About Me

Personal and Professional Background​

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Developmental & trauma-informed somatic psychology
With a doctorate in developmental psychology, I spent over two decades in research and application of how early development, individual traits, and family, cultural, and social conditioning create our internalized subconscious beliefs, impact our physical and emotional states, and create long-term patterns and behaviors.

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Holistic healing 

I am certified feminine embodiment coach, somatic and emotional release practitioner, and forest therpay guide, with extensive training and continued education in energy healing modalities, neo-tantra, and intuitive healing. 

 

I merge my training and with intuition to guide you into what your body holds and knows, so that your healing comes from your own inner wisdom.

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Nature as a healing force

I learn from the elements and beings of the natural world around us every day, and invite others to notice the healing that is always available in the trees, waters, plants, and animals that accompany us. My approach is guided by the knowing that we are deeply interconnected to the natural world and that remembering this connection is a source of deep wisdom and restoration.

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Lived experience

A highly sensitive person who lived for a decade in chronic pain, undiagnosed VAST (ADHD), and a long history of personal and generational trauma, I know firsthand what it’s like to feel sick, stuck, and disconnected.

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After over a decade in academia, I walked away from a persitigous career to focus on reconnecting with my body, and finding my way back to mysel. Originally focusing on wanting to feel better, my path into my body led to reconnection with my true nature, liberation from beliefs and internalized patterns, reclamation of erotic life force, spiritual death and rebirth, an embodied connection with the Divine, and a life led by soul.

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Education & Certifications​

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📚 Ph.D., M.S., Developmental Psychology | University of Miami

🏫 Postdoctoral Fellow | Stanford University & NYU Steinhardt
🌀 Certified Feminine Embodiment Coach | School of Embodied Arts
🌿 Certified Forest Therapy Guide | The Forest Therapy School
🌊 Certified Somatic & Emotional Release Practitioner | Temple Somatics Foundations
✨ Additional trainings: Strozzi Institute of Somatics, Deep Coaching Institute, Embodied Social Justice Institute, Animas Valley Institute, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond, Michaela Boehm's Wild Woman's Circle, International School of Temple Arts L1, Ll1, L2, Relational Awakening, and others.

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Personal Nuggets

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💃 Deep loves: Family, dancing, reading, poetry, live music, swimming, tree-hugging, barefoot wandering, cuddles.
🔥 Deep values: Liberation for all. Love for all. Wild joy and justice for all.

🌿Relevant identities: Auntie. Immigrant. Refugee. Queer. Gender-expansive. Jewish. Highly Sensitive Person (HSP). Neurocomplex. Priestexx. Wild woman. Poet. Moon dancer. Witch.
🗣 Languages spoken: Russian, English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese.
🚀 Recent soul journeys:

• 2023: Sold everything to follow a soul calling to Brazil. 

• 2024: Lived and worked on an herbal farm, apprenticed to a medicine woman, the birches, and the wild.

• 2025: Making a home in the Hudson Valley, N.Y. 

🎶 Fact: I can (and will) dance forever.​