Thanks for taking the time to read my bio!  I am originally from California and have lived in Minneapolis since 2006. My family is from different parts of Mexico- Jalisco and Chihuahua, northern Sonora, and southern Arizona.  I received a PhD in 2014 in child clinical psychology from the University of Minnesota- Twin Cities. Since 2011, I have been specializing in providing culturally-sensitive early childhood mental health services, parenting programs, and trauma-specific interventions. In 2020, I began working in the American Indian community as a psychologist, first at the Indian Health Board, and now for Red Lake Nation.

 

I am honored and excited to be working with children and families at Mino-B along with kiddos attending Baby Space in the Little Earth community. I love to follow children’s interests to help guide the therapy process- whether that is through games, art, story-telling, nature, sensory experiences, movement, music.  Supporting and empowering parents and caregivers as they raise children is another passion of mine. As a Latina clinician, my goal is to be a good ally and supporter to those in the Native community - every child and family I work with teaches me about the importance of fostering trust in relationships, ways of incorporating Indigenous knowledge, culture, and ceremony into healing, and how we can grow and thrive in the face of trauma.