ABOUT ME

I came to somatic work because I know what it is like to feel that there is more life inside you than you can fully reach.

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You can understand yourself, have language for your history and know what you want—and still find that something in the body keeps holding back. I do not sit outside that question as someone who has solved it. My own life continues to be an experiment in becoming more present, more honest and more able to follow what makes me feel alive.

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I am queer, nonbinary trans, neurodivergent and German-Iranian. I am white-passing and grew up with my white German mother after my parents separated. As a result, many of my Iranian roots remain cut off from me, and I do not speak Farsi. I have often had to find my own relationship to identity, belonging and home rather than inheriting one that felt complete.

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I originally trained as an artist and studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts. The artist in me has never gone away. It is present in my curiosity, in my resistance to fixed answers and in my interest in what might emerge when we stop forcing ourselves into familiar shapes.

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I particularly enjoy working with queer and trans people, femmes, neurodivergent people, queers and femmes of colour, people from working-class backgrounds, artists, activists, change-makers and freaks. I am interested in people who are carving out their own path, even when they are still finding the courage or capacity to live it.

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Somatic Experiencing is at the core of my work. I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and have worked across several hundred individual sessions. I have also spent approximately two and a half years assisting Somatic Experiencing trainings. My practice is further informed by Bodynamic, Integral Somatic Psychology, relational work and my background in art.

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