I have created this page to share my knowledge, works, and resources. This page is solely for informational and educational purposes. No services are rendered or implied. I am a board certified CPSW. I intend to become certified as a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). My specialties and lived experiences include behavioral health, PTSD and complex-trauma, and LGBTQIA+ struggles and barriers. I am living proof that recovery is possible and that individuals can live a life of empowerment and wellness. I offer hope, support, compassion, empathy, and tools as someone who directly understands the journey and pain of recovery as well as the cultural, systemic, hierarchical, and socioeconomic barriers that surround this. Recovery is non-linear but recovery is possible. I believe all of us who have suffered from trauma, mental illness, addiction, or co-occurring disorders can achieve our life goals and reach our full potential. I am an advocate for mental health, recovery, and social justice. Through collaboration with clinicians, individuals who have lived experience, community resources, and advocacy, we can help change lives and offer the highest level of support, understanding, compassion, empathy, and true recovery and trauma-informed care. To support others and walk alongside them through their journey is my calling and I find it a profound honor and privilege.
“We have learned that trauma is not just an event that took place sometime in the past; it is also the imprint left by that experience on mind, brain, and body. This imprint has ongoing consequences for how the human organism manages to survive in the present. Trauma results in a fundamental reorganization of the way mind and brain manage perceptions. It changes not only how we think and what we think about, but also our very capacity to think.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Wellness encompasses 8 mutually interdependent dimensions: physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, vocational, financial, and environmental.
Through collaboration with clinicians, individuals who have lived experience, community resources, and advocacy, we can help change lives and offer the highest level of support, understanding, compassion, empathy, and true recovery and trauma-informed care.
Coming Soon: Mental Wellness Peer Collaborative, and online Peer Support Community.