As a white-bodied cisgender woman from a working-class family with a history of addiction, divorce, and mental illness, I explore the intersecting forces of privilege, oppression, and trauma that shape how I am in the world to find generative ways to heal, knowing I can only offer what I practice. I am deeply inspired and humbled by somatic healing lineages, restorative justice, practices of repair, and the vulnerability I witnessed and experienced through these.

Creative practices have also been a vital force of generativity in my life and have taken many forms, including dance, painting, sculpture, video, improv, and playing with sound. When working with people, I seek to cultivate and support their generative practices, whether they take walks, cook, paint, organize for justice, write poetry, install objects in galleries, play music, play with their kids, or play games. I support any and all ways toward liberation.

Between supporting folks in their growth, making things in the studio, and playing with experimental guided meditation at thoughts&feelings, I find ways to laugh with friends and family because connecting through laughter is a resilience and resourcing practice I take very seriously. These days, I'm also trying to figure out how to garden. Plants are the wisest of us all. 

Education

• Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in California (LMFT#115339)

• MA, Counseling Psychology, The Wright Institute

• BFA, Interdisciplinary Studies, with a focus on Painting at The San Francisco Art Institute

• International Studies Beaux-Arts de Paris

Training

• Internal Family Systems Trauma Treatment Program with Frank Andersen, MD

• Healing Intergenerational Trauma w/ Efu Nyaki & Dr. Peter Levine

• Somatic Attachment Therapy Certificate Program with The Embody Lab

• Embodied Social Justice Certificate Program w/ Rev. angel Kyodo williams