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My work is attuned, relational, socio-political and embodied.
This framework emerged from an immersion in each of these worlds — the therapeutic, the mystical, and the social justice worlds. I learned what each lineage held, and what each one couldn't hold on its own.
Therapeutic spaces offer excellent tools for developmental and relational healing — and often lack the capacity to recognize the sociopolitical. Social justice spaces carry vital socio-political consciousness — and regularly can't hold the depth of the developmental. Contemplative spaces open the mystical and the transcendent — and often have no room for the woundings of religion itself.
My framework brings these worlds together. And it is the body — the personal, relational, and communal body — that is not simply the site of injury but the site of transformation.
My somatic practice is rooted in Somatic Experiencing®, IFS, Somatic EMDR, and Attachment Repair. Having studied and practiced classical Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhism, including in the Gelug, Kalachakra, Dzogchen and Chöd traditions, my approach to Buddhism today is mystical and neuroscientific. My sociopolitical lens is shaped by the Black queer feminist movement, and by the long tradition of Dalit resistance.
My practice embraces the dark and light, reclaiming the liberatory practices of rest, joy, and erotic pleasure.
My therapeutic approach is the result of decades of interweaving these lineages in a compassionate and joy-positive liberatory framework.
Who I work with
My Framework
What we work on
My practice encompasses developmental and complex trauma, racial trauma, sexual trauma, religious trauma and moral injury. I pay particular attention to the often under-examined and over-simplified ways these traumas intersect. I work with clients to compassionately and experientially be with and transform the symptoms of these traumas, including depression, anxiety, addictions (including to food and productivity), self-worth issues, and familial and relational complexities and inequities.
I support clients in liberatory living — with authenticity, compassion, joy, and play — in their personal, relational, communal, professional, creative, and social life.
I work with adults, individually, and with couples, polycules, and families. My approach supports clients who want to weave together the personal, intergenerational, sociopolitical, and mystical dimensions of their experience into their healing process. I welcome working with adoptees and mixed race families, where internalized and external marginalization often shape individual and relational life in complex, underexplored ways.