Training and Professional Development

TRAUMA AND EMBODIMENT

Somatic Experiencing Practitioner Training Assistant, Somatic Experiencing International, 2019 - present                   Somatic Experiencing Practitioner certification, Somatic Experiencing International, NYC, 2/2013 – 10/2015                             approved to provide personal education sessions

Somatic Abolitionism training and practice with Resmaa Menakem, Education for Racial Equity, 4/2022 - 11/2023

Biodynamic Craniosacral Work, Alchemy of Presence with Jenna Milner, Ithaca, NY,  12/2016 - 9/2019     

The Treatment of Trauma & the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model, workshop with Richard Schwartz, PhD, National Institute for the Psychotherapies, NYC, 11/2013                             

Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) training, NYC, 10/2013                             

Child and Adolescent Trauma Treatment, advanced year MSW concentration, sponsored by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 8/2013 - 5/2014            

NATURE CONNECTION AND IMMERSION

Forest Therapy Guide, Association for Nature and Forest Therapy, 1/2025 - present

School of Lost Borders, Mirroring the Four Shields of Human Nature with Sylvia Talavera and Gretchen Gerlach, 3/2025

MINDFULNESS AND EXPLORATION OF CONSCIOUSNESS

Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program with Jack Kornfield and Tara Brach, 1/2025 - present

Student of the Diamond Approach Work, 10/2010 - present

Psychedelic Therapy and Integration, Fluence, 4/2024 - 5/2024

Lineage Project Teacher Training, Lineage Project: Mindfulness Practices for At-Risk Youth, NYC, 1/2013                co-facilitated a yoga and mindfulness class at Humanities Prep with Bart van Melik, 2013

Certified Yoga Instructor, Jivamukti Yoga School, Rhinebeck, NY with David Life and Sharon Gannon, 5/2010

PSYCHOTHERAPY TRAINING

Couples Therapy Training and Education Program, William Alanson White Institute, NYC, 9/2017 – 5/2018

Intensive Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Program, William Alanson White Institute, NYC, 10/2015 – 6/2016

Eating Disorders, Compulsions & Addictions Service (EDCAS), William Alanson White Institute, NYC, 9/2013 – 6/2015

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Foundational Training, Behavioral Tech, NYC, 3/2014