Nabi De Angulo, LCSW, CCTP

My practice goes back to the blackberry bushes in Chilimarca, Bolivia where I managed to squeeze my little body through the thorny branches when I needed safety and protection from the chaos at home. 

The mothers who raised me were tormented by patriarchal and colonialist systems and yet managed to carve out spaces of tenderness, resilience, and quiet rebellion—teaching me, even in their struggles, that love and strength could exist alongside pain

I witness crimes agains childhood early in my life that I now see were initiations into my devotion to  to show up to the world with tenderness, compassion and love in the midst of great injustice, exhaustion and despair. 

Among powerful mothers that guided  me into this practice are,t Kiovana Tantra, Abby Galvin and Nevine Michaan, who introduced to  Katonah Yoga,®  and gracefully shared with me tricks and maps to find peace and joy in the midst of the complexity of being alive. Katonah Yoga,® beautifully intertwined my love affair with nature and gave me the permission I search to reference Great Nature as the therapeutic modality that  has helped many organize ourselves in time and space and see our bodies not as a problem, but as divine instrument to participate in this short and beautiful life. 

Last but not least, I have adapted and reformed the treatment modalities and therapeutic techniques with every person I've had the privilege to work with. My clients have showed me that trauma is a powerful force that when harnessed and cared for with wisdom and compassion, it can create profound transformation in their lives and their communities.

My career began early in my childhood when I would run away from my home school duties to our neighborhood daycare to care for the babies experiencing deep wounds of abandonment. As a child I would do anything in my power to mend their longing for their caregivers and clearly saw how these attachment wounds greatly impacted their development later on in life.

Later on in adulthood, I partnered with Philadelphia public schools and the juvenile detention center to provide pregnant and parenting teens academic, emotional and economic support for the successful transition into parenthood and foster secure attachments with their infants. I then joined Hope Family Health Center as an integrative health psychotherapis where I provided individual and group psychotherapeutic services through a holistic health perspective in order to address the root causes of mental and physical chronic illnesses. This work allowed me to see the great health disparities among class, gender, race and immigration status that led me to co-fund Hermana Luna, a nonprofit organization that promotes food sovereignty and healing through plant based, sustainable initiatives. 

My work led me to survivors of complex trauma, body-based healers, temazcaleros, herbalists , and stewards of the land who inspired me and gave me the strength to open my own private practice in 2021 where I provide Somatic integration 

At 13 years old, my family