About

I see myself as your Healing Homie. I’m here to accompany you as you deepen your relationship into your own HomeBody. I support individuals who are navigating trauma recovery, who want to strengthen their connection to their sense of being at home, and cultivate safety in their own bodies.

I am a life long body-based artist and experienced healing arts facilitator, a survivor of childhood trauma, racism, and sexual violence. I am a Disabled queer and Black cis woman. I bring all of my lived experience and training in embodiment to you. To help you heal by tapping into the brilliance of your own body-mind. I use techniques including Radical Mental Health First Aid, created by Oumou Sylla LMFT, MA, Somatic Therapy, and EMDR, I am certified in both through the Embody Lab.

Are you a therapist?

Nope! Licensed therapists can be fantastic, shout out to great therapists everywhere, however it's not for me. Creating collaborative healing pathways with you allows us to center the wisdom of your expertise about your own lived experience, together, rather than holding me up as the expert. I also am not a mandatory reporter, allowing me to honor my abolitionist values and never involve the state or police unless requested explicitly by those I work with. It also means I am not limited to nation/state borders to connect and care!

You may be deep into your own healing journey and see EMDR and/or Somatic Therapy as useful additions to your growth. Or perhaps you’re feeling disconnected from your body and hoping to build a deeper sense of home. Maybe you’re realizing like so many others that navigating the first years of a global pandemic have left you traumatized, you’re feeling short tempered, struggling to sleep, having trouble concentrating, connecting to your loved ones, or enjoying things that once brought you joy.

Maybe you hear the word trauma and don’t see yourself in it, because it feels like it belongs only to people who have experienced particular types of violence. Or you come from a community where a word like trauma or seeking support isn’t understood because this kind of pain is just normal life. My specialties include people who live under the ongoing violence of systemic oppression, and for whom the trauma of survival might be normalized:

  • Racialized, queer, or gender identity

  • Disability and/or chronic illness

  • Medical trauma

  • Immigration stress

  • Caregiver burnout

  • Sexual trauma

  • cPTSD

I see you, your care matters, and I’m here to care with you whether you have a medical diagnosis, or just the felt sense that you need support.