I grew up in Miami, the eldest of three girls and the daughter of Cuban immigrants. My mother owned a café and managed restaurants. I grew up inside that world, and that sensibility never left me.

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I studied international relations at university, spoke Spanish at home, and spent years traveling. Drawn to understanding how different cultures hold intimacy, pleasure, and the body. The questions that fascinated me were always relational, how do people connect, and what gets in the way?

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How I got here

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The more personal answer starts with my own body. Despite a rigorous education, I realized I knew almost nothing about my own hormonal cycles or sexual anatomy. That gap,  so common, so rarely named,  sent me toward body literacy. I became a certified holistic sexual health educator, teaching reproductive and sexual health across genders and ages. I thought information was the answer. Then I started hearing what people were actually carrying.

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In session after session, people shared pain and confusion about their intimate lives. Quietly, carefully, as if they'd never had anywhere to put it. That hidden wound moved me. It pushed me to look beyond education into something more direct, the body itself as the site of healing.

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I discovered somatic sex and intimacy education through the work of Caffyn Jesse and others, deepening my understanding of what attuned, intentional touch can do. I dove into Tantra and conscious BDSM, weaving those ancient threads alongside trauma-informed, science-centered foundations.

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What became undeniable through all of it — there is a profound difference between understanding something with the mind and experiencing it through the body.

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My practice today

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I've been working in holistic sexual health for over a decade, and in this deeper, body-centered work for over five years. My practice has become very specific, quiet in its approach, and profound in what it opens.

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Over time, my work distilled into three core elements: Presence. Permission. Pace. These form the foundation of what I call Restorative Intimacy, an approach to connection that is body-led rather than outcome-driven.

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Presence brings attention to what is actually here, moment by moment. Permission creates space for responses to arise without pressure, expectation, or the need to perform. Pace slows the experience enough for sensation to emerge, deepen, and integrate. Together, they create the conditions for something rare. A return to the body as a place of meaning. Where sensation is not the destination but the doorway. To truth, to presence, to a quality of connection that cannot be performed, only felt.

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I believe this is teachable, and I'm currently developing this work into a practitioner training program for those who want to bring this approach into their own practice.

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Outside the room

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I'm a mother of two daughters, a dancer, a pianist, and a fluent Spanish speaker. My relationships,  friendships, loverships, personal intimacies, continue to shape and deepen my work in ways I couldn't have planned.

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I care deeply about creating beautiful environments. Every detail of the spaces I work in is considered. Light, texture, sound, atmosphere. That's my mother's café in me. In my practice, as in hospitality, the container is part of the gift.