About Me

I am a Filipino American somatic psychotherapist, and I use conscious awareness of our body experience to help discover a sense of freedom and empowerment. I take a compassionate and holistic view towards healing that is informed by Buddhist and Liberation psychologies, social justice, and a belief in our inherent preciousness and inner capacity for healing and wholeness.  

My personal development background includes experience in insight meditation, men’s work, diversity, equity and inclusion work, martial arts, and health, wellness and fitness.  I also have a creative background as a former DJ and producer, and I enjoy live music,  exercise, the arts, and nature.

MY APPROACH :

I believe psychotherapy is a conscious and supportive relationship of inner healing and empowerment.  People come to therapy for many different reasons, such as anxiety, trauma, and life dissatisfaction, and I feel that through a collaborative and compassionate approach towards your struggles we can collectively discover new perspectives to approaching life.

Through a body-based approach, I use mindfulness, or conscious awareness, to explore your experience, which may show up as tension in the body, or even a particular posture or movement.  By exploring the tension with curiosity and compassion, we could potentially allow the tension to release and relax.  From this new place of relaxation, it could potentially give you a new perspective and insight on the situation. 

Through exploration and discovery of unconscious limiting beliefs, mindful somatic psychotherapy can open up the possibility of having new perspectives and new ways of being in the world.

MY QUALIFICATIONS:

  • Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist #144782

  • Certified Hakomi Therapist

  • Certified Brainspotting Therapist

 

EDUCATION:

  • MA, Counseling Psychology, Somatics Concentration, California Institute of Integral Studies

  • MBA, Marketing, Golden Gate University

 

Additional Training:

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy for Trauma

  • NeuroAffective Touch for Developmental Trauma

  • Brainspotting Levels 1-3 & Addictions

  • Hakomi Comprehensive Training

  • Hakomi From Trauma to Dharma