Psychology expert witness with 5 years of experience as a psychologist and 5 years of expert witness experience, including deposition and court testimony. Her practice focuses on serving immigrants, helping adults heal from childhood trauma, and empowering clients to find their voices within the dominant culture that surrounds them. She specializes in complex trauma, PTSD, anxiety, depression, addictions, and relationship issues. Her clinical work includes individual psychotherapy integrating relational psychodynamic, art, dialectical-behavioral, and cognitive techniques, along with psychodiagnostic and psychoeducational assessments.

She conducts fitness for duty evaluations for major corporations and forensic evaluations involving immigration, civil and criminal matters, and administrative law. Her immigration-related assessment experience includes psychological evaluations for political asylum, residency benefits under the Violence Against Women Act, hardship matters, refugees, and asylees. She has conducted clinical interviews and psychological testing in Spanish, administered psychological assessment batteries, prepared forensic and clinical reports, and provided expert testimony in immigration court as needed. Her work includes Spanish-speaking and minority clients, survivors of persecution, domestic violence, torture, and sexual violence, and clients presenting with major depression, anxiety, personality disorders, PTSD, complex trauma, chronic substance abuse, mood disorders, and severe psychopathology.

She earned a PsyD and Master of Psychology, along with graduate education in geography and undergraduate education in geography with a Latin American studies minor. She is licensed/certified in Washington and board certified in clinical psychology. Her professional involvement includes the American Psychological Association and divisions focused on psychology of women, ethnic minority issues, international psychology, LGBT issues, and trauma psychology. Her background supports psychology expert analysis involving trauma, immigration-related evaluations, forensic assessment, psychodiagnostic evaluation, fitness for duty, and culturally informed clinical practice.