Credentials and Training (for full list see below)

• Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP)

• Certified NARM®- Informed Practitioner (NeuroAffective Relational Model)

• Trained in S/IRF (Somatic Inner Relationship Focusing) 

• Certified Yoga Teacher (RYT-500)

• Certificate in Process-Oriented Facilitation (David Bedrick’s Un-shaming

• Approach)

• Alvin Ailey BFA 1998-2001

My Story

One of my earliest and most impactful memories is sitting in the waiting room of a dance studio while my older sister took class. Enya’s Sail Away played as I watched the dancers move in a way that felt sacred — almost holy. I was just a child, but something stirred in me that I didn’t yet have words for. Dance quickly became my first love and the first place I truly felt alive: fearless, aligned, and deeply in my body. It awakened a knowing that expression through the body could speak volumes beyond words.

That intuitive language of embodiment became my compass. I followed it into a ballet company, a demanding modern dance school in NYC and thousands of hours of yoga training. Even outside the dance and yoga studios, I was always tracking energy — attuned to what lived beneath the surface of words.

Yet despite how my life may have looked from the outside, I privately struggled. I couldn’t yet tell the difference between using my body and actually listening to it. I wrestled with perfectionism, people-pleasing, eating disorders, auto-immune illness, executive function issues and a deep belief that something was wrong with me. I sought answers in social justice work, years of working with different therapists, seeking out a variety of spiritual practices, and living in alternative communities. Each path offered something of value, but nothing seemed to get to the root.

In my early 30s, after months of experiencing neurological symptoms that doctors couldn’t explain, I knew something deeper was asking to be felt. That marked the beginning of a descent — into my body, into trauma, into parts of myself I had long bypassed.

Finding somatic work was a turning point for me. It gave language to what I had always sensed: that behind a smile can be unspoken tension, behind over-giving can be collapse, and that mentally understanding our patterns isn’t the same as healing them. Through this work, I stopped relating to myself as a problem to fix. Instead, I learned to meet and welcome my full self with presence and compassion.

With the guidance of skilled somatic practitioners, I began what I now call my “re-humaning” process. I came to see my patterns not as personal failures, but as intelligent adaptations — ways my nervous system tried to protect me. This shift brought relief, and also new responsibility: to care for myself in ways that were gentle, wise, and rooted in the body.

This is the lens I now bring to my work — one that respects the body’s intelligence, sees symptoms as messengers, and honors the complexity of each person’s story. I believe healing is less about fixing or transcending ourselves, and more about inhabiting the wholeness that’s already here.