Insight & Integration Through Body Mind Spirit Wholeness
Insight & Integration Through Body Mind Spirit Wholeness
Strength based, trauma informed, mindfulness development thoughtfully crafted shaped by identifying inner desires.
Astrology, Tarot, Palm Reading & Past Lives
II’ve been learning and working with these modalities since I was 13. My mom taught me astrology and she learned from a woman in the generation before her.
Somatics Yoga/Dance Pleasure
My growth and healing journey was finding practitioners who integrated the body, that reached the pre-verbal knowing that happens in the body as developmental patterns change and grow. That was hard to find, so I became what I desired in order to support others who need the structures I needed too.
dynamics family Ancestral ties
Nothing happens in a vacuum. The dynamics of our inheritance shapes us on many levels. Here we explore those energies and utilize what helps us and release what no longer serves.
If we haven’t met in person, the first step is to book a 20 minute discovery call to connect.
Moving Forward
Booking a Tarot or an Astrology Session is a great next step. A single session to gain clairty on a question you have; explore your inner archetypes and energies; determine your soul’s purpose through your birth chart.
A path to working on growth and manifesting your desires
Astro-embodiment coaching
Let’s work with your strengths.
Let’s identify your astrological and developmental timing.
Let’s bring your desires into embodiment.
Areas of Specialization
I work with individuals and build groups that explore:
Creative art therapies
Major life transitions
Relationship beginnings and endings
Career transitions
Business start ups
Ancestral roots
Soul purpose
Increased pleasure, sensuality and peace
About Mera
Mera began working with tarot and astrology in her early teens. She learned originally through her family which combines Celtic, English, Eastern European, Jewish and deep American roots.
Exploring her ancestral roots and past lives is something that she has done through meditation, intuition practices, and genealogy research of her matrilineal lineage. She works with clients intuitively to explore past lives. Mera is trained in past life regression therapy. Her work is both trauma informed and healing centered.
As a Psychotherapist she has worked with trauma informed methods in hospitals, inpatient, outpatient and partial hospital settings as well as in schools as a Social Worker with tweens & teens. Over her 40+ years of practice she has specialized in working with many people who benefit from trauma informed care including marginalized communities.
As a business owner she has a successful NYRenFaire booth called Divination & Bodycraft. She opened and closed (after becoming a mother) a successful private therapy practice (18 years) that specialized in working with couples, families and individuals.
Creative Embodiment
Her embodiment practice and studies began with dance and she performed as a dancer/actress through her teens, young adulthood with her last performance in her forties. She is a certified yoga teacher, a licensed massage therapist, a Gestalt body worker, a pleasure coach, and received certification as a dance/movement therapist.
As a Visual Artist, her work has appeared in juried and non juried shows; Her writing work has been anthologized and published in psychology and astrology journals and newsletters.
The creative arts feature strongly in her coaching work. She has been called on to lead mental health practitioners in continuing education professional development groups as well as a variety of populations in the development of rituals for social emotional empowerment.
As a coach, she has practiced in the Conspiring Women Reciprocal Coaching Program and Mama Gena’s School of Womanly Arts.
Education &
Qualifications
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Masters of Social Work (MSW) | New School for Social Research
B.A. in Theater | Queens College CUNY
MA in Psychology | Fordham University -
✺ Past Life Regression Therapy certification from Brian Weiss, Omega Institute
✺ Dance/Movement Therapy Institute of Sociotherapy in New York City
✺ Clinical Training in Mind/Body Medicine Harvard Medical School
✺ Eating disorder therapies International Association of Eating Disorder Therapists
✺ Social emotional learning through the arts UCLArts & Healing Organization
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Rituals for Loss, Healing and Celebration | Ackerman Institute NYC 2005
EMDR | NASW-NJ 2005
The Body Knows, The Body Reveals:Using Expressive Movement and Body Awareness | American Group Psychotherapy Association, NYC 2005
Trauma Informed Stress Management | Center for Trauma Psychology 2006
Speaking While Staying Connected, Cultivating Presence & Combating Anxiety | Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society 2019
Trauma Informed Care | American Council for School Social Work 2014
Helping Teens Talk Across Difference | Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society 2019
Children’s/Teen’s Literature for Growth and Development | Rutgers University
Art Therapy and Research | NJ Art Therapy Association 2005
Understanding, Managing & Treating Executive Function Disorder | Community School Inc NJ 2005
Best Practices in Bullying Prevention | Hudson County Social Emotional Learning Consortium
Managing Change | Rutgers School of Social Work 2013
Mindfulness training | Hudson County Professional Development Consortium
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Social Work Advocacy for Art and Meaning in Culture | Monmouth University, NJ
Diversity and Inclusion Training | NASW-NJ 2005
Respecting Difference: Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression | Rutgers 2004
Talking and Not Talking about Race in Groups | Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society, 2015
Discrimination Awareness in the Workplace | 2017