Ancestral Ways

I am a curandero. That is where this starts.

My practice as a traditional healer is rooted in Belize, in the land and the medicine and the people who taught me that healing is not something you do to someone. It is something you do with them, and it requires honesty, relationship, and a willingness to look at what is actually wrong rather than what is easiest to fix. That understanding has shaped everything else I do.

Over the years, that “everything else” has taken many forms. Academic advising with first-generation students navigating systems that were not built for them. Training and facilitation work with healthcare teams, global organizations, and leaders trying to build cultures that actually hold people. Inclusion and diversity work at institutions like Cal Poly, NASA, and Kimberly-Clark, where the gap between stated values and lived experience is often the most important thing in the room. Career counseling and executive coaching with individuals at turning points, trying to figure out what comes next and what they are willing to carry forward. The thread running through all of it is the same one that runs through healing work: paying attention to root causes, honoring what people bring with them, and believing that real change is relational before it is operational.

I founded Ancestral Ways because I kept finding that the most important conversations, about burnout, about belonging, about what it costs people to show up inside broken cultures, were not happening in the places where they needed to happen most. This site is my attempt to have those conversations in public, to bring the healer’s lens into spaces that usually only speak the language of strategy and performance, and to make the case that ancestral wisdom has something real to offer modern organizations.

I am based in Las Vegas, Nevada, and rooted in Belize. I hold a Master of Science in Higher Education Counseling and Student Affairs from California Polytechnic State University, and I am a Certified Career Counselor and Cultural Intelligence (CQ) Certified Facilitator. Those credentials matter to some of the rooms I work in. But they are tools, not the point. The point is the work.

If you want to get in touch, you can reach me at [email protected].