It would be selfish of me to hold back from sharing my experience…I truly can't sing Jorge's praises any louder.

- L.C.

  • I am a 35 year old male working in tech. During a period of very high stress in my life, I suddenly started experiencing psychotic breaks and auditory hallucinations. I was terrified, as I had never experienced these symptoms before in my life. I quickly sought help through any avenue available to me, including online therapy sites and a local hospital. Most of the treatments quickly labeled me, handed me prescriptions, and moved on. The experience felt impersonal and rigid.

    Fortunately, I eventually connected with Jorge. Jorge's somatic approach and empathetic nature made the healing process feel like I had joined a team specifically designed to investigate and work on my symptoms. The combination of Western, Eastern, and Indigenous approaches with wholesome traditional teachings turned out to be the perfect mix for me. I am delighted to say that after six months of working with Jorge, I am symptom-free - an outcome the other treatments I tried had predicted might never happen.

  • I am a 36-year-old professional man working in Tech. I've always been anxious and struggled with motivation/purpose and concentration, going through a depression every few years (usually triggered by stagnating at work). I was feeling stuck and unhappy and overthinking everything, which was negatively impacting most areas of my life. I had been doing talk therapy for the last 2 years but I don't think it helped much. I couldn’t feel my emotions well and it became just an intellectual conversation. I highly recommend working with Jorge. Over the past 6 months, I've done weekly therapy and 2 journeys, and have seen tremendous progress on some long-standing challenges.

    I've started to feel a positive emotional shift for the first time in 2 years, despite trying other types of therapy. After my 2nd journey especially, I found myself opening towards my emotions, enabling me to make positive changes in my life and break some negative patterns. In particular, I've felt an increased sense of ease and effortlessness as I go about my day. This seems to have unlocked a level of energy that I have not felt in many years, and which I thought was lost due to aging into my mid-thirties. I have found the stamina to do multiple physically and mentally demanding activities in a day, which I didn't think was possible for me.

    I have also developed a better relationship with my work. For a long time, I have been paralyzed by overthinking, procrastination, and doubt. This has relaxed a lot, allowing me to get more done while still having energy for other aspects of my life. At times Jorge has also taken on more of a coach-like role, which I have also found extremely valuable. For example, he identified some activities and events near me that he thought I might enjoy, and gently encouraged me to go. This was the little extra push I needed to try a potential hobby I'd been hesitating over for months, leading to me discovering something new that I'm now passionate about. Jorge is reliable and is always very present and engaged during sessions. I sense that he really wants to help people and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend him to anyone looking to feel better.

  • I am a 35-year-old woman struggling with a spiritual emergency, anxiety, trauma, and body dysmorphia. Jorge is the healer equivalent of a “yes, and” — he is both a bodyworker and an energy worker, a medicine man, and a future elder. Jorge’s approach was uniquely set up for what I needed. His intuitive touch helps move material that is stuck and blocked, always helping me leave feeling more whole and complete than when I walked in. I’ve sent countless kindreds his way, and they all deeply appreciate the referral to someone so attuned and attentive. I’m very grateful to have Jorge as a resource and support system along the path — he is a forever constant amidst a sea of variables.

  • I am a 25 year old queer female. Working with Jorge has been a great experience. I came to him looking for help with my chronic migraines, and not knowing what to expect. Jorge helped me to figure out what I wanted to get out of our work together, and has always helped guide me when I’m not sure what would be most helpful while always listening when I want to direct our work. I didn’t expect the depth of the work we would be doing, and it hasn’t always been easy, but Jorge has been incredibly supportive the whole time, and I feel incredibly safe and comfortable with him. I’ve gotten a lot out of this experience—both a reduction in my symptoms and more peace around how I feel about my illness. I would highly recommend working with Jorge.

  • I am a 41-year-old man and professional city planner. I have been struggling with anxiety, fear, and depression for most of my adult life. I also struggled with social anxiety and maintaining intimate relationships.  I have found Jorge to be a strong, insightful, and loving guide to the intense and often chaotic world of my feelings. I had been struggling to integrate powerful psychedelic experiences from working with other facilitators. After a few months of working together, he has been expertly able to focus me on where emotions are in my body so that I can sit with and befriend those emotions to create inner peace and gain sovereignty in my world. He has built trust by being open and honest and has inspired confidence in me to pursue deep internal journeys. During our first journey, he provided me with a safe space in which I could experience the full range of emotions that I needed to feel. He was attentive, alert, and thorough and I am still deriving insights from the experience. I’m very happy to have met him at this point in my life.

  • I am a 42 year old female hairstylist who came to this work after hitting a wall in traditional talk therapy. I have a history of complex trauma and sexual abuse that completely derailed my sense of self over time. By all external measures, the years I spent in therapy helped me "move forward" and accomplish some tangible things. But internally I was stuck. I repeatedly hit up against debilitating emotional pain I could never break through. I sank into a deep depression and words like "hope" and "happiness" became laughably naïve and meaningless.

    Jorge changed the game for me with his somatic approach. He listens to your experiences and, at the same time, guides you gently to meet the sensations, reactions and wisdom in your own body. I've always prided myself on being in-tune with my body and emotions, but our work together showed me just how disconnected I had become. I became viscerally aware of how the same stuck-ness I was experiencing in my life was being mirrored in my physical sensations (or sometimes, a numbed-out lack thereof). Jorge's guidance created the safety I needed to be able to access the pain I had been carrying. I could finally work with it, rather than endlessly intellectualize it. I was also able to have agency over the process and work at the pace and depth I felt ready for in each session. Jorge creates the kind of space where you will be honored no matter where you’re at.

    I have worked with Jorge regularly over the past year and have completed three journeys. Even after the very first one, my friends, family and clients commented on the positive changes in me. I am more myself now than I have been in years. I am lighter. I have welcomed in life changes I thought were lost to me (entered a beautiful romantic partnership after a decade-long drought, made career moves, deepened friendships and became socially active again). I owe gratitude to the medicine and even to my own efforts, but it's Jorge who cleared the path for me with wisdom, patience and a light heart. He is living his calling as a guide and it is my great fortune to have found him.

  • I am a doctor who has worked with Jorge. Covid impacted me severely, causing me to face questions of mortality for the first time in my life. I was also faced with the ending of a romantic relationship that meant a lot to me. Both those experiences made me realize I hadn't taken enough time to understand myself. Jorge helped me on several journeys into my unconscious to better accept and understand it. I feel I’m in a profoundly better place than before and I attribute it to the relationship with Jorge himself, as well as the multiple preparation and integration sessions we had together.

  • My work with Jorge over the last 4 months has led me to new depths of my being. Each session has felt like a journey unto itself—a really interesting and unique mix of modalities. The way he combines somatic experiencing, hakomi, and psychedelic integration techniques creates a multilayered field of discovery and expansion. I find Jorge's presence to be grounded while open, warm while authentic, curious while perceptive. I have done a lot of therapy and coaching over the years, and I can honestly say I've never felt as safe or as seen in a healing container as I do with Jorge. He holds the energetic grid so completely and with so much attunement, that even the moments of silence between us feel steeped in meaning. As a fellow healer and facilitator, I find our work together to be alchemical both personally and professionally—what more could I ask for?! That I have expanded my knowledge of certain principles, parables, and practices of buddhadharma through our work is just the cherry on top. I am so grateful.