How Fiction and Psychotherapy Complement Each Other:

I am a psychotherapist who writes fiction. Or maybe a fiction writer who practices psychotherapy.

I have always been attracted to the short story, the novel’s strange little sibling. I find stories gripping, transcendent, and revealing in a way that often strikes me by surprise. Stories are like unexpected moments when you catch something fleeting that pierces your heart.

Writer Reflects On Her Mother’s Mexican Immigrant Experience & The Call To California:

I am a second-generation Mexican-American on my maternal side. Like so many of us today, my genealogy reads like a complicated recipe.

March 11th was the day my office went dark. The wooden cube calendar on my desk remains fixed on the date, like a monument to the day we all went into hiding from a common enemy: Covid-19.