Clinical Director Mind Body Awareness Project | 2015 — Present
The Mind Body Awareness Project has spent two decades transforming underserved communities with mindfulness-based mental health tools that support equity, healing, and empowerment.
As Clinical Director, I oversee trauma-informed programming across California correctional facilities and juvenile justice settings — leading groups, developing curriculum, training staff and peer facilitators, and providing clinical supervision. My work spans direct service, program leadership, and professional development for educators, clinicians, and law enforcement nationally and internationally.
Key contributions include expanding mindfulness programming to serve hundreds of incarcerated individuals annually, developing proprietary curricula integrating trauma resilience, emotional literacy, and post-traumatic growth, and presenting at Stanford University's Contemplation by Design Summit.
Director of Wellness, Psychotherapist & Teacher Ta'leef Collective | 2011 — 2020
Ta'leef Collective is a Bay Area-based nonprofit serving Muslim communities, newcomers to Islam, and returning citizens. For nearly a decade I served as Director of Wellness and staff psychotherapist — conducting individual and couples therapy, facilitating therapeutic circles for youth and the general public, and teaching weekly mindfulness-based stress reduction classes.
I also developed and delivered curriculum for Ta'leef Academy, the organization's quarterly international training program, covering mindfulness, emotional intelligence, trauma and crisis, and counseling fundamentals.
Co-Founder Oudimentary | 2004 — Present
Oudimentary is a sacred fragrance and aloeswood company dedicated to sourcing and sharing the highest quality agarwood products. Rooted in centuries of contemplative and medicinal tradition — from Islamic and Buddhist ritual to Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine — aloeswood sits at the intersection of the sacred and the sensory. A passion project as much as a business.
The Mind Body Awareness Project has spent two decades transforming underserved communities with mindfulness-based mental health tools that support equity, healing, and empowerment.
As Clinical Director, I oversee trauma-informed programming across California correctional facilities and juvenile justice settings — leading groups, developing curriculum, training staff and peer facilitators, and providing clinical supervision. My work spans direct service, program leadership, and professional development for educators, clinicians, and law enforcement nationally and internationally.
Key contributions include expanding mindfulness programming to serve hundreds of incarcerated individuals annually, developing proprietary curricula integrating trauma resilience, emotional literacy, and post-traumatic growth, and presenting at Stanford University's Contemplation by Design Summit.
Director of Wellness, Psychotherapist & Teacher Ta'leef Collective | 2011 — 2020
Ta'leef Collective is a Bay Area-based nonprofit serving Muslim communities, newcomers to Islam, and returning citizens. For nearly a decade I served as Director of Wellness and staff psychotherapist — conducting individual and couples therapy, facilitating therapeutic circles for youth and the general public, and teaching weekly mindfulness-based stress reduction classes.
I also developed and delivered curriculum for Ta'leef Academy, the organization's quarterly international training program, covering mindfulness, emotional intelligence, trauma and crisis, and counseling fundamentals.
Co-Founder Oudimentary | 2004 — Present
Oudimentary is a sacred fragrance and aloeswood company dedicated to sourcing and sharing the highest quality agarwood products. Rooted in centuries of contemplative and medicinal tradition — from Islamic and Buddhist ritual to Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine — aloeswood sits at the intersection of the sacred and the sensory. A passion project as much as a business.
Education
Goddard College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
Goddard College
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
Sofia University
Masters of Arts (M.A.)
Psychology/counseling
Mindfulness-based and trauma-informed interventions, somatic and Hakomi approaches, creative expression, transpersonal, existential, and humanist approaches, CBT, expressive art therapy, systems approaches, and narrative therapy.
Masters of Arts (M.A.)
Psychology/counseling
Mindfulness-based and trauma-informed interventions, somatic and Hakomi approaches, creative expression, transpersonal, existential, and humanist approaches, CBT, expressive art therapy, systems approaches, and narrative therapy.
Licenses & Memberships:
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California Board Of Behavioral Sciences, L.M.F.T. #132754
Member, California Association of Marriage Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Board Member, Mind Body Awareness Project
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, California Board Of Behavioral Sciences, L.M.F.T. #132754
Member, California Association of Marriage Family Therapists (CAMFT)
Board Member, Mind Body Awareness Project