Psychosomatics

As a former Zen Buddhist monastic, I’ve been educating and counselling individuals, educators, medical practitioners, therapists, and parents on the joys of incorporating mindfulness and meditative practices into their personal and professional lives since 2011.

During that time, I also started applying Theory U (developed by Otto Scharmer of the Presencing Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology) to community and organizational transformation.

The counselling work that I do is moreover deeply trauma- and anti-oppression informed, and backed by certifications in Parts Work, Somatics, Attachment Theory, Right Use of Power, the Wheel of Consent, Diversity and Inclusion (DEIB), and Emotional Freedom Technique (tapping).

In the last years, I’ve added certification in the therapeutic tremor to my repertoire, as a fundament of my facilitation and therapeutic approach. I additionally offer the NADA protocol for addiction and trauma recovery.

Health and Wellbeing

I earned my undergraduate degree from New York University in 2010 and have over a decade of professional experience as a dancer and actor (stage, screen, and voice) in California, New York City, and Berlin.

This background makes me particularly attuned to the body—the personal human body, but also the group body, the pain body, the social body, the spirit body. Embodiment has been a fundament of my psychospiritual research. A natural outcome of that is my pursuit of becoming a certified facilitator of the Resilience Toolkit and trauma recovery guide.

My methods are a research-based, polyvagal- and trauma-informed set of somatics exercises and counselling skills designed to bolster embodied attachment and tonify the nervous system—through self- and co-regulation.

East Asian Medicine

I’ve been practising intuitive healing since 2009, when I received private Reiki transmission, through apprenticeship. I went on to receive Shiatsu training from the Ohashi Institute in New York City in 2012.

As a somatics educator and facilitator, I credit long-term intensive trainings in Klein technique, Alexander technique, Kinetic Awareness, Body-Mind Centring, functional anatomy, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation, with much of the theoretical and experiential backgrounding of my unique methodology.

Since 2022 I began the process of pursuing certification in East Asian Medicine, focusing on how acupuncture can support with the somatization of psychospiritual trauma, as well as endocrinology (hormonal health) and infectology (especially HIV and STI support and treatment).

East Asian medical treatments include body acupuncture, ear acupuncture, massage, moxabustion, cupping, herbology, as well as nutrition & lifestyle coaching.