about.

I’m a queer licensed psychotherapist, sociocultural anthropologist, and community organizer. In my work, I help clients cultivate a sense of inherent worth and find empowerment in all aspects of their lives. With two decades of experience in community organizing, social science research, and integrative wellness, I bring a nuanced understanding of healing both individually and collectively to my practice. 

I’ve spent most of my life as a student formally and informally and bring this intellectual curiosity into my practice as a therapist. I love making sense of how complex the world is and the myriad ways of how these complexities impact peoples' lives. 

For almost two decades, I’ve worked alongside international and national social movements and grassroots community organizers who have changed the course of history. My activist, academic and professional work has encompassed issues from Indigenous rights, fossil fuel extraction, settler colonialism, reproductive justice and feminism, anti-racism, dismantling white supremacy, wealth redistribution, and building resilient social movements.

I am honored to have worked alongside so many powerful change makers. I deeply believe in the power of continuing to show up in loving commitment to ourselves and to one another and in community, finding our role in social change, and the power of social movements to shift culture and political systems.

I’m a deeply values-driven person who has yearned for a more beautiful and just world since I can remember. I connect to spirit and my ancestral heritage of Judaism through practice, prayer, and ritual. I live and work in New York City on occupied Lenape land where my family has called home for five generations. 

Pronouns: she/her

education & training

Methodologies + Training Background

Licensure + Education

Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), New York License #011597

  • MA in Counseling Psychology from Boston College

  • MA in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin

  • BA in Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont

  • Certified Yoga and Meditation teacher

My post-graduate training in New York City has been under the supervision of Dr. Natalie Medina-Minton and working with the community of clinicians at the non-profit mental health agency, Maria Droste Counseling Services.

my approach to mental health and wellness.

The heart of my work is to hold space for people to feel all their feelings. Many of us believe that we don’t deserve to be happy with all of the injustice in the world. Many of us believe that our struggles pale in comparison to those who are really suffering. Our world is not set up to hold the enormity of our pain and grief, rather it gives us lots of places in which to avoid and then repress them. 

My work centers an understanding that individual, familial, and community suffering are inextricably tied to cultural norms, economic, social, and political conditions. I’m clear that people’s struggles with mental health are appropriate responses to exploitation and repression, and mental illnesses are symptoms of sick, inhumane, and imbalanced systems.

My approach creates a space for people to first understand how interconnected individual, familial, cultural, societal, and institutional factors are ingrained in patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving; which in turn, affects the way clients interact with themselves and the world.

I help clients notice if any feelings are motivating their behavior or attached to an old, inaccurate belief system. These repressed emotions get stuck in our bodies. By acknowledging the presence of our feelings fully and completely, I help clients surrender old stories and beliefs about themselves. I help them honor what those parts and stories did for them.

I believe that people need to tell their own stories in their own time and in their own way. Knowledge is power, and with that power, people can accept and have compassion for themselves, then dismantle interconnected systems both inside and outside of themselves.

My therapeutic work with you is to trust and accept all parts of yourself so that you can build an inner well of courage and resilience. You can take that strength to rise up against the root causes of injustice. Our work together will help increase emotional resilience and tolerance for stress, so that you can continue to do the work you are called to do.

I am honored to work with you to draw from inner strength and peace to show up as your full, authentic self.