ABOUT  ME

My professional Life

II’m a certified Master Hypnotherapist, Reiki Master Instructor, intuitive healer, painter, and beauty ritualist. My work is rooted in a blend of subconscious transformation, ancestral wisdom, and creative expression, all shaped by a life of resilience, spiritual emergence, and deep listening.

For over 20 years, I thrived behind the chair as a hairstylist, educator, and salon owner. I taught at institutions like AVEDA and Paul Mitchell, and eventually opened my own trauma-informed, LGBTQ+ centered salon. I quickly realized I wasn’t just doing hair. I was holding sacred space. Clients came for a cut but stayed for the healing, the conversations, the release. (Let’s be real: hairstylists are often the unofficial therapists.)

But over time, just listening didn’t feel like enough. I wanted to help in a deeper, more lasting way. For a while, I considered pursuing a path as a licensed clinical social worker. After researching it closely, I realized that model would not allow me to practice in the way I felt called to. Hypnotherapy, on the other hand, offered a rigorous and advanced clinical training that also aligned with my values. It gave me the tools to decolonize mental health work, to practice ethically, and to create care that reflects both my political and moral commitments. I didn’t want surface-level wellness. I wanted transformation. Now, I offer layered, soul-deep work that blends years of beauty, intuition, and care with the science and structure of evidence based subconscious reprogramming. I combine Indigenous practices, clinical hypnosis, intuitive reading, energy work, and even art or ritualistic hair sessions to support transformation on every level: body, mind, spirit, and identity. My work is trauma-aware and justice-centered, honoring each person’s full humanity while addressing the intersections of race, gender, and healing.

Hypnosis, unlike talk therapy alone, allows us to bypass conscious resistance and work directly with the subconscious, where limiting beliefs and deep-rooted patterns live. That is where the real shifts happen, gently, quickly, and meaningfully. Whether you meet with me virtually or in my Long Beach studio, you will be welcomed into a space where you can feel safe, seen, and guided. Together, we will explore what is holding you back and create powerful, aligned change from the inside out.

If you are ready to explore what lies beneath the surface and begin rewriting your story, I would be honored to walk with you.

My Personal Story

I was born in 1983 in Ceiba, Puerto Rico, the youngest of two sisters. My parents separated when I was small, and my mom raised us on her own. We moved first to Washington Heights and later to Virginia Beach, where we stayed with my great-aunt. We were far from the island, but my mother made sure we carried our culture with us. The food, the music, the stories, and the spirituality of our people became the foundation that held me, even as everything else shifted.

From a young age, I was tuned in to something I could not always explain. I knew things and felt things. At seven, I once asked my mom if she remembered my boyfriend with the red Camaro. Of course, I had never had a boyfriend or a car. But I remembered him all the same. My family laughed, but to me it was just one of many moments when my intuition surfaced before I had the language to contain it.

Life was not easy. I grew up queer and neurodivergent in a conservative southern town, bullied and misunderstood, moving through unstable housing and struggling with undiagnosed dyslexia and ADHD. I often felt like the odd one out, even in my own family. At the same time, I was deeply sensitive, able to feel the emotions of those around me. Without support, that sensitivity sometimes overwhelmed me. Anxiety and depression followed, and I spent many years questioning my place in the world.

What saved me, over and over, was connection. Connection to spirit, to art, and to people. My grandfather visited me in dreams and became a guide and protector. Behind the chair as a hairstylist, I learned that people trusted me with more than their hair. They trusted me with their truth. In friendships and in love, I found chosen family who reflected back the worth I struggled to see in myself.

For a long time, I thought being too much was my flaw. Now I understand it is my gift. My sensitivity, my intuition, my creativity, and my hunger for meaning were never problems. They were the raw materials of who I am.

Today, I carry those parts forward openly. I am a queer, Puerto Rican woman, a healing artist, a dreamer, and someone who knows what it means to feel both broken and whole at the same time. I work with people like me: sensitive, neurodivergent, intuitive, magical beings who need a reminder that they are not broken. They are becoming.

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