My Story

I am from the Bay Area in California. In 2014, I moved to Edinburgh, Scotland, where I lived for almost six years to train and work as a therapist. I made Spain my home in 2020 with my bicultural and bilingual family. For nearly a decade, I have worked as a therapist in two countries in various settings with people worldwide.

In 2015, I began my practice as a therapist working primarily with Scottish and English adults grappling with a wide range of issues. A year later, I expanded my practice by working as a volunteer counsellor with children and young people struggling with parental substance misuse. I became a senior member of staff at Simpson House Counselling and Recovery in 2018, where I worked with adults affected by their own or a family member’s misuse of substances. Working with people with substance misuse issues taught be a lot about trauma and how to facilitate healing psychosomatically.

While working as a counsellor, I also was a receptionist at Bright Light Relationship Counselling which is the largest provider for counselling in Scotland. I became interested in working with couples there and sought certification as a couples counsellor with Relationship Scotland. Working with international couples piqued my interest to focus more on the experiences of people who, like me, are not native to the place they are living.

I began my private practice in 2019, and over the past four years, my private practice has shifted from working with people of all ages to working online and in person with adults and couples. My specialities include working with relationship issues, relational trauma, grief counselling, identity issues, and life transitions.

My approach to therapy has been shaped by my doctoral research, which took a relativist, collaborative, and subjective standpoint. I studied people’s experiences of healing and transformation through vocal practices. My research findings revealed how our voices may act as a window into our psyche; hence, I named my practice True Voice Counselling, reflecting my interest and appreciation of the voice as a healing tool. My research developed my skill set for how to offer clients creative and embodied methods for deepening self-knowledge and self-expression.