Your Spanish materials, verified by a clinician.

Why it matters

The errors are the kind you can't see.

Machine translation of mental-health content fails in specific, predictable ways: idiom, register, stigma, reading level, and crisis instructions.

Those are exactly the failures a monolingual reviewer cannot catch, and exactly the ones that matter most — a consent form that reverses the meaning of a right, a safety line that sends someone to the wrong number.

Roughly one in five people in the United States speaks Spanish at home, and Spanish-speaking clients consistently report preferring care and materials in their first language.

What I do

The process.

1. You send your materials. Intake packets, consents, psychoeducation handouts, worksheets, aftercare instructions, website or newsletter copy. Template documents only — never client records.
2. AI-assisted first draft. Translated into neutral, accessible Spanish at an appropriate health-literacy reading level, using a glossary maintained for your practice.
3. Clinical and cultural review. I read every line for clinical accuracy, culturally responsive framing, regional appropriateness, and exact safety language — crisis lines, emergency instructions, anything a client might act on.
4. Back-translation check. Standard practice in health translation: the Spanish is independently translated back to English and compared against your original.
5. Delivery with a signed statement. Formatted to match your original, with a signed statement of clinician review for your records.

Who reviews it

Not just bilingual.

My undergraduate degree is in Hispanic Civilization and Linguistics. My clinical training is a master's in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Northwestern.

That combination is the whole point. Language training alone catches grammar and register but not clinical meaning. Clinical training alone catches meaning but not the idiom a Cuban client in Tampa will actually use, or the word that carries stigma in one country and none in another. This work needs both, in one reader.

I also see Spanish-speaking clients in my own practice, which means these documents get judged against how people actually talk in the room.

Language access

Where this fits in your process.

Under the 2024 final rule implementing Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, entities that receive federal financial assistance must have machine translation reviewed by a qualified human translator when the text is critical to a person's rights, benefits, or meaningful access, when accuracy is essential, or when the material is complex or technical.

Cost

Starting points.

Every set of documents is different, so these are starting points rather than fixed prices. Send me what you have and I'll quote it.