Where science,
the body, and
meaning meet
Dr. Rivera-Negrón practices at the intersection of two worlds that are too rarely brought together: the precision of psychiatric medicine and the depth of somatic, trauma-informed, and meaning-centered healing. She does not believe that a prescription alone can restore a person to themselves — and she has built her entire practice around that conviction.
What distinguishes this practice is its foundational orientation: the understanding that symptoms are not simply malfunctions to be corrected, but meaningful expressions of a person’s history, neurobiology, and inner life. Dr. Rivera-Negrón integrates EMDR, clinical hypnosis, ACT, somatic approaches, and trauma-sensitive yoga not as supplementary techniques, but as core elements of a unified, rigorously individualized model of care — one in which the full complexity of the person is both the starting point and the guide.
Her work is particularly attuned to the suffering of high-achieving individuals — physicians, professionals, caregivers — who have learned to function through pain, and who are ready to stop surviving and begin living. She is a dual board-certified psychiatrist who speaks English and Spanish, and sees patients exclusively via telehealth in Puerto Rico.