Meet your somatic + trauma
therapist in Brooklyn.

My approach is warm, collaborative, and relational. I don’t see you as a collection of symptoms to fix or problems to solve. You are the expert on yourself. I bring curiosity, creativity, clinical knowledge, and a willingness to meet you where you are. Together, we can explore the patterns that have shaped you while making room for the parts of yourself you may have learned to ignore, minimize, or push aside. I work with LGBTQ+ clients, and your identity is part of your life here, not something you need to explain.

Therapy is a place to stop performing and get curious about what’s underneath.

Why this work matters to me.

How we’ll work together.

Therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all. I like to have a range of ways we can work together, because sometimes talking is exactly what you need, and sometimes words only get us so far. We’ll integrate traditional talk therapy with creative, experiential, and somatic approaches depending on what feels most useful for you. Some sessions may involve conversation and reflection. Others might include movement, creative expression, or slowing down to notice what’s happening in your body. There’s no right way you need to participate. We’ll find what works for you.

Body-based somatic therapy.

I’m interested in what your body has to say, especially the things you may not have words for yet. Stress and trauma can show up in our bodies in ways that don’t always make sense intellectually. You might feel constantly on edge, tense, restless, shut down, disconnected, or overwhelmed without knowing exactly why.

Somatic therapy gives us another way into that experience. We’ll pay attention to your body’s signals and explore the ways your nervous system has learned to respond to stress and trauma. The goal is to help you understand your body’s responses, work with them rather than against them, and create more room to move out of patterns of chronic survival.

Experiential therapy.

I’ve found that insight can only take us so far. You can understand exactly why you do something and still find yourself doing it anyway. That’s where I often turn toward experiential work.

Rather than only talking about what happened, we can pay attention to what is happening right now. We might explore a feeling as it comes up, notice what your body is doing, experiment with movement or creative expression, or use our relationship in the room as a way to understand a familiar pattern. These experiences can help us access something different from simply thinking through the problem, while connecting the past with how you experience yourself in the present.

Compassion-based therapy.

I work with a lot of people who are incredibly hard on themselves. Maybe being self-critical has helped you achieve, stay responsible, avoid mistakes, or keep everything together. But constantly pushing yourself can become exhausting.

I don’t believe the answer is to simply tell yourself to “be kinder.” Instead, I want us to understand where that critical voice came from and what it is trying to do for you. From there, we can practice responding to yourself differently, especially when shame, disappointment, or difficult emotions show up. Over time, this can help you develop a relationship with yourself that feels less punishing and more understanding.

Parts work or Internal Family Systems (IFS).

I view our patterns as parts of us that learned to do a job that protects us. There may be a part that pushes you to achieve, a part that keeps everyone happy, a part that overthinks every possible outcome, or a part that wants to shut everything down when it becomes too much.

I don’t want to get rid of those parts. They developed for a reason, and many of them have worked really hard to help you survive. Parts work gives us a chance to get curious about them, understand what they need, and build trust with them. As those parts feel less stuck in their old roles, you can have more choice in how you respond and less of a sense that you’re constantly fighting with yourself.