Meet Jacqueline
I am on a mission to help therapists and healing arts practitioners achieve high impact in the world without burnout or losing passion for other parts of life.
Your Dreams Come to Life
You’ve dedicated your life to helping others heal — now it’s time to bring your own dreams to life. Whether you’re expanding your practice, stepping into sex therapy, or creating offerings that reflect your authentic voice, I help you turn vision into action. Together, we blend heart, strategy, and soulful alignment so your work not only thrives financially but also feels deeply fulfilling, purposeful, and alive.
Whole Person Approach
Healing and growth begin when we honor the wisdom of the whole self — body, mind, heart, and spirit. By attuning to our needs, strengths, and inner resources, we awaken the power within to learn, transform, and thrive. My approach integrates science, somatic awareness, and soulful practices to release limiting beliefs, patterns, and behaviors that no longer serve you. With grounding and compassion, we cultivate resilience, confidence, and empowerment — allowing you to live and lead from your fullest, most authentic self.
A Whole-Person Approach to AASECT & Clinical Supervision
Supervision is not just about skill-building — it’s about personal evolution. I support therapists and sex therapists-in-training in integrating mind, body, spirit, and culture into their professional development.
Together, we explore clinical cases, countertransference, and identity with curiosity and compassion. My approach weaves evidence-based practice with ancestral wisdom, embodiment, and pleasure-centered learning, empowering you to grow as both a clinician and a whole human being.
A Whole-Person Approach to Business Support
Your business is an extension of your soul’s work. I help therapists and healers grow practices that feel aligned, sustainable, and alive — not just profitable. Through a blend of strategy, mindset, and embodied awareness, we uncover what truly fuels your purpose and success. By integrating intuition with action, and pleasure with productivity, you’ll create a business that supports your wellbeing, honors your values, and allows your vision to thrive.
Empowering others has always been a guiding force in my life. My approach weaves together research-based knowledge, embodied wisdom, and deep, compassionate listening. Each session, whether supervision or business support, becomes a ritual of healing — honoring the body, pleasure, and ancestral roots. I guide clients in reconnecting with their wholeness through a sex-positive, heart-centered, and culturally grounded lens.
Embodiment + Somatics
Pleasure-Based Practices
Mindfulness & Meditation
Neuro-Care Practices
Leadership + Professional Development
Values-Based + Strengths-Focused Work
My Journey...
We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
– Marcel Proust
As far back as I can remember, I have always wanted to help people. Being the eldest and serving as a translator for my mother, taking on the role of a helper was essential. Like many immigrant families, we had close connections to one another, the native language, and our cultural roots. I grew up in a home with parents who had committed to parenting my sister and me differently than they were. We were told the truth about many family dynamics and even transgenerational secrets.
I was in college when my father died—my whole world collapsed. I felt lost and did not know what to do with the devastating impact of my father’s unexpected loss. Amidst the chaos and depth of grief, I stumbled across a psychology class. There, I began understanding what was happening with my family and me. I was hooked.
Like many therapists fresh out of graduate school, I started my career in nonprofit community mental health, full of hope and idealism. Almost immediately, I realized how little support there was for real supervision or mentorship. Supervision wasn’t about growth, reflection, or helping clients—it was about productivity, meeting funding quotas, and checking boxes. On top of that, high supervisor turnover meant that each new person seemed more disconnected, sometimes even harsher than the last.
During my two years at a treatment facility for sexually abused teen girls, I discovered what truly ignited me: helping survivors reclaim their sense of self and their bodies. But it was also a deeply frustrating and painful experience. I was repeatedly instructed not to talk about positive sexuality, only trauma, because the funding dictated it. Witnessing how the system limited healing sparked something in me—a determination to honor the full spectrum of survivors’ experiences, including joy, pleasure, and empowerment. That tension between trauma and the human capacity for pleasure became the foundation of the work I do today.
Dreaming Boldy
Everything that happens to you is in service to you remembering and embodying your beautifully divine and loving nature. – Jacqueline Mendez
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 2025, my team and I will open a non-profit, A Healing Ground, focused on spiritual practices and therapy. Fall 2026 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 am also 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.
