christie is an integrative therapist in brooklyn

Hi! I’m Christie (she/her). I enjoy co-creating the everyday conditions for more clarity, choice, and connection, inside and out.

My integrative and invitational practice brings together contemporary mind-body-relationship psychotherapy, traditional healing arts, and movements for transformative mental health.

Learn more about my offerings.

  • Within a growing movement for diverse, collective, life-affirming approaches to mental health and wellbeing, I cultivate my therapy practice around shared values including self-determination, agency, resource sharing, and systemic transformation.

    In practice, I draw from both licensed/clinical and peer/community based education and experience with the aim to adapt a variety of concepts and tools to patient experience, needs, and preferences rather than the other way around. I hope to equip you to develop your own framework for shifting unwelcome patterns and states of being in your chosen direction. Above all, what we do in therapy should resonate with you.

    Find me on Psychology Today & Manhattan Alternative.

  • I share enjoyable and useful prompts and practices for body-mind balance, connection, and harmonization. My central intention is to allow you to meet yourself where you are, follow your experience, build your toolkit, and gently develop a felt or integral sense of receptivity, understanding, and guidance according to your own values and motivations.

    I came to somatic and body based therapy from lifelong immersion in yoga practice and tradition as indigenous spiritual science. I continue to learn within collective, matrilineal lineages, in solidarity with decolonial struggles toward the liberation of yoga as a liberation tool.

  • Trauma survivors deserve chosen and comprehensive care that allows us to center ourselves on our own terms. My work is non-invasive‍, ‍non-pathologizing, and non-carceral, shaped by years of mutual aid, peer support, and transformative organizing with different survivor-led communities. I often work with people who have experienced and/or continue to experience varying degrees of control, abuse, and oppression in relationships, groups, and systems, including cults.

    Trauma is about people and inherently political. I strive to take part in building a better world by advancing community supports, popular education, anti-racism, queer, trans, & women-of-color feminism, disability justice, harm reduction, abolition (including borders), and land back. I see tending to ourselves in and out of therapy as integral to collective care, resistance, and liberation.

As a longtime practitioner, I stay inspired with collaborative learning based in vast and interconnected healing traditions. I also love to cook, knit, read poetry, and be in nature.

I hope we get to work together!

“Christie’s healing work came to me at a crucial time. I was struggling to heal from multiple traumatic experiences, though I was trying many different approaches. Christie was affirming, gentle, and immediately made me feel safe. She has a soft touch while helping to navigate through intense emotions and memories. The practices Christie has taught me to use on my own have provided results I never thought possible. I have learned so much and I use tools every day that I can attribute to the work we’ve done together. Without Christie’s support, I know I would have kept struggling for much much longer. Thank you for sharing your gifts!”

“Christie has an amazing ability to tune into my needs and provide gentle and nourishing support in the most graceful way. She is my favorite yoga teacher and talk therapist! She can skillfully weave both practices together, which is a wonderfully healing and integrating experience for the body, mind, and spirit.”

“I feel lucky to have found Christie. She is a humble ever evolving teacher sharing a truly embodied practice. Christie has guided me into self-inquiry and conscious rest. Practices that lead towards the priceless path of self-awareness and knowledge. Christie’s profound understanding of what a safe space is, combined with her unconstricted yet very grounded approach towards traditional teachings in the contemporary world, creates the conditions to contemplate our own experiences along the path of practice with less resistance.”