Integrative, Somatic Therapy, Rooted in Science and Advocacy

“Healing requires safety — the kind that lets your body exhale. Storytelling, co-regulation, and honest witnessing create the ground where repair can finally happen.”

My therapeutic philosophy combines academic study, professional experience, and lived encounters within the mental-health and medical systems. These experiences led me to focus on integrative, intersectional therapy that respects the body as a central part of psychological healing.

Formally trained in Western psychology, I’ve expanded my work beyond the limitations of a purely biomedical lens. My approach integrates trauma-informed psychotherapy, nervous-system regulation, and selected insights from contemplative and Eastern traditions - applied in grounded, evidence-based ways.

Before opening my private practice, I worked in education, advocacy, and public mental health services: advising maternal-health organizations, authoring the first maternal-health resolution adopted by the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and supporting adults with serious mental illness in New York City. I also served as an adjunct professor at The City College of New York, lecturing on attachment theory and child development.

I hold a Master of Arts in Psychology and am a licensed psychotherapist in New York and Connecticut. I live in the Hudson Valley with my daughter, where I’m continuing to learn what it means to make Good Trouble.