This isn’t psychotherapy, and it’s not mindset coaching. It’s a cognitive process built on frameworks that help you see the architecture of your inner world with clarity. The work draws from several grounded traditions: constructivist psychology, cognitive appraisal theory, behavioral decision sciences, attachment theory, and parts-based models of the mind. It’s also informed by principles found in spiritual philosophy: presence, agency, and self-observation as pathways to change.

My lens is shaped by years in international development and global affairs: first through academic training at NYU, then through professional work in the United Nations’ high-stakes environments where decisions carried real consequences for systems and communities. That world trained me to analyze complexity, track competing narratives, and understand how human behavior shifts under pressure.

Because change isn’t only emotional it’s also educational; I also use a learning structure informed by Bloom’s Taxonomy, which moves clients from basic awareness to deep understanding to real-world application.

It means we don’t just talk about your patterns; you learn to recognize, evaluate, and ultimately transform them.

In Brave, these frameworks aren’t used academically. They’re tools for exposing the unconscious agreements you’ve been living inside, the strategies you default to when you feel unsafe, and the stories that silently shape your decisions. Once you can see those clearly, they stop running the show.

The cognitive work gives you language, structure, and direction. It unknots the “why” behind your patterns so the somatic work can land more deeply and so your changes actually stick.

Insight can open the door, but your body has to walk through it. Somatic work is where internal change becomes embodied, where patterns stop living in your mind and start releasing from your nervous system.

This part of Brave integrates my years of formal training in yoga and embodiment modalities, including multiple yoga teaching certifications and my ongoing Integrative Somatic Practitioner training. This background gives structure and skill to what many people misunderstand as “just movement”.

Somatic work in Brave draws from principles of nervous system regulation, quantum physics, embodied awareness, and yogic methodology. It includes breath-based practices, slow intentional movement, stillness, and techniques for tracking sensation without overwhelm. These methods help you complete stress cycles, discharge stored patterns, and build the physical capacity to stay present under pressure.

Most high-functioning people are brilliant at thinking and terrible at feeling. Their bodies carry the backlog of tension, shutdown, hypervigilance, and emotional debris that doesn’t resolve on its own.

Somatic work creates coherence between mind and body so that your insights are FELT not only UNDERSTOOD.

The goal is integration.
When your body feels safe, your mind becomes clear.
When your mind is clear, your choices become brave.

This is what makes the work sustainable: a new baseline for how you live every day.