I am a storyteller at heart and a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist (L-CAT) and Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT) by profession.

My career has always revolved around one central idea: human beings tell stories in many different ways. We tell them through words, images, movement, the body, music, and creative expression. Today, I bring those different languages together in my work as a therapist.

In my current clinical work at the Ali Forney Center in New York City, I provide individual and group therapy to LGBTQ+ youth and young adults, integrating creative arts and dance/movement therapy with trauma-informed, person-centered care. My work includes individual counseling, clinical assessment, crisis intervention, care coordination, and the development and facilitation of creative arts therapy groups.

I earned my Master of Science in Dance/Movement Therapy from Pratt Institute, where my clinical training included more than 1,000 hours of direct service in hospital, psychiatric, rehabilitation, and long-term care settings. My experience at NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull and Menorah Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care gave me the opportunity to work with culturally diverse populations and individuals with a wide range of emotional, psychiatric, and cognitive needs, including older adults living with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia.

My therapeutic approach integrates movement, dance, music, creative expression, storytelling, and verbal processing to support emotional expression, self-awareness, connection, social engagement, and overall well-being. I am particularly interested in creating spaces where people can explore identity, relationships, emotions, and personal narratives through both embodied and creative processes.

Before becoming a therapist, I spent more than 15 years working as a Creative Director and Copywriter in advertising. I have also studied creative writing, screenwriting, and social media marketing. Those experiences continue to shape the way I think as a clinician. Creativity, to me, is more than artistic expression—it is a way of communicating, making meaning, imagining possibilities, and discovering new ways of understanding ourselves.

My interdisciplinary education includes a bachelor's degree in Advertising and graduate studies in Creative Writing from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico, graduate studies in Screenwriting at Escuela Universitaria de Artes TAI in Madrid, a Social Media Marketing certification from New York University (NYU), and my graduate clinical training in Dance/Movement Therapy at Pratt Institute.

I have always been fascinated by the ways we search for meaning and construct narratives—from literature and film to movement, symbolism, and even Tarot. While these interests belong to different parts of my creative life, they all reflect the same curiosity: How do we make sense of our experiences, and how can creativity help us imagine what comes next?

Today, I bring that curiosity into my work as a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist. I strive to create therapeutic relationships grounded in warmth, cultural sensitivity, creativity, curiosity, and authentic human connection.

Because sometimes our stories are spoken. Sometimes they are written. And sometimes, the body tells the story before we have the words.