Welcome, I’m so glad you’re here.

I’m Dr. Nubia (she/her), a bilingual and bicultural psychiatrist and somatic psychotherapist. I support women of the global majority — and our allies who have spent a long time in survival mode and are ready to reconnect with their bodies and themselves.

The women I work with are thoughtful, brilliant, and deeply caring — and exhausted from holding everything together. They’ve learned to survive by staying strong, staying busy, or staying in control, even when their bodies are asking for rest.

I come from migration, resilience, and generations of women who survived by pushing through. Growing up in predominantly white spaces, I learned to quiet parts of myself to belong. In medicine, I was taught to treat the mind without honoring the body or spirit — even when my own body was suffering.

After a traumatic birth, the coping strategies that once helped me stopped working. My body was asking for a kind of care I had never been taught to give myself.

I turned to the supports I knew — talk therapy and Western medicine — but without a trauma-informed lens, they couldn't hold what I was carrying. Being encouraged to talk about what happened before my nervous system was ready left me overwhelmed and retraumatized. Nothing was "wrong" with me — my body simply needed a slower, more embodied path.

That experience led me to somatic therapy and holistic modalities — the first approaches that offered the safety, pacing, and mind–body connection my system needed. This now forms the foundation of how I practice and how I show up with clients.

Working with these approaches also taught me that healing rarely happens through one modality alone. In my work, I welcome and refer to trusted holistic practitioners — acupuncturists, herbalists, sound healers, trauma-informed yoga facilitators — because your healing path doesn't have to look like anyone else's.

You've been holding it together for a long time. You don't have to do that here.