I am a licensed acupuncturist, PhD medical anthropologist, and lifelong student of how stress, healing, and meaning move through the human body. My early work took me to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where I spent many years studying mothers and babies during Africa’s World War, exploring the epigenetic and embodied impacts of intergenerational trauma. Through
this work, I came to understand myself, at heart, as a stress researcher—studying how lived experience shapes physiology, resilience, and health across generations.

Today, my clinical and teaching work brings these insights into the treatment room. As an acupuncturist, I specialize in helping people feel how qi moves—or becomes stuck—within their own muscles, tissues, and lived patterns. I teach what I call Movement Medicine, an embodied approach to understanding stagnation, restoring flow, and resolving mental and physical pain or dysfunction through mindful movement, awareness, and skilled intervention.

 

Sound and voice are also central to my practice. I create original sonic meditations and chants designed to support meditation, nervous system regulation, and mindfulness. I also teach vocal sound healing, helping people find the sounds within themselves as a pathway to expression, regulation, and healing—both physically and emotionally.

In addition to my clinical work, I am a meditation teacher (with a focus on non-dual awareness), a birth doula, and a death doula. I feel deeply honored to support people at life’s thresholds—beginnings, endings, and the many transitions in between—offering grounded presence, compassionate guidance, and practices that reconnect them to their own innate wisdom.

My work bridges science and spirit, anthropology and acupuncture, movement and stillness, voice and silence—always with the goal of helping people come back into relationship with their bodies, their breath, and their capacity to heal.