Education & Study

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EARLIER EDUCATION AND WORK:

I hold a MA degree from New York University (2020) in Drama Therapy and a BA in Theater Arts Performance from California State Uni of Long Beach (2014). Prior to private coaching, I have extensive experience as a Drama Therapist and Counselor in acute psychiatric hospitals, partial hospitalization/outpatient groups, community settings, older adult care facilities, and residential treatment centers for co-occurring mental health and substance recovery. I have worked with individuals and groups across the life span navigating trauma, anxiety, depression, disordered eating, mood challenges, experiences of hearing voices/seeing visions, and life transitions often compounded by social and cultural dislocation. I have a special passion for supporting 2Slgbtqia+ folx who come in contact with these systems through a liberation focused lens. I am greatly in awe of and influenced by models of co-care in recovery community and peer communities. I do my best to disrupt professionalism, and navigate co-created boundaries with people I support.

Disability Justice:

I identify as a disabled and neuroqueer person. I relate mostly to ADHD type experiences of energy, attention, thinking, creative process, organizational capacities, processing speeds and some more traits I am still exploring.

I recognize many overlaps within complex trauma experiences, and I am always unpacking this and striving to be a co-conspirator for the movement of disability justice and madness. I hold an open inquiry about my ongoing changing abilities/capacities. My connection to supporting disabled people is informed by engagement as an advocate within disability community in a variety of artist, community, and mental health spaces.

My life experience also includes being a loved one, a family member, and in relationship to many folks who identify as living with a disability, as disabled individuals, and/or oppressed by abeleist systems (all of us!). I am impacted by chronic illness and life threatening illness. I believe in supporting your needs as they arise and transform. I will do all I can alongside you to accommodate diverse participation and access needs. We will discuss this when we meet for a consult call. If we work in person, we will discuss our COVID needs and work together accordingly with masking & testing. The office has windows, fans, and air purifiers. running in the office and waiting room.

Affiliations:

Somatic Experiencing International

Mental Health Care Workers for Palestine

Certified onOPEN PATH COLLECTIVE &HEALING ARTS COLLECTIVE

Queer Healers

Registered Drama Therapist (#822) with theNorth American Drama Therapy Association

NYU MA in Drama Therapy 2020