Alchemizing kindness and change at the crossroads of Rest, Resistance, Relationship, and Rejoicing.
My approach is trauma-informed, somatic, relational, psychodynamic, and spiritual.
My clinical focus…
* Trauma, PTSD, and complex PTSD
* Grief
* Racialized stress and trauma
* Identity exploration and expression
* Full spectrum of pre/perinatal and postpartum experiences
* Aging
* Spiritual growth and liberation
* Life transitions and transformation
Some common themes that come up in my work with adults and teens…
* Death and the meaning of change
* Covid-19 stress or trauma
* Problems at work or school
* Family estrangement
* Belonging and becoming
* Multi-racial identity
* Internalized oppression
* Legacies/ancestral trauma
* Impact of systemic oppression and capitalism on the body.
* Immigration
* Cultural differences between parents and children
* Childhood experiences of abuse and/or emotional neglect
* Inner critic
* Self-compassion
* Boundaries
* Religious trauma
* Anxiety
* Depression
* Birth trauma, miscarriages, adoption
* Caring for an aging family member and aging
* Accessing the numinous
* Resting and restoration
* Receiving
* Integrating joyful and spiritual experiences into the everyday
“Kindness eases change.”
—Octavia Butler
Professional Background & Affiliations
Irving B Harris Early Childhood Mental Health trainee, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland 2024
California Institute of Integral Studies. Masters in Counseling Psychology, Concentration in Somatics, c.o. 2022.
Trainee at the Center for Somatic Psychotherapy, 2022
500 + hours of training in Hatha Yoga for youth, adults, and postpartum individuals.
Member of the Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death