Body-Centered Transformation in Brooklyn Heights
Holistic alternatives to clinical therapy and the medical model for trauma healing and self-actualization.
How I Support Clients
Most of my clients come to me at the same crossroads: they’re doing everything “right” but life feels off. Often they have a list of diagnoses and symptoms that the traditional model hasn’t been able to resolve. They may feel better than they used to, but they can’t quite get themselves to feeling good.
I step in with a different approach: let’s first assume there’s nothing wrong with you. Let’s assume your body is just reacting to your lived experience and asking to be heard. Those symptoms are signals, begging for lifestyle change, not palliative care. I gently guide clients into softer relationships with themselves as we begin unpacking and honoring the life your body is yearning for.
My primary services are coaching (talk with guided somatics) or psychological energy-work (energy manipulation with dialoguing around stored narratives).
I am no longer offering psychotherapy. You can read about why here.
Common Client Backgrounds: Complex Trauma, LGBT Minority Stress, Familial Sexual Violence, Narcissistic Abuse, Love Addiction, Codependence, People Pleasing, Shame
Flagship Services
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Mindfulness and somatic strategies designed to tune into body wisdom and lead a values-aligned life.
◌ 50 minute session
◌ Online or at my apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Cost: $150
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Energy healing combined with real-time discussion and release of stored emotions and psychological narratives.
◌ 15 minute intention setting
◌ 60 minutes energy work with discussion around stored emotions, identities and narratives as they arise
◌ 15 minutes integration
◌ In person at my apartment in Brooklyn Heights
Cost: $250
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Therapy meets tarot meets yoga meets board games. Leela is an ancient Indian game designed to provide a neutral analysis of your life journey for one question. I will facilitate all players through the game, giving self discovery prompts and feedback.
◌ 2-12 hour transformative life journey game
◌ (Played to completion)
◌ Online or at my apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Cost: $350 for groups of 1-2*
$500 groups 3-4
$750 groups 5-6
$900 groups 7-8
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2.5 hour breathwork session combined with energy work designed to release past trauma stored in your body
◌ 15 minutes education
◌ 15 minutes intention setting
◌ 90 minutes guided breathwork with music and energy healing, designed to release physically stored emotions
◌ 30 minutes integration
◌ Online or at my apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Cost: $250 base + $50 per additional person
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Mindfulness and somatic strategies to help couples better witness each other and improve communication
◌ 55 minute session
◌ Online or at my apartment in Brooklyn Heights.
Cost: $150
Buy 20 hours worth of services & receive a discount up to 25% Off
*depending on which services you book
Learn more about my philosophies
Vision: I’m working to build a world free of shoulds and musts, a world in which every person has space to find and live in their own truth.
Mission: I support clients in making meaning of their life experiences, creating spaciousness where there was once limiting beliefs, and moving into a vibrant, fulfilling life.
Guiding Beliefs
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Life is a game where we learn lessons from our experiences, discover our true selves, and live out our life’s purpose. While this belief for me is spiritual, I also believe embracing it as a philosophy makes life more purposeful and playful.
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Everyone has internal wisdom to guide themselves on their true life path. At all times, our bodies give us clues to what works for us and what doesn’t. Tuning into and following these nudges aligns us to our higher purpose.
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Our bodies also have complex processes designed to keep us alive by avoiding risk. They are particularly sensitive to circumstances that are unfamiliar, are less certain to provide for basic physical needs, or could lead to social isolation.
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Our inner wisdom and our risk aversion are often in conflict. Most client challenges stem from ignoring their body’s inner wisdom so they can avoid risk.
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This choice to ignore one’s inner wisdom to avoid risk has wide ranging challenging effects on the body and mind.
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Choosing inner wisdom and life purpose over fear requires healing at biological, psychological, social, and spiritual levels.
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Other client problems are entirely biological or structural in nature. The path to wellness on these issues includes taking actions that are within the client’s control, and finding a strategy for surrender on what is outside of their control.
Principles of Engagement
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The client is the authority and owner of their own story, and has final say over their goals and the methods we use together.
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My informed opinions, assessments, and recommendations can provide a helpful lens for clients, so I will share them. I am fallible and clients are better positioned to understand their truth, so clients should freely disregard my perspectives if they don’t align to their inner wisdom.
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All clients have strengths, passions, purpose, potential, and successes. I will always work to bring light to and encourage the good in my clients, and to celebrate every win on their journey.
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All clients have challenges, but no clients are broken people. I will remain compassionate with clients, especially when addressing their challenges, accepting them exactly as they are today and not requiring they change in any way.
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My work will be limited to areas in which I have training, experience, required licensure, and am confident in my abilities. I am not an expert in everything, and many things I have background in I lack the full licensure to perform in New York.
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Clients have a right to secular wellness care. While much of my work is rooted in spirituality, I will be diligent in communicating my beliefs by tying them back to our modern conceptualization of the body and wellness. I’ll always be happy to share my spiritual perspective if the client desires.
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I have my own right to work in a way and style that align to my truest self and is free of personal harm, so I will retain the right to choose not to work any prospective client, or to discontinue work with any client. I will always give a full refund if I choose to discontinue services.