What I Value and How I Practice

I am deeply to committed to and center my work with the values of the communities that raised me, that call me kin, and call me home, that I have grown and continue to learn with and hold me, and that I feel fierce with. I primarily support Xicanx, IndoHispañ@, Latine, Indigenous, Native, First Nations peoples, multiethnic and bi-racial BIPoC folks, people who move across many fronteras, crossing socio-political geographies, experiences, and realities of unjust limitations or confinements, and people drawn to or committed to the wisdoms, resources and grounding in their cultural practices, their herencia, Mother Earth/Tierra Madre/Pachamama/Coatlicue and other than human kin, and people who find home in many places or have to leave homelands for survival and survivance. I am a disability justice and anti-ableist centered healer, coming from my own experiences of disability, being raised by intergenerational disabled caregivers, and over 27 years of community love, care work, and activism in collaboration with disabled and neurodivergent peoples. As a cis-queer Xicana, I am a Nepantlera, I carry the wisdoms and archives of lands, geographies, and hidden places as I continue to traverse among the multiple places I call home, rooted in the liminal spaces and connected to waters as a unique learning space of being-ness.

I support healing in all the ways healing happens; tending to the personal, spiritual, somatic, expressive, creative, embodied, the forgotten, the re-membered, the silenced, what haunts, the loudness, the historical, political, economic, social, and tending to the awareness of how coloniality is insidious and how we navigate, refuse the oppressive contexts, by which we are living in and do our healing work in - all this and us in our unique healing wisdoms are the shapes of our journeys.

I am grounded in the work of tending to all the ways coloniality has been and continues to impact wellness and healing. Tending to decoloniality in therapy and healing is a task I take up with support from mentors, elders, other healers, community, writers, artists, and academics. I am root and responsible to way I hold and support my own healing journey and how this translates to supporting you. Coloniality, imperialism, capitalism, racism/anti-blackness, ableism, heteronormativity, homo/transpobia, misogyny and classism are important contexts to understanding your needs and honoring your full health and wellness. I ground myself in pluriversal, interconnected, and reciprocal knowledges, relational intentionality, radical uncertainty, and fierce resistance, to continually disrupts and understand how coloniality takes shape and the ways our relation to it impacts our healing. I resist and persist to dismantle the harmful systems rooted in racist, ableist, earth exploiting, colonial thinking. I follow guidance from Indigenous psychologies, liberation psychologies, community psychologist, non-academic brilliant thinkers, disability justice, abolition movements, cultura cura, barrio medicines, poets and artists, activists, earth and animal wisdoms, and ancestors.

I do not believe in pathologization of any aspect of our being or lived experiences and instead seek to understand and be with complexity and context by which our healing takes place. I practice healing that attunes to somatic wisdom, is creative and expressive, is founded in practices of slowing, listening, and deep curiosity. I seek to offer practices that I have been in practice of in my own healing. Healing that calls our wounded spirit home from wandering (dis-association, susto) and allows us to reclaim an embodied querencia, queerencia, collective capacidades in right relation with the lands we live upon, the places we feel into our most authentic self, the places we find sanctuary, and how we are able to connect with our deeper wisdom-strengths, and gifts, honor our collective survivance, radical resilience, and healing within our lineages, our ancestors, our lands, at our multiple identity intersections, and among our cultura.

I am a fiercely politicized, liberation oriented, and decoloniality as a healer. This means we are holding healing in history and context. I am grounded in community wisdom and place my trust in the ever-evolving pluralvisions of our people and the earth. I practice generative practices that hold the sole intention to be for decolonial wellness. My work is Xicanx, Indigenous, and ecologies grounded, it is healing for liberation and you-oriented transformation. As a social justice worker and clinical activist, I have deep knowing of and do not believe in these systems that harm, only in their inevitable dismantling and new visions that will come of this. I view the healing journey as a birthright, an ancestral continuum; practices for individuals, connected to community, sacred, messy, complex, challenging, and beautiful, opening of the pathways towards both personal and collective transformative change.

I am fierce in disrupting binaries and harms of heteronormativity, racism, ableism, and the existence/persistence of coloniality and its layered harms. I honor and am fiercely affirming of 2SLGBTQIA+ folx and in particular trans, gender fluid, non-binary, gender non-conforming, questioning folx, and hold deep gratitude for witnessing each individual in their unique journey and honoring them and their process as sacred, their healing as deeper visions of joy at the intersections of all the multiple identity and life experience complexities.

I offer healing that meets you - where you desire to be met. My offerings are multimodal, culturally integrative, somatically attuned, and creative, expressive centered. My approaches include plática/narrative/cuentista ways of telling, creative/expressive arts, somatic experiencing, somatic abolition, sensorimotor psychotherapy, EMDR, grounded in plural-wisdoms of Xicanx, Indigenous peoples, Liberation psychology, Community psychology and Eco-psychology. See some of the books and art that guides me HERE.