I’m a white, queer, trans/nonbinary, neurodivergent (ADD), somatic psychotherapist, polticized practitioner and parent living on Lenni-Lenape Land, now also known as Philadelphia.  I’ve been working therapeutically with bodies for over 15 years, and within a psychotherapy setting specializing in complex/developmental trauma for the past seven. I mostly focus my offerings to queer and trans communities and survivors of trauma and oppression although my practice is open to all bodies and identities. My work is a commitment not just to personal development, but also to collective liberation.

I’ve listened through my body for as long as I remember. I’ve always been fascinated with the subtle and big shifts, the mundane, survival and the extraordinary that express themselves through our soma. Cognition and meaning making are essential to human experience, but western culture has privileged it as the most important way of “knowing.” I integrate my skills as a politicized somatic practitioner, psychotherapist, a former bodyworker / massage therapist, and long time dance artist to support people to find accessible, compassionate relationships to themselves through their own unique embodiments.

I’ve been a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner for 10 years and have completed advanced studies in this field including Kathy Kain’s touch trainings and with Steve Terrell.  I have also trained with Generative Somatics and the Strozzi Institute and I specialize in the integration and study of touchwork within somatic therapy.

Outside of my private practice I have worked in community health settings as a Behavioral Health Consultant for people living with HIV/AIDS, and as an advocacy organizer, program facilitator and mitigation specialist with incarcerated and previously incarcerated communities.

I love assisting in the training of students and professionals and do so through the Somatic Experiencing Institute and in Kathy Kain and Steve Terrell’s Somatic Reslience and Regulation program for trauma therapists learning touch skills.  I also offer individual consultation and somatic clinical training to therapists/practitioners through programs and workshops.

I’ve been greatly influenced and shaped by so many. While this is no way complete or exhaustive, I want to honor some of them. Shannon Murphy’s work with Franklin Method, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Sara Shelton Mann, Margarita De Saa, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen/Body Mind Centering, Bayo Akomolafe, the work of  Staci Haines, Prentis Hemphill, Resmaa Menakem’s somatic abolitionism, Kathy Kain, and personal healing with work with Elizabeth Ross and Marc Schussler to name a few. I integrate my experiences from all of these teachers, mentors and influencers to support clients within my private practice.