STUFF YOUR FACE WITH FOOD, LOVE AND DESIRE
Women have learned that it's normal to starve — emotionally and physically. We're expected to settle for crumbs, which is what sustains diet culture and dating culture.
My mission in this life is to accompany women in taking up space after trauma. To relearn that hunger is not acceptable, and to demand satisfaction, connection, and pleasure.
I want to contribute to women's whole health, to building freer and more conscious relationships, and to a more human understanding of trauma. I want more women who are free and full of life.
STUFF YOUR FACE WITH FOOD, LOVE AND DESIRE
Women have learned that it's normal to starve — emotionally and physically. We're expected to settle for crumbs, which is what sustains diet culture and dating culture.
My mission in this life is to accompany women in taking up space after trauma. To relearn that hunger is not acceptable, and to demand satisfaction, connection, and pleasure.
I want to contribute to women's whole health, to building freer and more conscious relationships, and to a more human understanding of trauma. I want more women who are free and full of life.
- 8+
- years in practice
- 700+
- people & couples supported
- 1
- published journal
“True audacity begins when we stop asking permission to exist and to live our own lives loudly and fully.”
Writing
Helping women take up space, one text at a time
I write on Substack in English and Spanish and I published the journal Entre Citas — two ways the work on women's mental health, relationships, and trauma are accessible to you.
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My journal
Entre Citas
A guided therapeutic journal to keep the work going between sessions — prompts, tools, and space to think on the page.
Buy on AmazonBooks I recommend
A curated list of books I often suggest in session and beyond.
Podcast
The Pink Hotline
A podcast where we talk about life and I remind you who you are and what you're capable of.
Where I've been a guest
Conversations I've joined on other podcasts.
Including episodes with guests like Debi Nova.
Para Mañana es Tarde
In their words
What clients share
It's a little hard to put into words because you're MAGIC haha. I think the biggest impact was that no matter how big or small, strange or complex something was, you already knew it, you already understood it, I never had to explain myself. Walking into your office was walking into being myself; I'd leave every session wanting to be my best version, simply because you always believed I could be. That intentional patient-therapist frequency you bring is what turned my life 180 degrees. Thanks to you I'm a fulfilled mom, I'm a mom! I'm fulfilled! The two things I never believed I'd be in that first session we had. Thank you Mijal, truly, for changing my life with your therapy — so intentional, informed, and somehow WAY too efficient haha. You're magic, love you ♥️♥️♥️
The impact you've had on my life has been incredible — your support literally changed my life, how I relate to others, and how I learned to set limits and respect them! I wouldn't be half the person I am without those years of help you gave me! I'll be grateful to you for the rest of my life!
Working with Mijal means entering a safe, compassionate space where you can work through the hard stuff, feel you have the most professional guidance — always keeping up to date — and trust that the person in front of you won't stop until she finds the best path. As I see it, I owe her my life: the one she helped me rescue, and the one I still have left to live.
You helped me realize I was in survival mode and build — and actually use — a toolbox.
How I work
A systemic-constructionist approach
I work from a systemic-constructionist approach, which understands that what happens to us doesn't occur in isolation, but within our relationships, histories, and contexts. In therapy, we explore how we've learned to understand ourselves and our experiences, and we open space to build new ways of relating, of understanding our story, and of living.
Curiosity
I understand curiosity as a fundamental tool in therapy: rather than assuming we already know why something happens, we approach the experience with open questions and without judgment.
Social context & life history
Who you are is shaped by relationships, culture, and the story you've lived. We make sense of the present in that wider context.
A safe space
Therapy needs to feel safe enough to be honest. I hold a space where you can show up exactly as you are, at your own pace.
Clinical practice
Individual & couples therapy
Individual therapy
Couples therapy
Workshops & talks
Consulting
All sessions are virtual.
Want to start therapy?
Email me and we'll talk about how I can support you. All sessions are virtual.
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