I received my Master’s in Social Work from New York University in 2012 with a clinical focus in “evidence-based practice” for adults with severe and persistent mental illness. I then completed over 500 hours of classroom yoga teacher training at Sacred Sounds Yoga in Greenwich Village. In order to deepen my understanding of the energy body, I spent five years apprenticing as an assistant daily in the Mysore-style Ashtanga Yoga lineage with my teacher Michael Guiou.

In 2016, I took a course in “Ayurveda for Healthcare Practitioners” through the Maharishi Mahesh Association of America, focusing on ways the five elements - earth, water, fire, air, and space- affect our overall health.

In 2017, I took an introductory course in Gestalt Therapy, applying the lessons of my yoga studies into the therapeutic relationship once again. In 2018, in order to further my interest in updating old therapeutic modalities with the increased awareness of the impact of intersectionality and inter-subjectivity both outside and inside the therapy room, I did a one-year long Relational Psychoanalysis course - relearning theory while unlearning the frame of patriarchy, white supremacy, and classism inherent to the origins of therapeutic practice.

Most recently in 2022, I took another year long continuing education in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy through Integrative Psychiatry Institute continuing to explore consciousness and its impact on mental health, community, and spirituality.