becoming aware of our own emotions, skills, beliefs, and values we will be able to recognize the interdependence between individual and collective well-being, since personal development linked to social awareness generates a positive impact on our environment and contributes to the construction of a more egalitarian and sustainable world.
However, very rarely do we manage to transform our dysfunctional dynamics without the right accompaniment. It is essential to find an emotional and relational health professional who has developed solid skills adapted to different realities and needs.
I offer you an accompaniment that will allow you to find greater clarity, emotional, bodily, mental and spiritual balance, connecting you from a place of much more understanding, acceptance and love.
Sessions are one-to-one but workshops and lectures can be for small or large groups in English, Spanish or French.
It will be a privilege to better know and accompany you in your journey
either individually or by helping you with the reinforcement of collective capacities and skills of your organization or community.
My experience
I have more than 15 years of experience working directly with diverse communities, whether as a social worker, mediator, as an intervener, or as a community organizer, before graduating as a therapist. I have developed my own engagements with well-being, mental health and social justice. Throughout these years I have also had the luck and privilege of being able to learn from and accompany people from all over the world through their painful processes and important changes, people from different cultures, religions, social classes and sexual orientations.
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I am the only child of divorced parents. Since I was a child, I have had to adapt to rapidly changing contexts. I moved at 21 from Mexico City to Montreal, where I have lived for the last 20 years. I am a Latina migrant woman and non-white person, constantly adapting between two cultures with multiple intersections. In both Canada and Mexico, I often find myself in contexts where I am a minority, the only one, “the exotic one”, the rebellious one or the radical one. I understand how exhausting it is to want to belong and to forget myself in wanting to. I also know what it’s like to feel like you’re never good enough for anything, or that you’re never in the right place. I know that feeling of being foreign almost everywhere, that feeling of not being able to fully integrate... but now this doesn’t bother me anymore.
I have learned to feel good in almost any situation. I strongly embrace my differences, and now it is much wasier for me to realize that when the desire to want to belong comes back, I am able to take care of myself in that moment. Today I feel in harmony, in balance and aligned with my axis. I can set my limits easily. I have learned to honor my experience, to love my scars and above all, to find value in my uniqueness.
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Now I accept myself more, I appreciate my solitude, I depend much less on the love and approval of others. I am able to see my own inner beauty, my strengths and also my abilities. I am proud of everything I have achieved and I feel satisfied. Everything I have experienced makes me the person and therapist that I am today, and this is what I carry with me in my therapeutic approach. To me every person is unique in the universe. With me you will find there is authenticity, human warmth, depth, and a huge sensitivity from our first session together, and that will help you find more clarity and awareness. Gradually, we will work at your pace in the areas of your life and on the relationships that most need your care and attention.