Therapist, BODYWORKER,
Cultural Anthropologist, SPEAKER

I have a Masters in Mental Health Counseling (LMHC) and a Masters of Cultural Anthropology (MA), alongside 16 years of international clinical experience— working in urban and humanitarian emergency zones across 11 countries, most recently Iraq, Haiti, South Africa, Nigeria and Egypt. I speak English and French fluently.

Currently, in New York City, I am a licensed therapist seeing adolescent and adult clients as well as I teach a beautiful class at John Jay College, called Sociology of Mental Illness, where we explore culture and healing and how every human expresses pain and heals differently. Additionally, a big part of my life involves being a psychological consultant for varying international NGOs in conflict and post conflict regions. In this work, I train social workers and therapists in trauma and recovery.

I am trained in bodywork at Academie des Arts Therapeutiques, Geneva, Switzerland and I offer bodywork out of my Brooklyn treatment space where I blend emotional and physical healing.

In life, we all need to play and so I play & explore the world on my bike. Next, I will be racing around Central Park, around the island of Mallorca and then up is Ethiopia.

LET’S HEAL

MY SELF CARE STRATEGY

01

Get lost on my bike.

02

Laugh at myself & Don’t sweat the small stuff.

03

Add spice. Do something unexpected everyday.

04

Create morning rituals: a song, words I tell myself.

WHAT ABOUT YOU?

COME WORK WITH ME.

My Approach

I love what I do and believe deeply in the power of reclaiming our life stories and reclaiming our bodies. We store so much.

Those things that make you feel heavy, take a toll. Let's release them.

Healing can happen through many different paths. Around the world people suffer and heal in so many ways. Let me guide you through this process. It’s what I do best, and accompanying people on their healing journey brings me joy and meaning.

Testimonials

When Serena speaks you immediately feel her passion and joy for this work. This is rare. When you combine her clinical background with who she is and her experience working around the world it’s a dynamic combination of things. I loved working with Serena. -MT
A massage with Serena is truly healing to not just my physical body but also my mind and spirit.

She takes care to curate the experience to you as an individual: blending body oils of your choice, playing relaxing music and diffusing essential oils that always make me feel so relaxed. Serena is able to work thru those incredibly dense and tight knots in my back and neck with such skill, strength and patience without triggering my instinctual tendency toward tension.
A massage with Serena is always one of the best and most beautiful forms of self care for me and I’m eternally grateful.
-Jade Eshete