Pain is universal and so is healing.
Throughout generations, we encode information in every cell of our bodies to help us survive and thrive in our environment.
We carry ancestral wisdom that is passed on from our ancestors; a process known as epigenetics. This means that the fears and anguishes of our grandparents and great-grandparents are somehow still guiding how we participate in our environment today. The traumas passed on from generations added to our own traumatic experiences create profound disconnections to ourselves, our community, and nature.
The encouraging news is that we also carry intuitive wisdom that helped them persevere through challenging moments. It is no surprise we seek the soothing sound of a river or the melodic songs of birds to find a sense of comfort and belonging in the midst of incredible pain.
Everyone has the intuitive wisdom to heal ourselves, our families and our community. While mental diagnoses are helpful to narrow treatment modalities, we find them reductionistic and deterministic in nature. I work with YOU to create a treatment plan integrating your internal wisdom and diverse, evidence-based, psychotherapeutic modalities to support your healing journey.
Nabi De Angulo, LCSW, CCTP
I am honored to join our creative energy to build something beautiful. I was born and raised in the mountains of Bolivia in a community where our medicine came from the land and our health insurance was our relationships with those who surround us.
I pursued my masters in Social Policy and Practice from the University of Pennsylvania in the United States to focus my study in the field of trauma and resiliency through an academic lens. Post graduate school, I studied under temazcaleros, herbalists, body-based practitioners and continue to be inspired by those who have allowed me the privilege to walk alongside some of the most painful moments of their lives.
My life's quest is for the archetypes of peace and joy. I share with you what was gifted to us by Pachamama- an invitation to return home, and remember that we belong.
What informs my practice?
When I think about the most formative teachings that led me to this work, I return to the thorny blackberry bushes created by the hens living in the back of my childhood home. This is a place I would visit often in moments of distress. This is where I felt safe, nourished and protected. I continued to seek nature as my anchor as an immigrant in foreign land, as an outsider to mainstream psychotherapy and human in this chaotic world.
I am also informed my mothers. My own biological mother and all the mothers that showed me what it means to show up to the world with tenderness, compassion and love in the midst of great injustice, exhaustion and despair. I've learned to become a sacred space holder by the mothers whom I've walked alongside their pregnancy, have invited me into their birthing space and have confined in me their heroic experiences of raising children against all odds.
Amongst these powerful mothers, I met Kiovana Tantra, Abby Galvin and Nevine Michaan, who introduced to Katonah yoga, and gave me the opportunity to learn from them as I myself became a mother. Katonah yoga beautiful intertwined my love affair with nature and gave me the permission to reference Great Nature as the therapeutic modality that has helped many organize ourselves in time and space and see our bodies not as a problem, but as divine instrument to participate in this short and beautiful life.
Last but not least, I have adapted and reformed the treatment modalities and therapeutic techniques with every person I've had the privilege to work with. My clients have showed me that trauma is a powerful force that when harnessed and cared for with wisdom and compassion, it can create profound transformation in their lives and their communities.
My academic journey
I graduated with a Bachelors in Social Work (BSW) from Eastern University in 2014 and proceeded to get a Masters In Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a specialization in the clinical practice. I attended to numerous workshops and trainings and continue education credits on complex trauma among them are the following:
Sand Therapy For Children
Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, CCTP in 2017 by the Arizona Trauma Institute
200 Hour Katonah yoga training:
Trauma-Informed yoga from Thrive Trauma Institute of Houston
My Experience
Why do I love this work?