HEALTH hUmanities

Centering Arts in Health Care

Educator & Innovator

• Master’s in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

• Co-Executive Producer, Thriving in Scrubs podcast

• Co-Founder of Narrative Medicine Journal, Cura

• Co-Chair of Engagement Committee and Reviewer, Bellevue Literary Review

private practice

Navigating Transition, Loss, & Growth

Narrative Coach

  • Individualized Support

  • 1:1 and Group Sessions

  • Specialty Areas: Transition, Loss, Grief, Growth, Reflection, Creativity, Matresence & Parenthood, Navigating Clinical Work/Life

  • Narrative Medicine Workshops (forthcoming!)

 

About Me

I love working with people who, for one reason or another, find themselves in waters of transition. Together, we can design supportive scaffolds for navigating change and transformation, and imagine into new ways of being in this world.

“Who am I?” “Who was I?” “Who am I becoming?” — whether loud or quiet, these questions require our attention, in order to shape our life. Especially during times of change. If we commit to authenticity, humility, and curiosity, we can emerge from times of reckoning more fully ourselves than we were before. Equipped with clarity, peace, and internal resources for the next leg of the journey.

I consider myself an apprentice and weaver of stories. I earned a Master of Science in Narrative Medicine - the study of stories and how they can be used for healing - at Columbia University in 2014. I designed a similar course of study as an undergraduate at NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, graduating in 2009. In 2017-2018, I was awarded a fellowship from Columbia University to explore “Narrative Medicine as a Wisdom Practice.”

I trained and earned certification as a birth doula in 2010 and a full spectrum doula in 2012, as well as Kripalu and restorative yoga teacher in 2015-2016, a Wellcoaches’ Certified Health and Wellbeing Coach in 2016, and as a founding Lyra Health Mental Health Coach in 2017.

In my private practice, I collaborate with clients to tailor an individualized approach to meet personal and professional goals.

In the world of medicine, I spent a decade from 2015-2025 designing, building, and directing a wellbeing program for physicians training at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital, as Senior Manager of Professional Fulfillment and Wellbeing in Graduate Medical Education. I completed the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine’s Stress Management and Resiliency Training in 2017, NYC Health & Hospitals Helping Healers Heal’s Stress, Trauma & Resilience Training in 2018, and Physician Peer Support Program training at NYU Langone Health in 2019.

 

Recent & Current Projects