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 well-being coach, I guide individuals in using mindful awareness, embodiment, and narrative practices to cultivate their ideal relationship with themselves and their lives. I was certified as a Health and Well-Being Coach through Wellcoaches School of Coaching. 

At New York University's Grossman School of Medicine, I develop and teach well-being programming (e.g. mindfulness, processing, reflection) for students and physicians. I also conduct research on resilience, co-curate the podcast Thriving in Scrubs, and consult at other hospital systems on physician wellbeing.

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

I am the Program Officer at Health Story Collaborative, an organization that creates forums for individuals to tell their stories of personal health challenges.

For ten years, I served 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 aspiring doulas.