Columbia University

• MS, Narrative Medicine (2012-2014)

• Fellowship, “Narrative Medicine as a Wisdom Practice” (2017-2018)

New York University, Gallatin School of Individualized Study (2007-2009)

• BA, “Stories of Self: Realization, Empowerment and Wellbeing” (2007-2009)

• Concentrations: Gender & Cultural Studies, Medical Anthropology, & Narrative Theory

Smith College (2005-2007)

• Concentrations: English Literature, Gender Studies

• Physician Peer Support Program, New York University Langone Health (2019)

• Helping Healers Heal: “Stress, Trauma, & Resilience Training”, NYC Health & Hospitals, Bellevue Hospital (2018)

• Stress Management and Resiliency Training (SMART-R), Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital (2017)

• Mental Health Coach, Lyra  Health (2017)

• Certified Health and Well-Being Coach (CHWC), Wellcoaches Corporation (2016)

• Restorative Yoga Teacher, Laughing Lotus Yoga Center (2016)

• Kripalu Yoga Teacher, Kripalu School of Yoga and Ayurveda (2015)

• Full-Spectrum Doula, The Doula Project (2012)

• Labor and Birth Doula, DONA International (2010)

In my private practice, I integrate narrative medicine with a doula model of care, anchored in coaching tenants, to provide personalized support to adults of all ages and orientations.

I specialize in grief, loss, transition, creativity, narrative, the healthcare system, and reproductive health. Through somatic and narrative practices, I help clients strengthen their relationship with themselves.

I lead communications for the City Health Dashboard and Congressional District Health Dashboard, free health data resources that aim to advance health equity. The Dashboards are housed at NYU Grossman School of Medicine’s Department of Population Health, and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

I’m on the Advisory Board of the Bellevue Literary Review (BLR), a literary arts organization that explores health, illness, and healing through a literary journal, education, and public programming. I developed and run the BLR Art in Medicine program for healthcare trainees. I also am a Poetry Reviewer and Co-Chair of the Outreach and Engagement Committee.

From 2015-2025, I developed and ran the Physician Professional Wellbeing Program for early career physicians at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. I designed programming to attend to moral injury, burnout, and the need to make meaning. The program was based in narrative medicine and medical humanities, as well as workplace improvement initiatives. I worked with over 50 specialties to attend to the needs of their clinical workforce.

I conducted research on resilience with OBGYN residents, which gave rise to the podcast Thriving in Scrubs. You can explore more of my writing and podcasts on the Publications page.

I received a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine - the study of how stories can be used for healing - at Columbia University in 2014. I had designed a similar course of study as an undergraduate at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study.

In 2008, I became a doula, providing compassionate care for people through experiences of birth, postpartum, and pregnancy loss. I served as a leader of The Doula Project from 2013-2018, built and led doula trainings, and trained aspiring doulas in NYC clinical settings.