Providing culturally-informed neuropsychological, assessment, and psychotherapy telehealth services to residents of California, Nevada, and New York in English and Spanish. Proporciono evaluaciones neuropsicológica informado culturalmente, y servicios de telesalud psicoterapia dirigida a los residentes de California en Inglés y Español.Como chicana (bilingüe y bicultural) mi objetivo es privilegiar los contextos culturales en las evaluaciones y la psicoterapia individual, así como promover estrategias de cambio más efectivas.

Founder and independent consultant with ten years of experience helping families navigate the college application process, select "good fit" schools, and apply for admissions.  Help families understand university requirements Review courses available at the high school, compare and balance rigor and ability with student Set post-secondary goals and how to prepare for college applications and scholarships Review, prepare, strategize for standardized tests Assistance with personal statement for admissions and scholarships Review, select and apply to select colleges and universities. Help students create and write the best personal statement for admissions to college, supplemental applications and for scholarship applications. Assistance with ideas to execution to help share a story that best describes the applicant.

Psychology and Alcohol Drug Studies

Analyze undergraduate freshman applications through a process called Comprehensive Review, where we use all application data to assess students' academic and personal achievements in comparison to the academic opportunities available to that student. Readers undergo extensive training, practice scoring and understand how to appropriately read each application. Each application is reviewed with several criteria and scored as one method of review for admissions to UCLA. Contracted position during high volume application season

APA Accredited, 2000-hour postdoctoral fellow Advanced training and professional development specializing in the provision of services in the public sector and poverty medicine setting in several clinics across the hospital:-Provide outpatient psychotherapy and consultative services at the Gardena High School Medical Clinic (Adolescent Medicine) -Behavioral Medicine Consult Clinic: consult and provide short-term treatment to patients referred from various medical departments and clinics at HUMC. -Provide weekly consultation services to the Department of Pediatrics focused on reducing diabetes and overweight and obesity disparities in pediatric populations-Participation in supervision of clinical cases, administrative issues, professional development, and supervision of externs-Provide long term EBP psychotherapy to patients with complex medical diagnoses

Concurrent rotations on outpatient and inpatient (Brain Injury Unit and Spinal Cord Injury Unit), conduct and score brief and comprehensive neuropsychological and psychodiagnostic assessments on populations with a wide array of medical and neurological diagnosis, conduct medical chart reviews, and write integrative neuropsychological and psychodiagnostic reports, provide individual neuropsychological and psychological interventions (i.e. cognitive remediation, psychotherapy, psychoeducation, behavioral counseling, advocacy counseling). Interdisciplinary team consultation including participation in patient evaluations, and conferences

Serve as academic, college and crisis counselor for the Hamilton Humanities Magnet students and parents with academic challenges and high achieving students with college concerns. Collaborate with other counselors to create a college going culture on campus. Team up with other counselors, teachers and administrators to create the school’s master schedule, aid in course planning, and class scheduling. Created an Academic Probation program decreasing probation students by 40% Execute workshops for college and graduation for 9-12th grade students and parents Increased attendance at college counseling workshops from previous years by 100% Aided the Humanities magnet seniors be accepted to four year colleges and universities Coordinate student activities such as graduation ceremony, prom, senior week, talent show  Lead 100 students to complete the Los Angeles marathon with Students Run Los Angeles

Taught high school students leadership and management skills such as Facilitative Leadership, Situational Leadership, Group Development Model, Results/Process/Relationships and Teambuilding and served as the liaison for two camps on university campuses in CaliforniaCreated new curriculum for counseling, peer support for leadership studentsTrain staff with new material every yearSupervised ten staff members and 300 high school students during four days of camp

Student Affairs Assistant April 2003-August 2004UCLA College Academic Counseling Advised students in-person and via telephone on all college rules, regulations, policies, process student academic petitions; scheduled and prepared files for counseling appointments, updated substitutions/exemptions on Degree Progress Reports and monitored student progress through academic petitions Updated course articulations with colleges and universities on counseling database, Created numerous academic planning guides, supplements, references for students

Peer Counseling Coordinator - Organized a peer counseling team to counsel students seeking academic readmission to UCLA, organized and facilitated peer counselor training on counseling techniques, academic methodologies and strategies, organized database of student information and participated in meetings with university administrators, academic counselors, and student leaders involved in the program.Peer Counselor, Mentorship Coordinator - Advised UCLA students on course selection, academic planning, financial planning, personal issues, etc. for one of five student-initiated, student-run organizations focused on advising students on academic probation.