I am a board-certified music therapist and clinical mental health counselor that centers a decolonial, anti-racist, queer, and feminist perspective. As a queer, non-binary, mixed-race white Chicanx, my therapeutic style is influenced by and rooted in community and informed by the belief systems and spiritual practices of my ancestors and Indigenous worldviews and methodologies. I believe in a cocreative and collaborative therapeutic space where I can support you in accessing your own power and agency in your healing process and deeper understanding of yourself. With a trauma-informed and decolonial lens, I draw from different methods and methodologies such as somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems, transpersonal and psychodynamic approaches, music therapy, sound healing and other approaches. I value the wisdom of our bodies and honor my client’s own knowledges, personal practices, strengths and internal resources that contribute to their healing and liberation. Within a decolonial and liberatory framework, my therapeutic style is resource-oriented, somatic, holistic, trauma-informed, collaborative, and relational with a focus on the client’s own resources and strengths, and an awareness and consideration of the societal, cultural, political, environmental, spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects that relate to the health of each client. As a music therapist, I attempt to decenter dominant Eurocentric approaches in music therapy and incorporate Indigenous and non-Western models of healing with sound and music. This expressive, voice-based music therapy approach combines theories and ideas from transpersonal and psychodynamic frameworks and ancient and modern sound healing techniques.
