About Me:
With a personalized and integrative approach, I draw on my background as a mental health professional, yoga teacher, and community builder to shine a light on the ways our senses in the body can get overwhelmed, causing us to lose out on deep and meaningful presence and connection to ourselves, others, and the world around us. Together, you can unlearn stories about yourself, connect to your body’s innate intelligence, and redefine who you are, with the aim of experiencing a more expansive life filled with authenticity, meaning, play, and joy.
I was inspired to do this work by my own experience growing up in a religious community bubble, that taught me a rigid sense of identity and deep internalized shame, guilt, and anxiety over the desire to be my true, playful, and curious self. Through healing connections- books, music, snowboarding, yoga, therapy, psychedelics and friendships- I have found a way to both reclaim my authentic self and healing my nervous system from the impact of inherited trauma and burden of shame.
About my training background:
Postgraduate training includes Gestalt Therapy, Relational Psychoanalysis, Ayurveda for Healthcare Workers, and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. I hold a Master’s Degree in Social Work from New York University with a clinical focus. I’ve also completed over 500 hours of classroom yoga teacher training, alongside apprenticing as an assistant for five years in the Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga lineage with my teacher Michael Guiou. I am currently studying Somatic Experiencing, a modality that focuses on resolving symptoms of shock, stress, and trauma in the body, through slow and intentional exploration of the individual’s present moment experiences. These areas of interest have contributed to my understanding of the ways the energy body impacts our mental health and how our energy flows between us to create experiences of connection or disconnection.
