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’ve also developed programs in yoga and social-emotional learning (SEL) with schools alongside working as a somatic practitioner and therapist.

I continue to be deeply connected and called to working with youth and adolescents, while also working with adults, especially those who are caregivers/ careworkers. I now carry with me 12 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 youth 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. Sometimes I do wish there was an estimated time of arrival so we could plan a bit more in advance. But 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. For me, movement is therapy and therapy is movement.