About Me

I came to this work through art and movement long before I had clinical language for either. I grew up taking dance classes and making art—as ways to play, process my emotions, and understand myself and the world. My love of movement led me to become a yoga teacher in 2008. Over the next several years, I immersed myself in yoga, energy work, contemplative practice, dance, and interfaith spirituality. I became an experienced registered yoga teacher (E-RYT 500), trained in Rahini and Dharma Yoga, as well as an ordained interfaith minister, certified Reiki practitioner, Let Your Yoga Dance teacher, and Divine Sleep Yoga Nidra teacher.

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While teaching at Yoga for Life on Long Island, I began combining yoga postures with art, writing, visualization, sound, prayer, and dance. I watched my students thrive and became increasingly curious about what becomes possible when embodiment, creativity, and spirituality are brought together. I wanted to understand more deeply how this kind of integration supports healing.

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That question led me to Lesley University, where I earned an MA in Expressive Therapies in 2014, specializing in mental health counseling and dance/movement therapy. Since then, I have worked in inpatient psychiatric and eating-disorder treatment, residential trauma treatment for children and adolescents, community mental health, intensive outpatient addiction treatment, public schools, crisis services, and justice-system settings. These experiences gave me a strong clinical foundation for working with trauma, serious mood symptoms, addiction, eating disorders, suicidal ideation, relationship patterns, and complex life experiences.

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I am a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC), licensed creative arts therapist (LCAT), licensed alcohol and drug counselor (LADC/CASAC), and board-certified dance/movement therapist (BC-DMT). I also hold a PhD in Human Development. My doctoral research examined adult attachment through a polyvagal lens, deepening my understanding of how our earliest relationships shape the nervous system, the body, and our capacity for connection throughout adulthood.

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My additional training includes Shake Your Soul dance, SomaSoul Somatic Therapy, HeartMath, Brainspotting Phase 1, hypnosis, herbalism through Sweet Birch Herbals, and nutritional and integrative medicine for mental health with Leslie Korn. I continue to study the Discipline of Authentic Movement through Janet Adler’s Circles of Four teacher-training program.

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These credentials are not a collection of separate approaches. They reflect a lifelong inquiry into how people heal and become more fully themselves. I understand health and healing as a complex whole, and my work is best suited for people who want therapy to engage the body, emotions, imagination, creativity, relationships, thought, and spirituality.

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Our work may include reducing symptoms and strengthening stability, processing and integrating trauma, and loosening patterns of self-criticism, disconnection, people-pleasing, or pushing through. It can also involve reclaiming self-trust, choice, pleasure, creativity, connection, personal meaning, and aliveness. No experience with art, dance, or movement is required.