Internal Family Systems (IFS)
As you travel through your internal landscape, I guide you to meet Parts of the Self, and to bring healing to them (with your kind, compassionate loving presence).

If your body/nervous system feels chronically dysregulated; if you feel like your body is against you, or at war with you, this work teaches you how to regulate it, with practices of loving awareness, tenderness, self-attunement, and loving self-compassion. 

As a deeply spiritual (not religious) community minister, my work guides you toward reconnecting with the sacred, in a deeply intimate way.

Part of my work is to help my community restore faith in life again, in order to heal the personal and collective existential depression in this world, which is absolutely alarming and devastating. 

I was born and raised in Cuba under extreme poverty, abuse, neglect, and rejection. From the beginning, my life journey has been one of tremendous struggle but also of tremendous opportunities and growth. I'm a cyclical being and have been called a Phoenix multiple times because of my capacity to rise and start again.

 I came to the United States as a political refugee in 1995 at the age of 21, and as most immigrants, I felt that you are not given an opportunity like this one to waste it. So, I learned the language, the culture, the system; I worked and studied hard (two master degrees and various certifications.) I did everything by the book, but I was left burnout, grief-stricken, and traumatized, because the current systems are like a machinery that inflicts tremendous harm to our nervous systems.  The trauma I experienced under systems of oppression (and the journey through the underworld that followed) opened my eyes to human suffering in a completely different way.

My experience with trauma and oppression, as well as my journey of liberation, shapes my current Ministry of Heart & Soul.