I began working as a therapist in 2000 in Houston, TX after I completed my graduate work in clinical social work. For the first decade of my professional life, I worked in bilingual community mental health settings and found this work to be foundational to my clinical development. I am from Mexico City, went to graduate school and worked for the majority of my career in Houston, TX and continue my practice there while being currently based in Austin, TX.

I have been fortunate to treat people in various points in their healing journey, including acute psychiatric care and intensive outpatient programs. I worked at the Menninger Clinic in Houston in the unit for young adults for several years, where I specialized in dual diagnosis and personality disorders. I also supervised clinical interns and fellows.

I am a strong proponent of fitting the therapy to the patient and not the other way around. I believe it is the therapist’s duty to learn the patient’s “language”, that is, to work in an integrative and collaborative manner in assessing which modality is beneficial to each person at a given time.

I want you to feel deeply seen and heard, while also trusting that you will be skillfully challenged when needed.

In addition to advanced post-graduate training in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy from the Houston Center for Psychoanalytic Studies and from the Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, I am formally trained in various other clinical modalities. These include EMDR, Exposure therapy for OCD and ACT therapy. I am also an experienced certified yoga teacher and completed training in Trauma-Sensitive Yoga at the Center for Trauma and Embodiment in Massachusetts.

I hold a certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy from CPTR and have specialized training in Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy from Fluence and Polaris. I am also a certified group psychotherapist and offer embodiment-based group therapy.

Having seen the deep and longstanding benefits that long-term depth therapy brings, I am also deeply passionate about building and strengthening the psychoanalytic clinical community. I have served as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston’s Graduate School of Social Work and have been a clinical supervisor since 2004. I am the Clinic Director for Depth Counseling Texas, a group practice based in Chicago that specializes in psychodynamic psychotherapy, and the president of the Houston Psychoanalytic Society. I also provide consultation services to clinicians.