a little about me
My work grows out of a commitment to decolonizing and queering knowledge and care. For too long, the psychiatric tradition has claimed authority over mental health, dismissing or erasing other healing traditions. I recognize energy work lineages as valid scientific systems in their own right that often hold deeper insight into balance, transformation, and relationality than psychiatry alone can offer. I am trained in an active lineage of energy work that is rooted in restoring harmony between self and collective, not in transcending or extracting from the human experience. My doula training in Berlin, combined with years of mentorship in ritual and energy practices, grounds my work in traditions that honor embodiment, interdependence, and community care.
Academically, I studied sociology and anthropology at Smith College (summa cum laude), with a focus on decolonial thought and feminist epistemologies, and earned a Master’s in Medical Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. My thesis critiqued psychiatry through the lens of energy work, showing how diagnosis and treatment can be reimagined when we view psychiatry as one lineage of care among many, rather than the singular authority.
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For years, friends and community members would tell me that I helped them recognize their neurodivergence and come into themselves without feeling pathologized. Simply by being in my truth, listening deeply, and drawing from my knowledge of critical psychiatry, I was offering a kind of support that many had never experienced in medical settings. After hearing again and again how transformative this was, I formalized this calling through training as a doula and energy worker, orienting my practice around mental health and the delicate thresholds of human experience.
As a mental health doula and energy worker, I support people through altered states, late diagnoses, and spiritual awakenings. My approach blends critical scholarship, advocacy, ritual, narrative work, and energy practices — always centering autonomy and embodied wisdom.
I bring this work as an autistic, non-binary, Dominican-American person whose identity and heritage shape my commitment to decolonizing care. Growing up between multiple cultural worlds taught me how some knowledges are elevated while others are dismissed. My life has been shaped by psychiatric systems, spiritual initiations, and the ongoing process of embracing my neurodivergent bodymind. These experiences, alongside my training, allow me to accompany others with critical insight, humility, and care.
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If my approach resonates, I’d love to hear from you.