People often ask me what I do for stress relief. My answer is always the same: I find water. As a Florida native, water has always held a special place in my life.
 

My path has woven together movement, language, and meaning from the start. I began ballet at five and later became a competitive ballroom dancer and teacher. Intrigued by the language of dance, I studied French alongside English Literature, then went on to complete graduate work in French, Italian, and Art.
 

For over twenty years I have developed and refined rehabilitation approaches, beginning with older adults and later specializing in people with traumatic injuries, especially brain injury.

 

This practical work unfolded alongside my academic study: I earned my PhD in Theology at Boston University with a focus on trauma, after studying at Union Theological Seminary in New York in systematics, religion, and psychology. Today, I teach at Fordham University and in seminaries, working with chaplains and ministers who attend to trauma.
 

My clinical and pastoral training includes work in eating disorders, compassion fatigue, and trauma therapies such as somatic experiencing and psychoanalysis. I now work with clients living with massive trauma — physical and psychological — to help them move their whole selves toward integration.
 

My commitment is to what Edith Stein called the psycho-physical, spiritual self — an understanding of human life that honors the body, the psyche, and the search for meaning.