Hi. I’m Rebecca and I love nothing more than helping people get unstuck and rooted in their relationships.
I’m a trauma therapist and educator. I guide integrative practices that support people in turning toward the forces and imprints that shape them, inviting clear witnessing, coherence, connection, and the undoing of the pain of aloneness. I specialize in integrative modalities for relational trauma and nervous system revolution. My work supports experiential learning that cultivates trust in the wisdom of protective systems, honors transgenerational trauma’s legacy, and develops Connectfulness® practices to foster relational wellness across generations.
All of my life, I’ve been fascinated by what it means to human together.
This curiosity has led me to explore deeply through art, film, storytelling, experiential learning, relationships, sexuality, the human reproductive cycle, intergenerational trauma, parenthood, attachment, loss, human behavior, and performance. This same drive has guided my professional journey.
Since 2003, I’ve practiced as a psychotherapist, specializing in relational trauma healing. I am trained in Somatic Experiencing, Internal Family Systems, Intimacy From The Inside Out, Relational Life Therapy, Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapy, Deep Brain Reorienting, and am certified in the STAIR Method—a new neurobiological approach. I weave these into an integrative, body-based, brain-savvy, experiential relational practice I call Connectfulness®.
I reside on the unceded ancestral lands of the Lenape people, in New York’s Hudson Valley. I’m a neurospicy cis woman shaped by a diasporic lineage, attuned to patterns of oppression, justice-seeking, and resistance. Outside of work, I enjoy wandering through mountains and cities, deep conversations, soul-laughter, savoring time with family, listening to trees, stargazing, getting lost in fantasy fiction, starting projects I might never finish, and slowing down.
My experiential teaching style reflects decades of leadership—from wilderness education to facilitating writing and relationship workshops.
I’m committed to a compassion-filled, clear, and direct approach. Because honestly, if good intentions and paint-by-numbers relationship strategies worked, relationships wouldn’t be so sticky. But humans are messy, and so are relationships. That messiness is where the real transformation happens.
After more than 20 years in practice, one truth keeps emerging:
Everything we are and everything we do is shaped by relationship—especially the complexity of relating to ourselves. The places where we get stuck call us to turn toward discomfort and disconnection, creating space for trust, coherence, and the capacity to navigate conflict and repair to emerge.
I’m here to support you in cultivating your own moment-by-moment, imperfect, and beautifully messy practice. I call it Connectfulness.
There’s no such thing as a perfect relationship, constant self-trust, or the “right” mindset every day. Life unfolds, and it’s in those real, raw moments that these practices matter most.
They’re not about control or perfection. They offer a gentle reorientation—an invitation to turn toward yourself, again and again.
That shift ripples into your relationships and the world in quiet, unexpected, powerful ways.
When you’re ready, I’d be honored to walk alongside you.
LICENSURE, TRAININGS & EXPERIENCE
New York Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-R) #076600
Colorado Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) CSW.09926033
Massachusetts Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker (LICSW) #122605
Florida telehealth provider registration #TPSW5468
Masters in Social Work, New York University (2003)
Bachelors in Fine Arts, Ithaca College (1997)
Deep Brain Reorienting, Level 1, (2025)
Intimacy from the Inside Out©, Basic IFIO/IFS Level 2, (2025)
Internal Family Systems, level 1, (2024)
Certified STAIR Method Therapist (2024), under the mentorship of Juliane Taylor Shore.
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (2023), approved SE Training Assistant (currently assisting SEI Faculty, Shideh Lennon’s Kingston NY cohort), approved SE personal session providers for beginning level SE students.
Certified Developmental and Relational Trauma Therapist through Healing Our Core Issues Institute (2021).
Certified Relational Life Therapist (2019), Facilitator/Supervisor (2022), & Bootcamp Instructor (2020).
Archetypal and Cross-Cultural Studies Institute (2018 & 2019) residences under Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Additional Post Graduate Training with:
Discernment Counseling
The Center for Sexual and Relationship Therapy at RWJ Medical School under Sandra Leiblum, PhD
The Postpartum Stress Center under Karen Kleinman
Seleni Institute
The Gottman Institute
International Institute for Animal Assisted Play Therapy™
American Board of Sports Psychology
Graduate Fellowship at Memorial Sloan Kettering
Additional training in leadership and experiential education with Outward Bound and Project U.S.E. and with TMI Project as a Workshop Leader