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These practitioners provide in-person care at Held Space and run their businesses independently. Please inquire directly with them for more information.
Laura Temple
Integrative Psychiatry
In addition to being the founder of Held Space, Laura Temple is a board-certified psychiatric nurse practitioner and the founder of Temple Psychiatry, offering integrative, trauma-informed care for individuals navigating anxiety, panic, depression, burnout, and the lasting impacts of trauma. Her approach blends the science of psychiatry with a deeply human, relational lens—combining thoughtful medication management with mindfulness, somatic healing, and compassion-based practices to support whole-person care. Laura specializes in working with sensitive, self-aware individuals who long to feel safe, connected, and at home in themselves, and she creates a warm, collaborative space where patients can explore what hurts, reconnect with their bodies, and build a more grounded, meaningful life.
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Nicole Quintana-Wolf
breathwork guide
Nicole is a trauma-informed breathwork guide, somatic coach, and writer. Her work is rooted in helping people reconnect with the innate wisdom of their bodies and live from a more heart-centered place. Through breath, embodied practices, and compassionate inquiry + reflection, she supports others in safely exploring their inner landscape, releasing stored tension, and cultivating a deeper sense of trust within themselves.
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Flossie McCall
herbalist and acupuncturist
Flossie McCall L.Ac. is an acupuncturist and herbalist specializing in reproductive health, mental-emotional balance, perinatal care and chronic pain. Her goal is to guide her patients towards their most embodied, authentic and joyful selves. Flossie’s work is driven by her empathy, deep listening and energetic intuition. She believes in acupuncture’s profound ability to regulate the nervous system and provide restful nourishment within a fast-paced world. While she treats an array of conditions, she is most passionate about treating hormonal, reproductive, digestive and mental-emotional health.
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Alessandra Fabris-Tantawi
Couples & Sex Therapy
Alessandra Fabris-Tantawi LCSW, M.Ed, RYT (she/her) is a licensed clinical social worker, holistic psychotherapist, integrative trauma specialist, sex therapist, educator and yoga teacher. Alessandra supports predominately BIPOC and LGBTQ+ couples, women, individuals and families to navigate life with more ease and consciousness. Alessandra encourages people to unlearn binary thinking, linear cultural narratives, and ascribed societal labels that hinder happiness and a sense of social connection.
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Lexie Thrash
Somatic Psychotherapist
Lexie Thrash, MS, LCAT, R-DMT (she/her) a compassionate, holistic, person-centered, and somatically-oriented psychotherapist, artist, and yoga teacher. Unequivocally LGBTQIA+-affirming and intersectional, Lexie works with individuals, couples, and families with concerns including: family issues/relationship concerns, navigating poly and open relationships, complex trauma, anxiety, and depression. In tandem with talk therapy and evidence-based practices, authentic movement, breath work, mindfulness, meditation, and/or art making may also be integrated into work together. Bridging her knowledge of somatics through a lifetime of study in dance and performance, she seeks to support clients on their unique paths toward integration of mind, body, and spirit.
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Lea Torelli
Chiropractor
Dr. Lea Torelli, DC. provides chiropractic care for those seeking greater balance, resilience, and ease in their lives. With a background as a professional dancer and Pilates instructor, she understands the dedication and physical demands of a thriving creative career. Having experienced performance-related injuries herself, Lea knows how deeply physical health impacts creativity, productivity, and well-being. She is honored to serve the Held Space community with a mission focused on helping clients optimize performance and vitality so they can move through life with focus and flow.
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Allyssa Rivera
Licensed Creative Arts Therapist
Allyssa Rivera is a Licensed Creative Arts Therapist and Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist who centers the Body as a site for exploration, understanding, and liberation for herself and the folx she works with. Allyssa integrates trauma-informed somatics, embodied storytelling, and talk therapy frameworks such as Parts Work, DBT, ACT, relational-cultural theory and is committed to decolonizing therapy and being a real human with her clients. Allyssa provides a warm, embodied approach, inviting adults and adolescents to creatively explore their strengths and needs and address relationships, identity, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, substance use, and life transitions. She collaborates with clients to develop an environment that fosters curiosity, growth, and radical acceptance of all parts of the Self.
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Adrienne Figueiredo
Licensed creative Arts Therapist
Adrienne Figueiredo (she/her), MA, LCAT, ATR is a clinically oriented art therapist who provides a warm, compassionate and collaborative approach to therapy. She incorporates DBT, CBT and existential therapy techniques into her work, and provides therapy that is tailored to the individual and open to evolution throughout the process. Having been an artist herself, Adrienne specializes in providing care to creative professionals, women, and the LGBTQIA+ and other underserved communities, and her work is informed by the strong belief that before addressing individual mental health needs it is important to first acknowledge and process the broader cultural structures that are often the initial cause of harm.
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Ashley Guttuso
Licensed Aesthetician
Licensed since 2019, Ashley brings a foundation in organic skincare, intuitive touch, and whole-body wellness. Her work is supported by advanced training in Gua Sha Facial Fusion with Cecily Braden and the Vodder Method of Manual Lymphatic Drainage with Anne Bramham through ASTECC. Her experience spans fast-paced Upper West Side and West Village spas to the intimacy of a boutique facial studio. A firm believer in trusting the skin’s natural intelligence, Ashley pairs the highest-quality botanical skincare with clinical care for advanced, restorative results. With a focus on intentional, healing touch, her hands are her most essential tool—communicating calm, releasing tension, and inviting the nervous system back into balance.
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Amélie Gaulier
Body-Mind Centering® & Somatic Movement Therapy Practitioner
Amélie Gaulier (she/they) is a Body-Mind Centering® practitioner, mindfulness instructor and somatic movement therapist, member of ISMETA. Her work as a trauma-informed space holder is rooted in attuning to how belonging, safety, and dignity are experienced in the body. Her somatic healing practice supports grounded, centered presence, clarity in life’s direction, and trust in the body’s inherent wisdom. Through her 1:1 somatic and coaching sessions, she guides individuals to tune into the language of sensation, conscious embodiment, and mind-body awareness — all in service of cultivating curiosity, compassion, and self-inquiry to spark, deepen, and sustain intentional change. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, on unceded Canarsie land and is a white-bodied, longtime New York transplant.
Alongside Emily Thulier, she co-founded SOMA SOMA creating inclusive spaces; workshops and group therapy; where bodies can imagine, restore, unlearn, and transform.
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Shekinah-Glory Beepat
Feldenkrais Practitioner
Shekinah-Glory (She/They) is a licensed Feldenkrais Method practitioner, life-long martial artist (Okinawan Karate, Aikido), and outdoors educator. Their work is founded in the belief that we are the most powerful when we enable and employ our full selves.Through both verbally-guided and hands-on sessions, Shekinah-Glory facilitates the deconstruction and expansion of both movement and behavioral patterns to cultivate a nurturing learning environment from within.
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