christie is an integrative therapist in brooklyn

Hi! I’m Christie (she/her). I enjoy lending support to self-healing that co-creates the conditions for more clarity, choice, and connection, inside & out.

My integrative and invitational approach to psychotherapy incorporates mind-body-relationship modalities grounded in traditional healing arts, movements for transformative mental health, and over a decade of teaching therapeutic yoga full time here in NYC.

Learn more about my offerings.

As a longtime independent practitioner, I stay inspired with ongoing learning and collaborations based in vast & interconnected healing traditions.

I also love to cook, knit, read, and be in nature.

I hope we get to work together!

  • Within a growing movement for diverse, collective, life-affirming approaches to mental health and wellbeing, my practice orients itself in basic values including autonomy, self-determination, resource sharing, and systemic transformation.

    While drawing from education and experience with a variety of psychodynamic (conscious-unconscious, past-present), somatic (body-mind), and relational (communicative) frameworks, I aim to collaborate with you to adapt non-invasive and non-pathologizing concepts and tools to your experience, preferences, and needs rather than the other way around.

    Find me on Psychology Today and Manhattan Alternative.

  • I share an inquiry-based and intentional approach to body-mind connection, balance, and harmonization that allows you to meet yourself where you are, follow your experience, and develop your own process aligned with your self-understanding as it evolves.

    I came to somatic or “body-based” psychotherapy from lifelong immersion in yoga and embodied healing arts, or collective open systems based in experiential wisdom, multi-cultural spiritual sciences, and decolonization. I continue to offer virtual therapeutic yoga sessions, workshops, and mentorship to practitioners worldwide.

  • Along with clinical education and experience, my approach to trauma care has been shaped by mutual aid and transformative organizing with different survivor-led communities, and traditional healing arts based in mind-body connection. However trauma shows up for you, and whatever your healing inquiries and intentions, I center you as the expert of your own experience.

    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, abolition (including borders), and land back. I see caring for ourselves as foundational for collective care, resistance, and liberation.

“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.”

“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!”

“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.”