My name is Yerina &

I am a psychotherapist.

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I came to this work through an extended experience of chronic pain and disability. I had to let go of the previous work and life that I loved; and I have come to know in my bones the pain of loss, but also the gifts of grief in softening our certainties and opening life in unimagined directions. 

I am multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-lingual (fluent in English, Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish), and a global nomad who is creating a home in California. I intimately know what it is like to hold multiple identities, be in transition, and creatively live into meaning and belonging when neither is certain.

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The question that has animated my life's work is: How do we create lives of genuine thriving? I carried that question through my work with social movements and media, and now I bring it into the therapy room. I believe, deeply, that we need one another to heal — individually and collectively —and that continues to be the foundation of my work. 

My style has been described as warm, direct, collaborative, and poetic. I work with couples, teens and individual adults, and I have also led workshops, group therapy, and retreats.