The 4-D Network is proud to spotlight Jacqueline Mendez!
Jacqui is a 4-D Network Mentor, AASECT certified sex therapist, and sex therapist supervisor.
She is also the founder of The Center for Relationship and Intimacy Well-Being that serves clients throughout California as well as Latinx Sex Therapy that supports sex education and sex therapy to the greater Latinx/Latine/Latina/Latino community. She is a regular contributor to various media platforms and podcasts such as the New York Times, Univision, Telemundo, Refinery 29, and Well + Good among others. Jacqueline is integrative and holistic in her approach weaving spiritual practices, multi-cultural rituals, and body-focused techniques with more traditional therapy modalities. Being a bicultural-bilingual AASECT Sex Therapy and Supervisor, Jacqueline is a fierce advocate for more Spanish-speaking/Latinx and clinicians of color to begin their journey as sex therapists. Jacqueline runs a 5-month 4-D women’s group twice yearly and training for those in the healing arts who want to learn more about 4-D Network.
1. What was your first introduction to the 4-D Wheel, and what motivated you to learn more?
Through many teachers, and having worked as a clinician in various settings, I was interested in how spirituality, the body, and sexuality are connected. These were areas of such paradox and seemed to contain the most pain and joy. I completed a Master’s in Spiritual Psychology with a framework based on body-heat-mind-spirit.
When I decided to pursue AASECT Sex Therapy Certification, I began to interview various mentors in the field. I shared with them my interest in integrating sex into body-heat-mind-spirit. Over and over, Gina Ogden came up in conversations.
Meeting Gina and her introduction to 4-D felt like I was finally getting the framework I had always wanted. It was food for my soul. It integrated body-heat-mind-spirit and it did in a whole-bodied manner. The Wheel is an invitation not just to talk about body-heat-mind-spirit, but to fully step in.
What led me to want to learn more about 4-D was the liminal, healing space that I experienced as a participant and seeing how quickly my clients could find peace with parts of their stories.
2. How do you use the 4-D Wheel, and what is your specialty?
My specialty with 4-D is facilitating wheels for individuals, couples, and groups using movement/body-centered modalities, religious/spiritual rituals, and archetypal processes. Two of my most favorite 4-D offerings are 5-month groups for women and day-long workshops for men.
3. What do you hope to do more of in the world using the 4-D Wheel as one of your tools to help heal people, and what is your vision or mission for this work?
My intention with 4-D is to use it as a powerful tool to support my clients, supervisees, and employees. I also want to celebrate the Wheel’s medicinal and indigenous roots as an extension of honoring my own ancestry. My vision is to bring 4-D to women of all color and creeds so together we can help heal transgenerational trauma and create more freedom for all.
If you are interested in connecting with Jacqueline, she can be found at JacquelineMendez.com
