Hello, I’m Lisette. Congratulations! If you are reading this it means you have taken the first step in seeking support for your mental well-being. Perhaps you are struggling with day-to-day stresses, anxiety, overwhelming sadness and depression or have some past trauma that is interfering with your present experience. Whatever the reason, the fact that you recognize you would benefit from professional guidance means you desire to be the best version of you! I would be honoured to continue helping you on this journey. But before we begin, I would like to share a little about myself to help you decide if I am a good fit for what you are looking for.

I have over 25 years of experience in the social service and mental health fields. The experience includes working with foster care children, family work for the Children and Youth Department, working with homeless families, and providing therapy in an urban high school with at-risk adolescents. I loved working with this population most, perhaps because I realized that I would have benefitted from guidance and support when I was a teen. My story is not unique but my journey certainly is. I am a Latina born to teen parents that arrived to the states from Puerto Rico. My first language is Spanish. I grew up poor in the inner city and moved around a lot after my parents separated. I witnessed my father’s alcohol abuse, domestic violence, and my mother’s depression as she struggled to raise two young daughters on her own while trying to get an education herself. All of this before the age of 8! I survived the only way I knew how – I focused on doing well at school, which paid off. For high school, I was fortunate to receive a full scholarship to study at a prestigious boarding school and also studied abroad for a year. This experience had its pros and cons. It allowed me to see the world and to realize there was much more to life than what I experienced as a child.