DR. IRENA NAMYRAH NAYFELD
PSYCHOLOGIST GONE WILD
About Namyrah
Irena Namyrah Nayfeld, Ph.D., is a priestexx, poet, psychologist of human development, certified somatic practitioner, embodiment coach, and soul-led liberation guide. With over 15 years of experience as a facilitator and educator, Dr. Namyrah merges professional training with more than a decade of walking their own path of healing, reclamation, and remembrance.
Rooted in a deep commitment to a more loving and liberatory world, Namyrah weaves psychology, somatics, and soul into workshops, group programs, and 1:1 sessions that liberate and transform.
Personal and Professional Background
Developmental & trauma-informed somatic psychology
With a Ph.D. in developmental psychology, Namyrah 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.
Holistic healing
Namyrah is a certified feminine embodiment coaching, somatic and emotional release practitioner, and forest therpay guide, with extensive training and continued education in energy healing modalities, neo-tantra, and intuitive healing.
Merging training and intuition, Namyrah guides your into what your body holds and knows, so that your healing comes from your own inner wisdom.
Nature as a healing force
A deep lover of nature and certified forest therapy guide, Namyrah draws on the natural world to help you reclaim your wild, true nature and know the elements and beings all around you as mirrors, allies and sources of deep wisdom and restoration.
Lived experience
A highly sensitive person with nearly a decade of chronic pain, undiagnosed VAST (ADHD), and a long history of personal and generational trauma, Namyrah knows firsthand what it’s like to feel sick, stuck, and disconnected.
After over a decade in academia, Namyrah walked away from a persitigous career to focus on reconnecting with her body, and finding her way back to herself. Originally focusing on wanting to feel better, Namyrah's path into her body led to reconnection with her true nature, deprogramming from beliefs and internalized patterns, reclamation of their full humanity and scared wholeness, spiritual death and rebirth, an embodied connection with the Divine, and a life led by truth, purpose, aliveness, and soul.
Education & Certifications
📚 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.
Personal Nuggets
💃 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:
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2023: Sold everything to follow a soul calling to Brazil.
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2024: Lived and worked on an herbal farm, apprenticed to a medicine woman, the birches, and the wild.
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2025: Making a home in the Hudson Valley, N.Y.
🎶 Fact: I can (and will) dance forever.
