Nabi De Angulo, LCSW, CCTP

When I think about the most formative teachings that led me to this work,  I return to the thorny blackberry bushes created by the hens living in the back of my childhood home. This is a place I would visit often in moments of distress. This is where I felt safe, nourished and protected. I continued to seek nature as my anchor as an immigrant in foreign land, as an outsider to mainstream psychotherapy and human in this chaotic world. 

I am also informed my mothers. My own biological mother and all the mothers that showed me what it means to show up to the world with tenderness, compassion and love in the midst of great injustice, exhaustion and despair. I've learned to become a sacred space holder by the mothers whom I've walked alongside their pregnancy, have invited me into their birthing space and have confined in me their heroic experiences of raising children against all odds. 

Amongst these powerful mothers, I met Kiovana Tantra, Abby Galvin and Nevine Michaan, who introduced to Katonah yoga, and gave me the opportunity to learn from them as I myself became a mother. Katonah yoga beautiful intertwined my love affair with nature and gave me the permission 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.

I graduated with a Bachelors in Social Work (BSW) from Eastern University in 2014 and proceeded to get a Masters In Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015 with a specialization in the clinical practice. I attended to numerous workshops and training and continue education credits on complex trauma among them are the following:

• Sand Therapy For Children

• Certified Clinical Trauma Professional, CCTP in 2017 by the Arizona Trauma Institute

• 200 Hour Katonah yoga training: 

• Trauma-Informed yoga from Thrive Trauma Institute of Houston

• Certified Integrative Mental Health Professional (CIMHP) Training Course: Nutritional and Integrative Medicine for Mental Health Professionals 

• Integrative Somatic Psychotherapy Master Class: Step-by-step embodied healing with Abi Blakeslee and special guest Peter Levine

• Transforming Trauma with Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) 

• Gabor Mate’s Compassionate Inquiry in Action: An Experiential Course for the Healing of Deep Traumatic Wounds 

• Treating Complex Trauma with Internal Family Systems (IFS)

• Complete IFS Therapy Immersion: Integrating the Internal Family Systems (IFS) Model Across Clinical Applications

• The Clinician's Suicide Prevention Summit: Treatment Strategies to Inspire Hope and Save Lives 

• Dick Schwartz's Internal Family Systems Therapy Master Class: Experience IFS Therapy in Action with Complex Trauma and PTSD

• EMDR and Telehealth Mastery Course: Advanced EMDR Trauma Treatments via Telehealth & In-Person

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 

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