Welcome!

I’m Adina, a multidisciplinary practitioner, psychotherapist, facilitator, coach, consultant and teacher. I’m driven by a commitment to help others build rich, vibrant and sustainable tapestries of life, livelihood and community, anchored in ancestral wisdom and values. 

As a psychotherapist I support individuals, couples and families with a special focus on intergenerational family systems, aging, complex and ambiguous grief and loss, post-partum and fertility issues, financial and medical trauma, addiction recovery, career and other major life transitions, and the intersection of marriage with creative and business partnership.

From multi-faceted life experience, I know about these challenges and the nuanced intersections among them.

For over a decade in my twenties and thirties, I rose up through an exciting, successful career in the field of international economic and community development, working in twenty countries in sectors ranging from horticulture to hospitality to post-conflict recovery, including in a handful of war zones. I worked myself to the ground to prove my worth with no concept of how to rest, relax, or enjoy life. I juggled addictions, avoided deep relationships, and cultivated a facade of success and happiness to mask what was happening inside.

In my mid-30’s, suffering from PTSD and craving deeper purpose, I left my full-time consulting career. I built and ultimately closed down a successful business and started a non-profit that I failed to ever get off the ground. I wrote a novel that never got published. As I stripped away the veneer of success and accomplishment I began the often uncomfortable, sometimes excruciating work of turning inward and uncovering what lay beneath. 

It took deep inner work and guidance from skilled teachers, therapists, healers, and coaches every step of the way. Along the way I gained certifications and years of teaching experience in Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini and Pre-natal yoga; Yoga for 12-Step recovery; mindfulness-based meditation. I trained as an end-of-life doula and gained certification as a Yoga Therapy and transformational coach.

In my early forties I met my partner, began dedicating part of my time to supporting a small family business, and navigated the challenging path of balancing that with starting a family later in life, while going back to school for a Master’s Degree in Mental Health Counseling and starting my career as a psychotherapist. In 2018, my little family relocated from Brooklyn, NY to the Hudson Valley of Upstate New York, where we spent a good part of our time tending to a growing farmstead operation, growing much of our food and tending chickens, goats and bees. And in 2024, we welcomed our son Solomon, my greatest teacher.

A relentless seeker and devoted wisdom keeper, I continue to be deeply immersed in my own personal and ancestral healing work, and am deeply grateful to the constellation of teachers who guide me through it.