About Me
Healing is a journey, a pilgrimage to health. It can be confusing, costly, and at times overwhelming. Learning and using Devina’s methods allows you to take steps on your healing path when and how you want to. Sometimes we need outside help, especially at the beginning of something new or when big changes occur. Devina teaches proven techniques that are easy to learn and integrate. People only need a single session to understand and start using these tools which take just a few minutes to find relief. Devina is blessed and honored to have had the experience of working with people from all over the world and from all walks of life.
She is a broad communicator, able to work well with a variety of clients based on her many decades of experience with different cultures and environments. Unique methods are needed to work with complex issues- now more than ever the demands of our lives make simple self-care that you can actually do, necessary. Without her even planning it, her entire life Devina has been training to be an effective communicator and healer.
From her early days growing up between the North and South Americas (learning and now fluent in both Spanish and English), to her later years spent bridging the East and West with her time living and working in Japan, Devina has truly global experience. Along her journeys, she experienced many healing methods which she integrates and uses to with her clients today. From airman to the healer, Devina needed to learn different healing modalities to help her find balance and emotional well-being.
A certified practitioner of many healing modalities including Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Reiki Master, Trauma Heartmath, Emei Qigong, and visual guided meditation, she works with clients around the globe virtually in both Spanish and English. It’s her honor and gift to help fill the gap of the intersections of different ways of life by working with BIPOC (as a female Latina), military (U.S. Air Force Veteran), and other underserved communities.
Empowering people by giving them the tools to manage their emotions through EFT and various other specialties, Devina offers a chance to take your healing into your own hands in order to find inner well-being and peace. Workshops are tailored to her audience and uniquely customized to individual needs. She is called to serve all and as a wounded healer connects to clients in a genuine way that allows a bond to grow and evolve.
My Background
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Honored Veteran
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Member of HeartMath Institute
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Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA)
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Bilingual (Spanish) & Multicultural
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Experience working with 23 countries
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B.S. Psychology
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M.S. International Relations
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Mastering Negotiations Certificate: Building Agreements Across Boundaries, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Certified EFT Practitioner
An emotional version of acupuncture wherein we stimulate certain meridian points by tapping on them with our fingertips. This addresses a new cause for emotional issues (unbalanced energy meridians). Properly done, this frequently reduces the therapeutic process from months or years down to hours or minutes. We often find that EFT provides astonishing results. EFT is easy to use and fun to learn and relieves the emotional charge, associated with the original stressor. EFT can be easily learned and self-applied once the basic technique is mastered. These techniques are at the forefront in the field of alternative therapies.
Reiki Master Practitioner and Teacher
Reiki is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing. It is administered by "laying on hands" and is based on the idea that an unseen "life force energy" flows through us and is what causes us to be alive. If one's "life force energy" is low, then we are more likely to get sick or feel stress, and if it is high, we are more capable of being happy and healthy.
Trauma-Sensitive HeartMath Certified Practitioner
HeartMath skill set in a trauma-sensitive manner to build client’s capacities for resilience, emotional regulation and reconnection with their sense of self-security and well-being. The tools, techniques, and overall HeartMath skill set are taught to be used as an adjunct to support and facilitate a variety of trauma-focused therapies to improve client symptoms associated with trauma. It is not meant to replace or be used in isolation for trauma processing. Heart intelligence with practical energy self-regulation techniques. Those certified are able to help others experience greater mental and emotional balance, composure, and intuitive flow.
Emei Qigong (Level II) Practitioner
Emei Qigong is a comprehensive system of Chan (Zen) Qigong that generates vital energy and leads to the attainment of ever-higher levels of awareness. The study and practice of Emei Qigong promote strong physical health, emotional balance, and spiritual development.
Guided Imagery Meditation Facilitator/Guide
Guided imagery is a type of focused relaxation or meditation. Focused relaxation involves concentrating on a specific object, sound, or experience in order to calm your mind. The goal is to promote a calm state through relaxation and mindfulness. The idea is that your body reacts to your own thoughts.