My work grows out of a commitment to critiquing coloniality, sanism, and neuronormativity within euro-centric traditions of psychiatric and psychological science, whilst appreciating the scientific contributions of psychiatric and psychological medicine. For too long, the psychiatric tradition has claimed singular authority over mental health, dismissing or erasing other healing traditions. I recognize energy work lineages as valid scientific systems in their own right that hold crucial insights into balance, transformation, and relationality that are often missing in disease-centric bio-reductionistic strains of psychiatry. I am trained in an active lineage of energy work that is rooted in restoring harmony between self and collective, not in transcending or extracting from the human experience. My doula training in Berlin, combined with years of mentorship in energy work practices, grounds my work in traditions that honor embodiment, interdependence, and community care.

Academically, I studied sociology and anthropology at Smith College (summa cum laude), with a focus on indigenous feminist methodologies, critical science studies, women of color feminisms, and queer crip methodologies. I also earned a Master’s in Medical Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Amsterdam. My thesis critiqued disease-centric bioreductionist strains of psychiatry through the lens of energy work and decolonial trauma studies, showing how diagnosis and treatment can be reimagined when we view psychiatry as one lineage of care among many, rather than the singular authority.