Integrative Sex Therapist
Sex Therapy Supervisor
Business Coach for Healers + Helpers
Transformational Coaching for Women
Coaching for Latinas + Latinx Femmes
Founder of Center for Relationship + Intimacy Well-Being (California, Expanding to other States)
Holistic Sexual Healing Coaching(National + International)
Founder of Latinx Sex Therapy
What I Bring
I guide my clients through body movement, heart-centered techniques, psychology, and spirituality to align body, heart, mind, and spirit.
My work lives at the intersection of sexuality, sensuality, and spirituality — a space where healing becomes wholeness. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (California), an AASECT Certified Sex Therapist and Supervisor, and a Transformational Life & Business Coach. I’m also a Practitioner of the 4-D Medicine Wheel and the founder of a growing group practice expanding nationwide. I hold a B.A. and M.A. from Pepperdine University and a second Master’s in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. I’ve also studied extensively under Michaela Boehm, completing teacher training in her embodiment and movement methodologies.
Over the years, I’ve integrated the Four-Dimensional Wheel approach with body-focused, movement-based, and spiritual practices — weaving together Tantra, mind-body connection, Sexual Yoga, Sex Therapy, the Nonlinear Movement Method, and shamanic wisdom to serve both clients and clinicians.
I’ve helped entrepreneurs and therapreneurs create thriving solo and group practices rooted in authenticity and purpose. Drawing from decades of clinical experience, I support professionals in developing innovative, integrative skills while finding their own unique voice as healers. I also lead holistic coaching programs for individuals and couples seeking deeper connection, joy, and fulfillment.
In supervision, I use embodiment and the concept of the Person of the Therapist to bridge the personal and technical aspects of therapy. Together, we explore how the self — both its strengths and its imperfections — becomes a powerful tool for transformation and relational healing.
As a media contributor and speaker, I’ve shared my insights on sexuality, intimacy, and wellbeing with platforms such as The New York Times, Bustle, Refinery29, Insider, Business Insider, HipLatina, and the Motion Picture Television Fund, among others.
Professional Credentials
Licenses & Certifications
- Licensed Marriage Family Therapist – MFC43228 (California)
- AASECT Sex Therapist
- AASECT Sex Therapy Supervisor
- Four-Dimensional Practitioner, founded by Gina Ogden
- EMDR Trained
- Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy
- Nonlinear Movement (Michaela Boehm)
- Wild Woman’s Way
- Intimacy & Attraction
Education Background
- M.A., Clinical Psychology, emphasis on Marriage Family Therapy Pepperdine University
- M.A., Spiritual Psychology, University of Santa Monica
- B.A., Clinical Psychology, Pepperdine University
- Mentored & Supervised by Dr. Gina Ogden, creator of the 4-D Approach
- The Work: Byron Katie
- Couples Institute Basic & Advanced Training
- CIIS Psychedelic Certification
- Polaris Ketamine Training
Professional Experience
- AASECT Conference 2027 Puerto Rico | Co-Chair
- AASECT Conference 2026 Puerto Rico | Co-Chair
- AASECT Conference 2025 Las Vegas | Social Chair
- AASECT JEDI Committee
- AASECT Outeach Committee
- AASECT Annual Conference Presenter | 2016, 2019, 2026
- Women’s Sexual Stories:
Healing the Wounds, Celebrating the Joy, Co-Facilitator with Gina Ogden & Kamara McAndrews; Rowe, MA & Esalen, Big Sur, CA - Regular segment contributor for Telemundo & Univision
- Interviewed/Segment contribution: Telemundo, New York Times, Univision, OK Cupid, Bustle, Insider, Daily Mail, and Well + Good.
- Podcast guest
- Founder, Center for Relationship & Intimacy Well-Being, CA
- Founder, A Healing Ground, CA
- Founder, Holistic Sexual Healing Coaching, USA & International
- Currently writing a book on Latino Sex Therapy
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