My work is grounded in both lived experience and professional training in mental health and healing.
I hold a degree in Counseling Psychology and have training in mental health support and mindfulness-based practices.
My approach is trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and rooted in creating safe, accessible spaces for individuals and communities—especially those from immigrant and underserved backgrounds.
While I am not currently practicing as a licensed therapist in the United States, my work draws deeply from therapeutic principles, including:
As I continue to grow my work here in Maine, I am also working toward becoming a licensed therapist.
My goal is to bridge the gap between mental health, culture, and community healing—so that care is not only clinical, but lived, accessible, and felt in everyday life.
I partner with organizations, healthcare providers, and community groups to offer:
The offerings below are all part of this approach—bringing mental health into the body, into community, and into spaces where people already are.
Through the Maine Afro Yoga Project and her broader work, Nuna brings movement, mindfulness, and healing into spaces where people have too often been left out — immigrant women, women of color, survivors, and those navigating cultural displacement and trauma.
Her approach is trauma-informed and grounded in mental health, using movement as a way to support emotional regulation, connection to the body, and a sense of belonging.
“She made the room feel like home — and then she moved us.”
Nuna facilitates trauma-informed, community-based mental health spaces where people can come as they are — to breathe, to speak, to be witnessed, and to reconnect with themselves.
Her circles are grounded in both lived experience and mental health practice, holding space for the realities people carry — immigration, grief, violence, loss, and the quiet weight of navigating multiple worlds.
These are not performances. They are real, human spaces where healing happens through presence, conversation, and connection.
She also works with caregivers, frontline staff, and professionals who hold others every day and need space to be held themselves.
Nuna brings healing into nature through ecotherapy-informed and trauma-aware practices, creating spaces where people can reconnect — not only with themselves, but with the world around them.
Her work recognizes that for many immigrant and communities of color, outdoor spaces have not always felt safe or accessible. She intentionally creates experiences that shift that relationship — making nature feel welcoming, grounding, and healing.
In nature, something opens. Conversations deepen. The body softens. And healing becomes more possible.
“There is something that opens in people when they step outside. The trees hold things the room can’t.”
“There is something that opens in people when they step outside. The trees hold things the room can’t.”
Whether it’s a yoga class, a healing circle, or an outdoor session — tell Nuna what your community needs.
