Odessa is a trauma-informed somatic psychotherapist (LMFT) and dance and movement facilitator with an MA in Somatic Psychology from CIIS and over 2 decades of dance and contact improv experience. 

She helps both singles and partnered people have more easeful, connected and meaningful relationships through trauma-informed somatics, dance and movement healing, and resilience-building self-care practices.

She has been practicing and teaching Contact Improvisation as a form of self inquiry and relationship alchemy for over ten years. She also has a background in community and grassroots organizing in central New Jersey around education rights and diverse local representation.

Odessa is a cis gender, able-bodied, biracial white-presenting latina.  She is deeply curious about the intersection of personal and collective trauma, collective nervous system states and expression, and how we can use somatics to integrate our trauma for better relationship, community and planet.  She facilitates workshops and retreats using somatics and movement as the platform through which to explore connection, consent, boundaries, conflict resolution, interdependence and inclusion. In her psychotherapeutic private practice, she weaves somatics, interpersonal neurobiology, polyvagal theory, attachment work, and social and racial justice frameworks.