About Me
I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a graduate of Smith School for Social Work. I provide psychotherapy to adults and adolescents in the Bay Area. Originally trained in the psychodynamic tradition, I integrate mindfulness, body awareness, nature-connection, and the expressive arts into my practice. I am trained in several somatic modalities (Hakomi Method, Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction, and Somatic Attachment Therapy) that use mindfulness and body awareness as the groundwork for insight and growth. I am also a certified Ecotherapist, and nurture our interconnection with nature as integral to healing ourselves and our world. I commonly work with people in resolving anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, and relationship issues, and my areas of expertise include embodiment, self love, women’s empowerment, holistic health, and rites of passage. My approach to healing draws from my own personal practices in yoga, dance, vocalization, earth-based spirituality, holding ritual space, and connecting with nature. I orient my work toward understanding interconnection, resourcing resilience, aligning with liberation and standing for social justice. I bring creativity, compassionate witness, and clear communication to my relationships, and I hold space for the wisdom within to guide.
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My Story
Many of my most impactful healing experiences and insights have come through the creative process, deeply embedded in a moment of movement, vocalization, dreamwork, humbling myself to the redwoods, or surrendering to the ocean. Integrating these inspirational experiences through conversation and witness with another person has been an essential element for me in clarifying, crystalizing, and solidifying the raw ore of experience into something of substance: strong, foundational, and of lasting value.
To join others in this exquisite dance of self-discovery is what brings me here.
I have always known in my bones the importance of the body in psychological healing. I remember falling in love with dance, discovering the deep well of my voice, shaking trauma like a physical thing out of my limbs. Over time and through my studies of the brain and human consciousness, these simple pleasures have deepened into a rooted reverence for embodiment and a passion to support others in their own healing and internal integrity. Feeling, healing, and learning by way of being in my body is the lifelong lesson that most directly connects me to my purpose.
I chose to become a psychotherapist through the field of social work because of my core value in social justice. The systems perspective foundational to this field expands the conversation of psychology by connecting the dots of the individual psyche to its cultural context, socio-political positionality, and the systems of power that impact personhood.
I am because we are.
Through this work, my passionate belief in the body as our primary tool for healing has only deepened, and broadened to include the earth body as well. Somatic psychotherapy expands the conversation further by holding the mind in the context of the body, and Ecotherapy goes further still by holding all of our bodies, minds, and societies in context of our living environment.
All three approaches center wholeness.
To understand ourselves as part of a greater whole restores our wholeness.
In this spirit, I pursued training in somatic psychotherapy (including Hakomi Method, Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction, and Somatic Attachment Therapy) and have become a certified Ecotherapist. Creativity and play are vital resources that shape how I show up as a therapist, as well as meaning-making through narrative, ritual, and story-telling. Connecting to the earth — locating myself in my natural environment and building a relationship of curiosity, caring, and shared destiny — is foundational to my personal life and practice.
What I offer is a tapestry of all these threads
— a living breathing weaving of body, breath, story --
sound and ground.
To join others in this exquisite dance of self-discovery is what brings me here.
I have always known in my bones the importance of the body in psychological healing. I remember falling in love with dance, discovering the deep well of my voice, shaking trauma like a physical thing out of my limbs. Over time and through my studies of the brain and human consciousness, these simple pleasures have deepened into a rooted reverence for embodiment and a passion to support others in their own healing and internal integrity. Feeling, healing, and learning by way of being in my body is the lifelong lesson that most directly connects me to my purpose.
I chose to become a psychotherapist through the field of social work because of my core value in social justice. The systems perspective foundational to this field expands the conversation of psychology by connecting the dots of the individual psyche to its cultural context, socio-political positionality, and the systems of power that impact personhood.
I am because we are.
Through this work, my passionate belief in the body as our primary tool for healing has only deepened, and broadened to include the earth body as well. Somatic psychotherapy expands the conversation further by holding the mind in the context of the body, and Ecotherapy goes further still by holding all of our bodies, minds, and societies in context of our living environment.
All three approaches center wholeness.
To understand ourselves as part of a greater whole restores our wholeness.
In this spirit, I pursued training in somatic psychotherapy (including Hakomi Method, Mindfulness-Based Stress-Reduction, and Somatic Attachment Therapy) and have become a certified Ecotherapist. Creativity and play are vital resources that shape how I show up as a therapist, as well as meaning-making through narrative, ritual, and story-telling. Connecting to the earth — locating myself in my natural environment and building a relationship of curiosity, caring, and shared destiny — is foundational to my personal life and practice.
What I offer is a tapestry of all these threads
— a living breathing weaving of body, breath, story --
sound and ground.