Experience

I am dedicated to guiding people in explorations of their innate capacity to heal, awaken, and flourish.  I came to this calling through navigating my own struggles with physical and emotional health, loss, and grief. Though challenging, these experiences endowed me with invaluable insights, skills, and the unwavering belief that it is always possible to both overcome hardship and to thrive.  

I work with people of all ages and orientations. My areas of expertise include somatic healing, narrative, self-compassion, relationships, grief, listening, reproductive health, recovery, empathy, and mindfulness. 

As a coach, I guide individuals using awareness, embodiment, and narrative practices to cultivate a relationship with oneself and  I was certified as a Health and Well-Being Coach through Wellcoaches School of Coaching. 

For over a decade, I developed and taught narrative medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, as Senior Manager of Professional Fulfillment and Wellbeing in Graduate Medical Education. I conducted research on resilience, and co-executive produce the podcast Thriving in Scrubs. I consult at other health care and hospital systems on narrative medicine and clinician professional development.

I received a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine - the study of how stories can be used for healing - at Columbia University in 2014, after designing a similar course of study as an undergraduate at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study. I was awarded a 2017-2018 Fellowship from Columbia University to explore “Narrative Medicine as a Wisdom Practice.” 

For ten years, I worked as a doula, providing compassionate care for people during experiences of birth, abortion, miscarriage, fetal anomaly, and perinatal loss. I was on the Leadership Circle of the Doula Project from 2013-2018, and trained dozens of aspiring doulas.