Like many others, I got into the mental health space through my own healing journey. Through the power of mindfulness-based practices and conscious awareness, I began healing my own inner child wounds and core beliefs (it’s a lifelong process!). I began to cultivate a sense of awareness around trauma responses that once kept me safe, but ones that I no longer needed. Through my own healing, I also realized that trauma, stress and stagnant energy store themselves in the body. Just focusing on the mind is only getting a small sliver of the whole picture. 

I received my Meditation Teacher certification from the Nalanda Institute in New York City that focused on somatic meditation, studying and honoring the Tibetan Buddhist roots of this healing practice. Soon after, I realized that I wanted to incorporate the spiritual elements of meditation with the deep shadow work of therapy, which propelled me to get my Master’s of Social Work from Columbia University with a concentration in Advanced Clinical Practice. I'm now a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (#129111) under the state of California.  Some of my other offerings include workshops, a newsletter, and lots of free content on Instagram and TikTok.