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

Beneath the internal and external noise, there is a still, yet alive place I like to call the POND (Place Of No Distractions). It took me leaving mine over and over again through self-abandonment and self-destructive patterns to finally return back home to the Pond. That is the place from which I guide you, and the place from which I aim to live.

Growing up in Silicon Valley, I learned to live from the head and to achieve , yet I was a deeply feeling, sensory-seeking kid who felt like a (pisces) fish out of water in this environment. I learned to keep pushing through and striving all the way through to my early 30s. This mind-body-spirit disconnect led to me seriously burning out at several points along my path and being gravely disconnected from my body and my voice. While in social work graduate school and working for 14 years in community-based mental health, I yearned for a more grounded and alive way of being. I turned to the traditions of mindfulness, Buddhism, and somatics (body-based practices) beginning in 2012.

I am also 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 more 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 now connect to my clients from this place: recognizing something needs to change, some pattern(s) need to be interrupted, and wanting to come into a more present, alive, and whole-hearted way of living. By returning to the body, we can tap into your wisdom, your aliveness, and your true self for you and within your relationships. I love to work with creatives, fellow recovering over-achievers, caregivers/ parents, neurodivergent folks, queer folks, and teens and I also offer parent-teen & family sessions.