CV

Provide psychotherapy and psychological reports for immigration to individuals, families, or couples, including the LGBT community, focusing on the clients’ experiences in immigration, exile, displacement, and emotional and social challenges.
 

• Conduct virtual, flexible assessment interviews through email and follow-up interviews through Video Telehealth.

• Keep thorough records of the client interviews, following all safety protocols, and maintaining the client’s privacy.

• Establish a trusting rapport with the clients, resonating with their struggles, frustration, and pain in specific issues.

• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the laws and regulations in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

• Sensitive to issues of cultural selfhood and adjustment, leveraging professional and personal knowledge of multinational identity.

Key Accomplishments:
 

- Worked with different lawyers around the U.S. and in professional offices in Westchester and Manhattan, NYC.

- Participated as a guest in a podcast about immigrants and psychology.

- Interviewed for the Brazilian Times, a Brazilian newspaper, and Mundo Latino in Charlotte.
 

Early Career Experience
 

Research Assistant | Fairfield University

Supported the lead researcher by conducting accurate data collection for the research Bilingual Adults: Power and Practice.

Instructor/Adjunct Professor, Psychology | SUNY/Westchester Community College

Taught undergraduate students several sections of general psychology, theories of personality, and abnormal psychology.

Graduate Student Advisor & Facilitator for the Center of Multicultural Relations | Fairfield University

Mentored the graduate and undergraduate students full-time while providing cultural and academic advisement for the center.