Hi, I’m Monica
Growing up in New York, the only place I ever truly felt confident was on the track — when I was sprinting toward school records. But off the track, life felt trickier.
From a young age, I felt different.
I grew up in a loving home, but like many people, it was complicated. My dad left when I was seven, leaving a quiet ache that was luckily softened by my incredible grandparents who stepped in with love and stability to help raise me while my mother worked to support us.
School felt really painful. In a family of book-smart doctors, I was the kid with a learning difference.
When I was diagnosed with dyslexia and sent to the “resource room” for support, it felt like the whole school could see what was “wrong” with me. I felt deep embarrassment and shame about being different and learned early on to mask my differences, to shrink, and to people please.
Those patterns followed me into adulthood.
In relationships, I became the caretaker. Over-delivering and molding myself around other people’s needs to make myself easy to be with.
I thought if I could just be good enough and helpful enough, I’d finally feel worthy. But under the surface, I was exhausted and disconnected from myself.
In college I began studying speech pathology, inspired by the therapist who helped my grandfather speak again after his stroke. Then one day, a professor invited me to attend a leadership workshop and something clicked.
Hearing the speakers at that event, for the first time, I felt like I belonged somewhere.
That experience cracked something open and set me on a path of facing the invisible stories I’d carried for years.
From that point, I immersed myself in personal development work and later discovered a somatic modality that let me work directly with my unconscious beliefs.
As I did this, I began meeting the younger, exiled parts of myself who still held deep-rooted beliefs that I was incompetent, different, and wrong.
Sitting with those truths was difficult, but through it, I learned that my darkness doesn’t scare me. Which is why today, I’m able to guide others to meet their own unseen parts and darkness through a blend of somatic awareness, inner mapping, and compassionate coaching.
Basically, I help people feel safe and seen as they begin to dismantle inherited patterns and meet the parts of themselves they’ve been protecting.
We work together to navigate grief, anxiety, self-abandonment, or the quiet pull toward a life that feels more aligned.
I’m not here to fix you because I don’t believe anyone is broken. I simply see myself as a mirror and a mentor, creating trust-filled spaces where even the most sensitive or “too much” parts of you feel safe enough to be witnessed and transformed.
If you’ve ever felt like an outsider, or like you’re carrying patterns you didn’t choose, I want you to know that you’re not broken. You’ve just been protecting something tender.
And… you don’t have to keep trying to do it alone. This is the heart of my work.
