Clinical Skills Educator

Pronouns: they/she

I am honored to work alongside emerging clinicians, helping them shape their inherent talents and passions into work that is intentional, expressive, and evidence-based.

Clinical education extends beyond acquiring knowledge of interventions. It also means channeling the creative, intuitive, and relational instincts students already carry into sustaining, meaningful therapeutic work. It is a joy to support students in discovering their unique therapeutic style while staying grounded in theory and practice.

Practicum and internship are powerful times to bridge conceptual knowledge with embodied, experiential learning. We examine how systems of power, community, and the therapeutic relationship itself shape the therapeutic process. Together, we can approach this learning process with curiosity, compassion, humility, and courage.

My work is grounded in Liberation Psychology and shaped by person-of-the-therapist, trauma- informed, and anti-oppressive frameworks. I am passionate about experiential approaches to both therapy and education. In my clinical work I draw on attachment theory, polyvagal theory, somatic-based therapy, Internal Family Systems, mindfulness, and EMDR.

As a nonbinary, queer, Latine/Chicanx multiracial educator with lived experience of developmental, activist, and community trauma, I approach teaching as a reciprocal process of learning, unlearning, and co-creation. My deepest hope is that students leave their training not only clinically competent, but genuinely connected to themselves, to their values, and to the larger collective movement toward healing and liberation.