Hi there. I’m Anabella.

This is my story.

I was born in Argentina and immigrated with my family to Newark, New Jersey, navigating life without generational wealth or established community support. While my parents were loving and grounded us in enduring values, I also grew up amid the disconnection, burnout, divorce, incarceration of loved ones, harmful substance use, and chronic stress that communities like ours often carry. These experiences shaped my early awareness of resilience and my belief that belonging and care are a life-affirming antidote to the harmful systems we live within.

Much like my hard-working family and neighbors, I was devoted to making the best out of my circumstances. A career in psychology became my focus.

& I was fueled by the hustle.

I took on several part-time jobs, filling in my evenings and weekends in the service industry aside from being a full-time student working to keep critical scholarship assistance. I also partied hard, and I justified it as “balance”. Student loans helped me to pursue my dream of having quality education. But the hustle was not sustainable, and it took a toll on my health and relationships.

Studying Psychology didn’t mean I would figure out how to stay centered during and after college. The education system failed to address the burnout that is common in the helping professions. I needed to find out how to stay grounded.

My personal healing journey became a big part of my approach to caring for others.

I became motivated to understand my inner world and the patterns shaping my life.

I began questioning what I was numbing, why I kept losing myself in painful relationships, and how I might relate to myself differently. I committed to looking inward as deeply as I sought external support and connection. I invested all I could into myself.

This work continues. With the steadiness that has come from deep healing, I’ve found more capacity to be present and committed to my relationships, my clients, and communities. I volunteer for an NGO in Argentina and with a local mutual aid organization in Brooklyn, guided by values of care and interdependence. While life continues to present challenges (and always will!), the ways I meet them have fundamentally changed.

I have found that healing is possible through an integrated approach - talk therapy, movement, bodywork, psychedelic healing, and a sustained practice of staying connected to what feels true.

I’m dedicated to helping you do the same.

Experiences and qualities that have shaped me, how I work, and how I relate:

  • Deeply intuitive, spiritual seeker, raised in a secular household

  • Creative, curious

  • Immigrant, Native Spanish Speaker

  • Cisgender woman

  • Queer

  • Trauma survivor

  • Sex worker allied, sex-positive

  • Latine of mixed descent, presenting as racially/culturally ambiguous

  • Able-bodied, experience with chronic pain and neurodivergence

  • Grew up in a household impacted by addiction and severe mental health struggles