After two Master’s and several certifications, including the AASECT Sex Therapy Certification (the effort of a third master!), a new level of learning and growth arrived—how to create a financially successful practice?

No one taught me how to run a business as an intern or even as a young clinician. All these years later,  I still recall being both proud and frozen when my first client in private practice handed me a check. I made a million mistakes and lost thousands of dollars trying to figure things out. I was getting ready to close my practice less than a year after I opened. Then I got a business coach.  

Working with various coaches, I learned about business mindset and dreaming boldly, how to use my integrative and holistic therapeutic approaches in business, and spiritual practices I had learned along the way. I figured out the business model and structure I needed to support and expand my dreams without burning out or neglecting time with family and loved ones.

In 2018, life offered me new opportunities after the passing of my mentor, Gina Ogden.  New quests began: How to bring more BIPOC folks into the world of sex therapy and how to help more therapists become successful therapy therapreneurs?  

I became an AASECT Certified Sex Therapy Supervisor.  Seeing the need for innovative and culturally-sensitive sex therapy, I founded the Center for Relationship & Intimacy WellBeing, which serves individuals and couples throughout California and soon across the country.  In Fall 2023, my team and I will open a second group practice, Integrative Holistic Online Therapy, focused on spiritual practices and therapy.  Fall 2023 will bring another way to serve clinicians and helpers.  Retreats and workshops help therapists earn CEUs while learning powerful ways to revitalize the soul of the healer while learning the business and mindset tools to support their dreams. 

I also am fortunate to support therapists as a business coach & consultant in creating the private practice of their dreams, including group practices.  It is a blessing to see others dream big!

I also help high-profile entrepreneurs/professionals, therapists, and other healing arts practitioners learn to manage leadership stresses and improve relationships at work and in their personal lives.  One of my greatest joys is serving the Latinx and Spanish–speaking communities.  My goal is to help break down taboos and misinformation and transform rigid male–female sexuality stereotypes.  I have done this through segments on Telemundo, Univision, and radio.