Within a growing movement for diverse, collective, life-affirming approaches to mental health and wellbeing, I facilitate therapy sessions that center your experience and how your body-mind accesses stability and ease in the world. My approach is slow, gentle, and intended to equip you to learn from yourself and choose your direction, again and again. Above all, what we do in therapy should resonate with you.

While my clinical background is focused on trauma and related afflictions, common explorations in session orient around balancing body-mind response-abilities and finding new equilibrium with past, present, and future:

• feelings & needs, inertia & impulse, states & patterns,

• stories & meaning making, values & motivations,

• relationships & roles, boundaries & communication, trust & intimacy,

• transitions & adjustments, courage, decision making,

• belonging, culture, power, purpose, direction, and more.

As a licensed social worker, I orient my work in the culmination and cultivation of shared experiences and values including self-determination, embodied wisdom, resource sharing, and systemic transformation.

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I came to somatic or body based therapy from in the therapeutic yoga tradition of Sri T. Krishnamacharya, wherein yoga is adapted to the individual rather than vice versa. I started teaching in Los Angeles in 2006 and went on to host classes, sessions, workshops, and trainings full time throughout Brooklyn and Manhattan. I’ve been online since 2020 and continue to study, practice, and share yoga as a collective, matrilineal, and indigenous spiritual science in solidarity with decolonial struggles toward the liberation of yoga as a liberation tool.

I hope to offer enjoyable and useful prompts and practices for breath-body balance in a precise yet open way. My style is often described as soft and generous. I teach from my own practice, which usually allows me to gain a felt sense of receptivity, integrity, equanimity, and guidance from within, all toward becoming more steadily at ease in the world right now. I offer yoga primarily one-on-one in order to tailor traditional practices to your unique inquiries and intentions.

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Many of the people I support are navigating how trauma shows up within the body-mind and out in the world, across experiences, relationships, groups, systems, places, and generations, past, present, and future.

My therapeutic approach tends toward centering lived experience and transforming the adaptive functions of trauma behind unwelcome stressors, symptoms, and struggles. I encourage ongoing inquiries and open feedback as we collaborate to develop your personal framework in and out of session.

As a liberation-focused practitioner well-versed in control, abuse, and oppression, I aim to reject and resist the power-over dynamics of the mental health industrial complex. My approach is non-invasive‍, ‍non-pathologizing, and non-carceral, shaped by years of mutual aid, peer support, and transformative organizing with different survivor-led communities.

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 self healing as integral to collective care, resistance, and liberation.