BACKGROUND & TRAINING

I became a certified Rosen Method Bodywork Practitioner through the Berkeley Center Rosen Method school. I have been in private practice since 2018, focusing on work with highly sensitive people, intermodal artists, women, and femmes of all genders. 

I earned a Master's Degree from Goddard College. My thesis focused on how systems of social hierarchy affect the neurophysiological substrates of one’s ability to know what they know, feel what they feel, and to express that within a democracy. At the heart of this study was recognition of the revolutionary power of love as a neurophysiological state that can shift both social and intellectual habits that aren’t in line with our ideals of equality across gender, race, class and all our beautiful subdivisions as folks. My thesis advisor was the wonderful neuro philosopher and artist Ellie Epp. 

I've completed postgraduate training in Somatic Counseling through the California Institute of Integral Studies, and in Therapeutic Expressive Arts Facilitation through the European Graduate School, where I trained with the field's groundbreaking founder, Paolo Knill. I am currently pursuing a degree in Clinical Mental Health Counseling through Antioch University.

I've taught workshops on intersectionality  as a micro-fusion dance instructor and as a choral director through Recess Productions. Outside of the Rosen office, I create and implement therapeutic Expressive Arts and psycho-social programming for seniors.

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Raised in rural New Hampshire, I was surrounded and enriched by nature throughout childhood, but challenged by the intergenerational and structural traumas of rural poverty. I've worked with dedication against great odds to excel in each phase of my professional training. This hard work has come to fruition in my inspiredly intersectional approach as a Rosen practitioner. The diverse path of trainings and life experiences that I've traveled have burned into me a blunt and heartfelt awareness of how intersectional experiences of privilege and oppression enter the body-mind as chronic muscular tension, and how to heal effectively at these edges.