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I don't stay on the surface for long. I want to get to the real stuff, the truth that's been hiding underneath.

My clients are the ones who come into a session wanting to dig — who are ready to get genuinely curious about their own story rather than just manage its symptoms. If you’re looking for someone to hand you a worksheet and send you home, I’m probably not your person.

But if you’re ready to understand why you do what you do — to move from the exhausting work of managing your inner critic to the liberating work of listening to your own deepest wisdom — then we’re going to do extraordinary things together.

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Who I Am

I came to this work through a deep and lifelong pursuit of understanding — not just the mind, but the whole of human experience. My training is rooted in Transpersonal Counseling Psychology, a framework that honors the full depth of a person: the psychological, the somatic, the spiritual, and the wisdom that lives beneath all of it.

Mindfulness is the foundation of everything I do. Not as a buzzword or a breathing exercise, but as a genuine way of being present with whatever is arising — the joy, the grief, the confusion, the discomfort. I’ve come to believe, deeply, that it is in the full experiencing of our lives — not the arriving somewhere — that real living happens. The difficult moments aren’t obstacles to the journey. They are the journey.

Over the years I’ve sought wisdom far beyond the edges of my own culture. I’ve studied and practiced within indigenous traditions — sitting in ceremony, walking through vision quests, learning from elders in the Lakota and Aztec traditions. I’ve been profoundly shaped by the grief ritual work of Sobonfu Somé and the Dagara tradition — which taught me that grief is not a problem to be solved, but a sacred passage to be witnessed. I’ve sat with Buddhist and Hindu philosophies of non-attachment and acceptance, and carried what I found there into my everyday work with clients.

None of this comes into the therapy room as theory. It comes in as a way of seeing — a wider lens, a deeper patience, a different set of questions. My clients don’t need to share any of these frameworks to benefit from them. They simply feel it, often without being able to name what shifted.

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I’ve steeped myself in looking at the world outside of my given culture to widen my perspective — and to feel and experience life more deeply.
That’s what I bring into this work.

How we work together

My work is holistic — we move out of the head and into the full experience of being alive, paying attention to what your body, your history, and your relationships are asking of you right now. Whether you're working through disordered eating, navigating early adulthood, or rebuilding connection with a partner and yourself, the thread is always the same: helping you find the truest, wisest version of yourself and learning to lead from there.

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My Guiding Principals

Deep Listening:‍ ‍The experience of being truly heard, without judgment or agenda, is itself transformative. Many clients tell me this alone has a great impact.

Presence Over Power:‍ ‍Real change comes from being willing to be in your experience. I create a space where you don’t have to have it together. You just have to show up.

Being With What Is: The feelings we most want to escape are often the ones with the most to teach us. We get curious about them. Gently, at your pace, and always with compassion.

Wisdom Over Willpower:‍ ‍Lasting change comes from understanding more deeply, not trying harder. That understanding is what sets you free.

The Whole Person:‍ ‍You are not your symptoms or your worst patterns. You are a whole, complex human being — and that's what we honor and work with here.

Let’s replace the voice that wounds with the one that heals,
and open the door to a freer, more fulfilling life.

My Background

Education & Licensure

  • Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
    in New York State & Massachusetts

  • Master of Integral Counseling Psychology from
    The California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA 2003

  • Bachelor of Psychology & Studio Art from
    Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 1994

Continued Training

  • Mindfulness Therapy Certification Training

  • Self-Compassion Therapy 

  • Expert Strategies for Working with Anxiety

  • Gen Z Specialist Training

  • Relational Life Therapy (RLT) couples therapy

  • Developmental Model for Couples

  • Body Dysmorphia Treatment Specialist training

  • Binge Eating and Chronic Dieting Cert training

  • Mindful Hypnosis Certification Training

  • Women’s Circle Work Leadership

  • Grief Ritual Leadership

Ready to find out what we can do together?

I offer in-person therapy in Fishkill, NY and telehealth across New York and Massachusetts.
If something here has resonated — trust that. Reach out and let’s begin.

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