about
I am an ancestrally guided, clinically trained, and systems-minded relational healer.
My practice weaves wisdom from two diasporic lineages, Afro-Cuban healers and Gallega meigas.
I have offered relational healing across many contexts: supporting individuals and couples in private practice, providing mental health care in urban medical & HIV/AIDS clinics, and accompanying families through critical illness and death in rural hospitals and homes.
Working intimately with families highlighted the intersections of ancestral trauma, systemic oppression, and relational privilege. I saw firsthand how dying well relies on loving well. My deathwork emboldened my lifelong commitment to serving QTBIPOC, trans, and queer partners.
Practicing at the crossroads of life and death for more than a decade affirmed an important truth: our legacies are shaped by our capacity to love and be loved.
I am passionate about counseling relationships through potent stages of change. My magic comes alive with clients that are committed to loving in more liberated ways. I offer tools to recall somatic and ancestral memories of joy, belonging, and security. I teach dialogue and conflict processes that give people more access to presence, harmony, and pleasure.
My work engages the question: How can the resources of love and security from our personal relationships serve our collective healing and liberation?
I am a lifelong student of ancestral plant medicine, dance, the Buddhadharma, and Hatha Yoga. My spiritual training is rooted in West African/Caribbean and Gallego spiritual lineages. Each healing offering is informed by my relatedness with elders, beloveds, plant, and spirit kin.
I am grateful to be in the practice of right relationship with the traditional homelands of the Nipmuc and Pocumtuk peoples.
Joy finds me when I am dancing, watching hawks dip low, boxing, forest bathing, swimming in the sweet waters of the Kwenitekw River Valley with my son, and roughhousing with my puppy.
“Collective liberation is only possible if we are in right relationship with ourselves, our beloveds, our ancestors, and our Earth.”
200+ hr RYT (2013)
Residential Zen Buddhist Training-Upaya Zen Center (2012)
Usui Reiki Training Level I, II , III Training (2010-2020)
Smith College School for Social Work- MSW
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Training Curriculum (2017)
Self study and community learning in Psolodrama Method (Joel Gluck), Contact Improv and Authentic Movement (2016-present)
Apprenticeship in African indigenous tradition with lineage elders (2019-present)
Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy (PACT) Level 1 Training and self study (2020-present)
Developmental Method for Couples Therapy Training and self-study (2023-present)
Two year apprenticeship with Sacred Warrior School of Holistic Herbalism (2019-2021)
Yearlong Black Madonna/decolonizing divinity community study and practice immersion with Christena Cleveland PhD (2025)
Licensure: (LICSW) Independent Clinical Social Worker, MA