My Approach

• Trauma-informed & somatic (body-based): we look at how your body has been holding and wisely protecting you and where it’s ready to release stuckness and old patterns, first building a foundation of safety and agency within our relationship and the therapeutic space

• Compassionate: leading from the heart and tending toward strengths-based rather than deficits models of psychotherapy

• Neurodivergent-affirming & Queer-affirming: I honor different ways of thinking, learning, and being that may live outside of dominant, capitalist culture

• Cultural humility: Making space for cultural and racial differences to be present and encountered in the room

• Warm, real, & playful (when appropriate): I always seek to create a welcoming space, I keep it real, and I seek to bring in play and creativity whenever relevant so therapy doesn’t always have to be so damn heavy (though sometimes it just is)

My Story

From a young age, I have been a mover.

I always felt like I had more energy and emotions than my body could contain. Yoga was my entry point into psychotherapy, and I began the two practices simultaneously, weaving together body movement and mind movement to comprise my own therapeutic and healing process from an eating disorder, depression, and anxiety.

I am deeply shaped by my lived experience as a Jewish and Queer woman who is neurodivergent (or neuro-magical, as one of my clients calls it),, and by a desire to share in the journey into our inner landscapes and embodied wisdom through movement, nature-based practices, writing, and therapy. From the place of coming into my fullness, I show up as a facilitator and guide, where we move through holding patterns to claim the fullest expression of ourselves within our lived experience

I specialize in trauma-informed, body-based approaches to therapy, which is to say mental heath is also nervous system health.

I continue to be deeply connected and called to working with adolescents, while also working with adults, especially those who are caregivers, careworkers, and creatives. I now carry with me 14 years of experience working with youth and service providers/ caregivers in community-based settings including juvenile halls, therapeutic programs, and public schools. I’m keenly aware of the privilege I hold and the power I carry working in these spaces. I approach my work with teens and adults, from a relational-oriented and somatic/ body-based approach, seeking to restore the attachment patterns and nervous system’s rhythms which may have been disrupted by trauma and stressful live experiences. 

As I moved through life, I found myself yearning for a deeper experience of embodiment, and I knew there were parts of myself I wasn’t accessing through more conventional talk therapy, so I sought out a somatic practitioner. Somatic (body-based) therapy has become the modality in which I feel most at home as both client and practitioner — allowing me to be more fully with the discomfort, the uncertainty, the pain and the joy of my experience in my own body and in this life.

And so I’ve arrived as a fully self-actualized and transformed human.

Just kidding. I’ve learned that living is an ongoing process of arriving and becoming. Movement has truly been the medicine in my own healing and recovery journey. I’m grateful to all those who have guided and continue to guide me along this path and I’m moved to be able to offer this learning out to all those I accompany.