Isabel is a licensed psychologist in Brazil where she kept a private practice and worked in clinical and institutional settings. She moved to the United States in 2007, working to deepen her experience at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. Early on she participated in various trainings with renowned teachers that deeply influenced her worldview, like Stanislav Grof, one of the founders of Transpersonal Psychology and researcher on non-ordinary states of consciousness, the historian and author Richard Tarnas, and Jungian analyst and author Jean Shinoda Bolen, among others. In 2014, Isabel took a deep dive into Buddhist practice and started to sit in long meditation retreats at Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Fairfax, California. Since then she has been committed to the study, practice, and sharing of Buddhism and Insight Meditation with the world.