more about me

I am a former yoga teacher and garden teacher, with lots of experience working with children and adults in a therapeutic setting. I am a Bay Area native and lover of this place, body enthusiast, mother, coparent, animal lover, big fan of trees, studier of relationships (traditional and non-traditional).

I view the process of therapy as collaborative (we come up with the path together) and consent based (you are always in charge). I can also take a more directive approach when needed, and support or challenge individuals in seeing things about themselves they might not see.

I come from a family of doctors, and have always oriented around the healing professions. Somatic Psychotherapy is important to me because it gives the space to integrate all the parts of ourselves and does not privilege the body over the mind or vice versa. In somatic psychotherapy we presume that the psyche, the nervous system, the muscles, bones, heart, beliefs, ancestry, and dreams all impact how we relate to ourselves and others. My goal is to create a space where you are welcomed fully in your humanness.

Training

  • Yoga Teacher for 18 years with additional training in anatomy, prenatal, restorative, therapeutics

  • Former Education and Garden teacher with The Edible Schoolyard

  • Yoga Therapist Certification 2019

  • Masters in Somatic Psychotherapy with California Institute of Integral Studies, 2023

  • EMDR Basic Training 2024

  • Attachment Focused EMDR 2025/2026

  • Relational Somatic Healing Beyond Attachment 2025

  • Hakomi Professional Skills Level 1 2026/2026

More about me and what I’m interested in:

I have lived experience in a white body, with Northern European ancestry, as a cis-woman, as a single parent and a coparent, through a mental health journey, as a queer person and as someone trying to build relationships and community in a less traditional way.

I am keenly interested in :

  • Somatics

    • Is the relationship with my body more adversarial or loving? How does society/culture and my own positionality impact my connection to my body and the way I see myself and others see me? Where in me is my intuition and how can I listen for it? how do my daily habits, aches, pains, posture, and body movement patterns tell the story of my attachment and experiences, or what I believe about the world?

  • Ecopsychology

    • How am I shaped by the place(s) I’ve lived in? How does my connection, or lack there of, with the natural world resource me or affect me? How can I find more of a home in myself by connecting with places, plants, and animals that bring me meaning and safety? How can I connect with my own wildness, re-claim and love my “animal instincts”?

  • Evolutionary Psychology

    • What does it mean that 83% of human history and evolution has been spent in a hunter-gatherer, non land-owning, non industrial, non tech, deeply communal, highly ritual and ceremony rich way of being? How does this current iteration of Western high-tech, high-industrial, high-isolation, capitalism impact my mental health? How can I get back in touch with my humanness by reconnecting with my body, the environment, and rooting into relationship?

  • Attachment

    • How do our earliest relationships create blueprints and expectations for how we will relate with others for the rest of my life?

  • Culture

    • How do the systems we were born in shape us? What is the impact on our nervous systems of being in this culture in certain bodies (white, black, cis, trans, women, man, male, female, tall, short, able, disabled, etc.)? How does that impact our connection to our truest selves? How does that impact our relationships?