My Offerings
therapy
I offer spiritually integrated therapy sessions that affirm marginalized identity and intersectionality. I practice somatic psychotherapy, which is a type of therapy that helps you work through emotional and mental struggles by paying attention to what's happening in your body and not just your mind. Offering a somatic based modality helps us glean interoceptive awareness. The capacity to feel, track, and mine our first hand internal experience restores balance and homeostasis in the central nervous system and boosts our emotional resilience and self regulation. I work with adult clients, and have a particular affinity and skill for working with teens and young adults.
I practice virtually within the state of California, as well as in-person in Santa Cruz, CA. I also offer periodic in person therapeutic workshops, events and retreats.
virtual grief groups
Grieving is a sign of spiritual health and yet our deathphobic dominant cis/het culture does nothing to foster our well being and our relationship to death, grief and loss - often avoiding these conversations all together. I offer virtual grief groups for marginalized individuals to meet and process these hard transitions together. Register by clicking on this flyer and completing the form.
yoga
I am a 500hr-ERYT certified yoga teacher and certified iRest Yoga Nidra meditation teacher with over 10 years of experience. My teaching style is adaptive to all ages and abilities and focuses on helping folks cultivate more connection and ease within themselves. I integrate yoga & meditation practices and tools in my work as a psychotherapist.
I teach accessible yoga virtually on zoom as a workplace employee wellness offering. In my private practice, I offer Restorative Yoga and iRest Yoga Nidra meditation in dyad and group settings both virtually and in person. I have a particular affinity and love for working with adolescents and I have had the privilege to teach yoga and mindfulness to thousands of teens throughout the San Francisco Bay Area in juvenile hall facilities, rehabilitation centers, and public schools through my many years of involvement with RISE Yoga for Youth and The Art of Yoga Project. I am a faculty instructor for the SRI Yoga 200hr Teacher Training and facilitate the Yoga for Teens Teacher Training nationwide.
death care
Aside from my grief group sessions, I also offer other forms of death care. I am a certified death doula, meaning I provide emotional, spiritual, and practical support to individuals and families during the dying process. I work with those at the end of life and their loved ones, providing guidance and tools to navigate this transition from a somatic and spiritual lens. I also create and facilitate collective and communal grief rituals and offer support in planning and producing legacy arts and celebrations of life.
I also offer an extremely occasional newsletter where I share musings on the mind/body connection and death and grief, as well as share upcoming information on retreats, workshops and class series.