Along with being a licensed psychotherapist, I’m also an ex bodyworker and bartender, lapsed artist, and camrade in lived experience.

I specialize in embodiment, a framework that is rooted in emergent neuroscience alongside timeless ways of knowing and being a human.

I continuously study body-mind-spirit healing modalities. I most recently completed two intensives with Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, aka author of Women who Run with the Wolves. My other core trainings/influences include: Polyvagal Theory via Stephen Porges and Deb Dana, Parts Work (aka Internal Family Systems by Richard Schwartz), Jungian Somatics by Jane Clapp, the Embodied Recovery Institute (informed by both Sensorimotor Psychotherapy and Somatic Experiencing), iRest Yoga-Nidra/Meditation, and Kimberly Ann Johnson’s Jaguar school.

I earned a Master of Social Work (MSW) from Western Michigan University, where I interned in community mental health and a state psychiatric hospital while serving as a teaching/research assistant. I also hold a degree in English/creative-writing from Kalamazoo College.

I previously worked as a certified massage & reflexology + reiki practitioner, alongside multi-hustling several micro businesses, service industry jobs, and gigs in the arts.

I’m a proud first-generation college graduate and only child of a singular single-mom.

I adore my little black cat Morpheus, quiet, movement, the desert, fancyish clothes, free-spirits, books, and finding beauty everywhere. 

ps: my legal last-name is Golo’d’a but I choose to go by my original Polish surname Goło’t’a wherever I can — this is important to me for a million personal reasons