Blanca’s Story
Founder of Ayafes • Co-founder IFS Guide • Certified Level 3 IFS Practitioner • Devoted student of Spirit
My name is Blanca
I specialize in guiding people into deeper truth — helping them meet the Parts of themselves they’ve spent a lifetime managing, judging, or trying to outrun.
What shapes my work most, though, isn’t only professional training — it’s my lived experience.
For years, my life looked “perfect” on the outside, while inside I was holding anxiety, self-harm, rage, and self-abandonment behind very strong protectors. My healing began not through force, but through curiosity — finally meeting the Parts of me I had pushed away since childhood. That path led me to IFS Therapy, and later to the sacred medicine of the Amazon.
Today, my work bridges psychotherapy, intuition, and the depth of sacred medicine traditions — always grounded in safety, integrity, and the natural unfolding of your system.
Master’s degree from Harvard University.
Fluency in both English and Spanish.
Trained directly by Dr. Richard Schwartz, the founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy.
My Story
The Story I Thought Was True
For most of my life, I believed I had a “normal” childhood.
I was disciplined, high-achieving, composed — the kind of person who looked completely fine on the outside.
Only later did I understand that what I called strength was actually a system of protectors: numbing, avoiding, staying busy, pushing through.
They had been carrying feelings of worthlessness, not belonging, and not deserving to live since I was very young.
How My Healing Began — by Accident
My healing journey started unintentionally, guided only by curiosity.
My partner was researching mental health for a startup, and I joined him in exploring different modalities just for fun. That’s when we stumbled upon Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy. The moment I read the first article, something inside me recognized it instantly.
Then I listened to a meditation by Dr. Richard Schwartz. Within minutes, I found answers I had been searching for for years. That moment changed the direction of my life.
The Inner Language I Had Been Waiting For
IFS became the language my inner world had been needing — a way to finally meet the Parts of me I had spent a lifetime managing or suppressing.
Through the work, I accessed childhood trauma I had never been able to reach before. Memories surfaced with emotional and physical weight my body had carried for decades.
These experiences softened me, humbled me, and taught me what true healing feels like:
not forcing change, but meeting yourself with honesty and compassion.
The Calling Toward the Amazon
Later, my path led me to the Amazon, where I studied with traditional lineages in Peru and Brazil.
Through ceremony, I uncovered trauma I didn’t consciously remember — experiences from early childhood that my body held long before my mind could name them.
That revelation, and the years of learning that followed, deepened my reverence for sacred medicine and expanded my capacity to hold others through subtle, complex, and profound healing.
A Practice Rooted in Lived Experience
This work is not just my profession — it is the path I walk every single day.
- I receive IFS sessions weekly.
- I continue studying with my mentor.
- I return to the Amazon each year to learn from the plants and the wisdom keepers who guide this work.
Everything I offer comes from that place:
from doing the work myself, from knowing its depth, and from trusting the innate wisdom within every person I sit with.