Background & Experience
Thirty years of practice across cultures, languages, and generations.
I've been a licensed clinical psychologist for thirty years, and very little of what I know came from a single training or a straight path.
Personal roots
Some of it is personal. I immigrated from Venezuela and moved to Chicago for graduate school, which gave me an early, firsthand understanding of what it means to rebuild a sense of home and identity in an unfamiliar place — an experience that later shaped my dissertation on multicultural parenting, and has stayed with me in my work with immigrant and expatriate families ever since.
I have thirty years of continuous, hands-on learning — across cultures, languages, generations, and disciplines — and the ability to bring all of it into the room with the person actually in front of me. Many of the colleagues who refer clients to me tell me they're looking for exactly that: a wise, integrative perspective they can trust with complexity.
Credentials
- Licensed Psychologist, State of Florida, PY# 7141
- Level 3 Gottman Method Couples Therapy training
- Authority to Practice Interjurisdictional Telepsychology (APIT), PsyPact Commission — Mobility Number 16126