My philosophy revolves around the notion that you are your own best healer and I’m simply here to support you in removing anything that’s in the way of you accessing your own internal wisdom. We are wired for resilience. Given the chance, the body has its own inherent ability to heal itself. Just as when you get a cut - you don’t have to “think” your way into healing; your body has its own natural way of repairing itself.

My style is very collaborative and human-focused, meaning that I am much more interested in being with you in your unique experience than pathologizing, diagnosing, labeling, or putting you in a box. I’ll meet you with compassion, openness, and curiosity. I also believe that healing doesn’t always have to be painful. Reclaiming a sense of joy and play is an important (or essential, really) part of the process!

SERVICES I OFFER (1:1 and groups)

My sessions include but are not limited to a combination of some of the following modalities:

Integration Sessions

Make sense of your experiences and weave these insights into your everyday life through personal practice and community support. Life is psychedelic in and of itself, so these experiences could be from your everyday human life, medicine journeys, or other expanded states of consciousness. Insight is great, but it doesn’t elicit change without application and integration.

Somatic Experiencing™

Somatic comes from the Greek word soma, meaning “of the body”. Somatic Experiencing, developed by Dr. Peter Levine, is a body-based practice. Through the lens of Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory, SE provides a way for us to build more resilience by processing trauma stored in the body rather than talking about the details of the past in an intellectual way. As we learn to regulate the nervous system, we are able to not only think differently, but feel differently in our bones.

Internal Family Systems (IFS) / Parts Work

Developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS helps us understand and process the complexity of our multidimensional inner world. By mapping out and interacting with different “parts” of ourselves (i.e. inner child, self critic, people pleaser, perfectionism, controlling behaviors, addictions, etc), we can move from inner conflict to more self compassion, empowerment, harmony and regulation in our system.

Private Yoga

Experience more alignment in your body and mind through the physical practice of yoga. The word yoga means “to yoke”, or to bring together. Mind and body; breath and movement; logic and emotion; subtle and gross. A moving meditation in a space of nonduality. My teaching style is a classical vinyasa that blends equal parts strength, mobility, and flexibility with a sense of play.

Breathwork

Emotions = energy in motion. When we don’t allow that energy to move through us, it gets stuck. Breathwork is a powerful practice that can allow us to get out of our head and into our body, where unprocessed emotions tend to live.

MY TRAINING

Master of Clinical Social Work, University of Southern California (in progress)

Holistic Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, Somatic Experiencing International

Psychedelic Assisted Therapy + Integration Training, Inbodied Life with Lauren Taus and Ashley Booth

Internal Family Systems, Internal Family Systems Counseling Association with Derek Scott

Attachment & Trauma Mastery Program with Dr. Diane Poole Heller

Certified Alcohol and Drug Counselor, UCLA 

200hr Registered Yoga Teacher, Shivakali Yoga

Breathwork Facilitator, Lane Jaffe

+ walking my talk by being an active agent in my own life experience! Above any training I have done or will continue to do, the commitment I make to support you is nothing without the devotion I have to my own ongoing personal growth, learning, and healing.