I lost my parents when I was eighteen months old. At that age, we don't have the resources to process such an extreme loss. My body responded by beginning a process of fragmentation that deepened as I experienced complex trauma. In my twenties, I felt simultaneously full of life and stuck in relationship patterns that caused me a lot of suffering. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was so afraid of losing people again that I kept loved ones at arm's distance and ran whenever things got too intimate or too difficult. I had learned to manage myself by trying to control myself. I didn't know what it was like to live with ease.

 

In my late twenties, when I came in contact with somatics and expressive arts, the story began to change. My body responded with relief, with understanding, with trust. I began to relate with myself, my life, and other people from my genuine desire for connection, rather than my fear of losing it.

 

It was my body that brought me back to myself, to my life, to my sense of agency, and to the possibility of experiencing meaningful, nourishing relationships.

 

Today, I love working with women who have been through similar hardship, who feel that there is more for them — more to life — while also feeling a bit stuck and unsure how to move forward. Many of my clients are high-achieving, sensitive, and curious women who sense that their bodies are wise and have things to say that go far beyond what intellectualizing their past could ever offer them.

 

I have been working with women and girls for a decade, harnessing the power of their creativity and intuition into the medicine they need to flourish and live full, meaningful lives as their whole, beautiful, authentic selves.

 

I am a somatic therapist and educator, working primarily with somatic movement and expressive arts. I am fully certified in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® (an expressive arts therapy methodology), registered as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator with ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association), and certified as a meditation and mindfulness teacher having studied both secular and Buddhist philosophies. I am currently studying Jungian depth psychology at the graduate level. My practice is also informed by studies in trauma, body-centered and depth psychology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Internal Family Systems, and embodied spirituality.

My work addresses both individual experiences and the spaces they inhabit, exploring the intersections between the personal and the collective. I celebrate diversity through a lens of cultural humility, feminism, and anti-discrimination, and am particularly passionate about sharing my work with women from diverse cultural backgrounds and with marginalized communities.

 

My style as a therapist is collaborative, reflective, and imaginative, rooted in fostering growth that aligns with each client's personal values and desires. I have worked with women from their early twenties to their mid-eighties, with cancer patients, at-risk teens, and elderly populations affected by dementia.

 

My own breast cancer diagnosis in 2023 deepened my understanding of the essential role of the body in healing and living well.

 

I lean on an intentional and inclusive ethic of care to create healing spaces and foster meaningful connections through transformative offerings.