My bona fides

I am a somatic psychotherapist and dance-based artist from Walla Walla, Washington. I’m licensed in Washington State as a Mental Health Counselor (LMHC), in New York State as a Creative Arts Therapist (LCAT), and I am a Registered Dance/Movement Therapist (R-DMT) with the American Dance Therapy Association. I received an MS in Dance/Movement Therapy from Pratt Institute and a BA in Dance and Africana Studies from Oberlin College.

A guiding word

Practice is a guiding word for me as an artist and a therapist grounded in movement, body, and the expressive arts. To have a practice means to show up each day ready to flex one’s muscles and engage. It suggests process over product and continual becoming—an openness to the encounter and whatever unfolds. “Practice” reminds us that we always come back to what is simple and fundamental to grow. The most expert musician is never above scales and simple exercises. Likewise, no matter how much we intellectually know and understand, we can always learn more by practicing basic noticing: feeling our feet on the ground, attending to our bodily senses, being with whatever is present now to take the next step forward.