Somatic Therapist IN NYC

how I work

Therapy with me is a true collaboration. I adapt my approach based on your goals, personality, preferences, and past experiences. I combine psychodynamic work (understanding how your past affects your present) with somatic and mindfulness-based approaches that help us get beneath overthinking to access the deeper wisdom of your body and emotions. While traditional talk therapy and analyzing your past can yield important insights, it has limitations when used in isolation. I use a relational approach because I don't believe that rigid "expert-client" dynamics—where I'm the wise therapist dispensing insights—yield lasting change. Instead, we will build a real, honest, two-way, trusting relationship in service of your goals and healing.
I also believe that the places where you struggle and suffer are not simply "problems" to solve or "diagnoses" to cure - with effective therapy, these become powerful opportunities to become more whole. Your most significant challenges point us toward the parts of your psyche that require attention, understanding, love, and integration. Therapy with me isn't just about managing symptoms or feeling less bad—it's about actively growing into more of who you truly are. 

In addition to psychodynamic, somatic, mindfulness, and existential approaches, I am particularly passionate about Internal Family Systems. IFS helps you develop a compassionate relationship with the different parts of yourself—the critic, the people-pleaser, the wounded child and find more self-acceptance and leadership. I also have specialized experience supporting people who've had significant altered-state experiences through meditation, breathwork, psychedelics, or spontaneous spiritual openings. In weaving together all of these approaches, our work becomes a journey toward reclaiming more of your wholeness, your power, your confidence, and your capacity to confidently love - not just yourself, but the world around you.