Irena Namayra Nayfeld, Ph.D.
Psychologist Gone Wild
Get out of your head. Come home to your body. Live from soul.
Hello, dear human.
I am so glad you are here.
I’m Dr. Irena Namayra Nayfeld (she/they) —poet, healer, teacher, dancer, and guide.
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I work with deep feeling women and gender-expansive humans ready to go from stuck, burnt-out, and disconnected to whole, embodied, and free.
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My path hasn’t been standard. A true one rarely is.
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For years, I lived with chronic pain, burnt out, far from my truth—disconnected from my voice and needs, my highly sensitive, intuitive nature, and my wild soul.
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It wasn’t until I began listening—not trying to fix myself, but truly listening—that everything changed.
Reconnecting with my body led me to meet, and feel, parts of myself I didn't even know I had suppressed.
It reconnected me with my wonder, my essence, and my joy.
It set me free.
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Rooted in deep personal healing, a Ph.D. in Psychology of Human Development, and years of experience as an educator, facilitator, and certified somatic practitioner, I now support others in understanding and releasing the conditioning, patterns, and trauma that shape their lives.
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As a deeply feeling human, your intuition, sensitivity, and emotional depth are gifts.
When you release the stories your body holds, you reclaim your inner power and worth.
This is the foundation of a fulfilling, meaningful, and joy-filled life.​
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For a long time, I knew that there was something deeper underneath my physical pain and burn out. But I didn't know how to get to the root. I was missing the How?.​​
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I’m here to offer that How — and to walk beside you so you don’t have to do it alone.
The freer we become inside ourselves, the freer our world will be.
- Andrea Gibson, poet.
What is Embodied Healing?​​
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Embodied Healing is a path that honors the truth that our emotions, traumas, and conditioning live not just in the mind, but in the body.
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It is also the way to our aliveness, inuitive wisdom, and wild joy.​​​
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If you are anything like me, you've probably had a sense that something more is possible.
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You are right.
We have become disconnected. Reconnecting to our body offers a way back to the pieces of ourselves we have repressed, our full humanity, our soul wisdom, and our interconnection with other beings and the natural world.
When we meet ourselves in our wholeness—we transform.
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The growing body of research on trauma, the mind-body connection, and somatic healing—led by voices like Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, Resmaa Menakem, Dr. Thema Bryant, Gabor Maté, and so many others—shows what indigenous healers, medicine women, and our ancestors have always known: our bodies hold our traumas, our stories, and our truths.​
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You are not broken, or lost.
You are whole, wise, and wild.
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If you're a deep-feeling human living with pain, burnout, or disconnection—
someone who wants to feel good in your own body, live alive, and show up for others in a way that feels deeply true— you’re in the right place.
It is time for you to embody who you really are.
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Work with Me
Always trauma-informed, embodied, and experiental, my 1-on-1 Embodied Healing & Liberation programs and group workshops offer the space and support to reconnect with your inner truth, release what no longer serves, and root in soul.
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