Thank you for visiting my website. I am an author inspired to share my life story—my journey from El Salvador to Australia. As a migrant, refugee, father, grandfather, counsellor, and now writer, I write through the lens of lived experience.
My work reflects the trauma I endured during the 1980s and 90s under El Salvador’s military regime—persecution, torture, and unjust imprisonment for my humanitarian efforts with displaced families. Despite the suffering, I remain a humanist committed to nonviolence, justice, and truth.
Through my books, I aim to shed light on forgotten histories and inspire understanding and compassion for migrants and refugees.
The day after I walked my youngest daughter down the aisle for marriage, a deep feeling manifested inside me, that feeling was to write. I felt compelled to start writing about my journey and the lived experiences I had when I lived in El Salvador, prior I migrating to Australia in 1991. It was this feeling and drive that helped me write my very first book. Also, I wanted to tell the histories of my family for readers to know about what happened to my grandmother, my four cousins, and my niece, and their histories will not be forgotten, and their lives will live in the memoir for generations to come. And the illegal imprisonment of the mother of my children and me suffered by the Salvadoran Government in the 90s.
I provide a safe, compassionate, and trauma-informed space where healing can begin. Together, we will explore your experiences at a pace that feels right for you, helping you build resilience, restore a sense of safety, and reconnect with the strengths that support growth and recovery. I aim to help you move beyond survival and towards a life guided by hope, meaning, and empowerment.
Trauma may be part of your story, but it does not have to define your future. Healing happens through connection, courage, and the belief that change is possible.
I provide a safe and supportive space for couples to strengthen communication, navigate conflict, and deepen their connection. Together, we explore relationship patterns, develop practical skills, and build greater understanding so that both partners can feel heard, respected, and supported in their relationship.
Strong relationships are not built by avoiding challenges, but by learning how to face them together.
I provide a warm, compassionate, and supportive space for individuals experiencing anxiety and depression. Together, we will explore your challenges, develop practical coping strategies, and build resilience so that you can move towards greater confidence, balance, and emotional well-being.
You are not defined by your anxiety or depression. With support, understanding, and the right tools, it is possible to move from surviving to thriving.
“Accepting what happened doesn’t mean you don’t experience pain; it means you’re embracing your path to healing.” – Kyle Sanders
A migrant man lives in the Australian Capital Territory of Australia in ACT, mix city of bush and city where he lives with his family and work in mental health to helping those in need. He has moment of his past child, teenager and adult traumas, while he’s at work, on his hobbies and during his holidays camping with his family. These memories include his childhood and youth and when he became an adult. He is forced to critical thinking about his society and the justice system of his country, El Salvador, due to impunity when his grandmother is killed. He finds meaning and purpose a powerful force to helped him raise out of darkness and into healing and hope.
Transito, grandmother who was caring, loving and generous all her life, who is taken out of the migrant man’s life, by the military, when she was on her way to visit on her daughter, and she was left to die on the road for no reason other than tried to cross to road and was hit and run. She leaves without saying goodbye to her family and buried in a mass graved.
4 cousins, a group of young men who were part of the migrant man’s generation. They were in their 20 and mid 30s and have so much to live for including one of them who paid a big price with his life, because he celebrated the news of his girlfriend being pregnant of his very first child, and consequently, forgot a curfew and he’s life was taken by the military. All of them will forever live in the memories of the migrant man and in this memoir, their histories will be passed to generations to come.
