My name is Yerina. I am multi-cultural, multi-racial and multi-lingual (English, Spanish, Norwegian and Swedish), 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.

I came to this work through an extended period 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. 

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My life's animating question is how can we create lives of thriving? I moved from asking this question in my work with social movements and media, and now I bring it to the therapy room. I believe that we need each other to heal and thrive, both individually and collectively, and that continues to be the foundation of my work.