As a healer with 20-plus years of experience, I specialize in expressive arts therapy, trauma, and cultural humility, weaving various therapeutic arts into professional mental health services to individuals, couples, families, groups, and organizations. In addition, I facilitate professional trainings, community, and affinity conversations. It is a gift to stand with humans on a bridge that seems too wide to cross, only to find the gap narrows as the connections grow. As hope sprouts, the journey that once seemed implausible now feels manageable. I see myself as creating a container in a divine experience towards a healing process; bringing “creative healing, for created souls”.

Graduating from Lesley University in Expressive Arts Therapy with a specialization in Clinical Mental Health Counseling, I have traveled to South Africa and Guatemala, exploring the intersections of music and visual art, cultural identity, and trauma. Tikvah’s thesis, entitled A Generational Perspective on the Effects of Community Violence on Mothers of the Africana Diaspora and the Curative Benefits of Soulful Expressive Arts paved a particular focus on community healing with Black women. Since then I have been trained in modalities to include, but not limited to IFS, EMDR, TF-CBT, Sand Tray, Authentic Movement, Parenting Journey, Financial Social Work, and DBT.

I am currently a Clinical Manager at a non-profit organization and consultant/project director curating restorative healing retreats for BIPOC professional leaders, where we center and teach a practice of Restorative Justice and rest praxis. In specific clinical experiences, I have worked in the following: school settings, community and healing centers, shelters, at-risk living facilities, hospice, in-home therapy, outpatient community clinics, partial hospital programs, substance outpatient abuse programs, psychiatric inpatient, physical rehabilitation centers, residential care facilities, psychiatric rehabilitation services, and veteran hospitals. I am honored to say my youngest client was a 2-week-old infant, and my oldest client was 102.

I am deeply involved and rooted in my local community, as well as an active member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated. I serve on several boards and advisory councils, and the majority of my community work centers on servicing the Black and Orthodox Jewish communities.

Outside of my passion for being a healer, my time is generously spent loving my family and Kerry Blue Terrier. While I am serious about my love and devotion to family, identity, work, and community, I thrive laughing, dancing, listening to music, and roller skating.