ABOUT ME

I am professionally trained as a clinical social worker and yoga therapist. After many years working in community mental health, I was burnt to a crisp and legit left the country to teach yoga on a beach. Two important lessons I learned were that I am too type A for that lifestyle and that I couldn't escape the realities of our world. After returning to the country, I dove deep into racial justice work while building my private practice. 

As I dove deeper into both collective and personal healing and transformation work, the interconnection of the two became illuminated. I began to see how our cultural narratives and white supremacy culture keep us stuck, disconnected, and disempowered in our personal experiences. At the same time, I saw that doing the collective work without a deeper personal awareness and internal resources can lead to burnout, exhaustion, and hopelessness.

I created Somatic Tools for Personal and Collective Transformation to bridge the gap between individual and collective transformation. I believe it is possible to create a culture that germinates sustainable personal and collective change if we have the tools to reconnect to our bodies and the wisdom within them.