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 and began to transform.
Slowly, with the guidance of yoga and meditation teachers, therapists and healing arts practitioners, I began to heal, revive, and do the often uncomfortable, sometimes excruciating work of finding myself.
Along the way I built and ultimately closed down a successful business; I started a non-profit that I failed to ever get off the ground; I wrote a novel that never got published. I began teaching yoga and dedicating extensive time to practice and deep inner work, gaining certifications in and teaching Hatha, Vinyasa, Kundalini and Pre-natal yoga; Yoga for 12-Step recovery; mindfulness-based meditation; I trained as an end-of-life and birth doula and became certified as a Yoga Therapist.
As I stripped away the veneer of success and accomplishment I uncovered what lay beneath. It took deep inner work and guidance from powerful teachers, healers, and coaches every step of the way, and I pass on these practices with discernment and deep reverence for the lineages from which they have been received.
I refer to these years as my mid-life retirement, in which I depleted resources I’d amassed in my first career and modest but meaningful generational support of the scale that generally flies under the radar when we talk about wealth. This experience helps me understand the nuanced ways in which financial distress can be experienced throughout the socio-economic ladder and intersect with layers of privilege, which I see so often in my practice.
In my forties I met my now husband, went back to school, and navigated the challenging path of attempting to start a family later in life while supporting a small family business and starting my career as a therapist. In 2018, we relocated from Brooklyn, NY to the Hudson Valley of Upstate New York, where we cultivate and harvest much of our own food and work to expand our farmstead operation through regenerative practices with deep reverence and gratitude the Mohican ancestors who stewarded this land before us. And in 2024, we welcomed our son, the light of our lives.
Now, as a psychotherapist, incorporating my training as a Yoga Therapist, I integrate mindfulness-based & somatic practices with cognitive behavioral, strengths based and interpersonal practices and Internal Family Systems, supporting clients to access and leverage the inner resources that move them towards short and long term life goals with resilience, integrity, and connection.
A relentless seeker and wisdom keeper, I come from generations of devotion to progressive faith-based and interfaith peace building and social justice leadership, and am a student of a constellation of teachers who guide me to live into my values, deepen my inner work, and transmit what they’ve taught through my own offerings.
