Who Benefits from Working with Me?

Inge was simply the best collaborator for a research project at Florida International University, a unique project aimed at child welfare workers: CriticalThinkRx, A Critical Skills Curriculum on Psychotropic Medications. Inge was the project's heart: identifying, organizing, and synthesizing information from thousands of publications from psychopharmacology, psychiatry, psychology, law, counseling, and social work, and shaping in every way the success of this curriculum. She organized the field testing of CriticalThinkRx in eight foster care agencies in Miami-Dade and Broward counties and collaborated on the publication of the study. The online curriculum was taken by over 35,000 clinical social workers, psychologists, and attorneys in the US. Inge was exceptionally skilled, giving heart and soul to this project from beginning to end, and infusing her respect for children and their experiences into every one of its facets.

Inge was instrumental in creating Unity on the Bay’s Congregational Care Ministry, which provided support services, spiritual counseling, and therapy referrals for people going through challenging times. She led many support groups and workshops, most recently a series of Grief Support Groups for congregation members dealing with the death of loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her heart-centered wisdom, coupled with somatic knowledge, created a wonderful space of healing. Inge is of the utmost integrity, and we have always felt safe and nurtured by her presence.

Inge was distinctly selected from a wide group of applicants to participate in a disaster relief pilot program. She joined a small group of mental health responders in the post-hurricane Ida Louisiana Bayou to provide psychosocial support resources through our crisis stabilization and safety (CSS) program. Inge’s contribution to this project was above and beyond meaningful and beneficial to the clients and to her colleagues! Her depth of presence, her robust somatic skills, and her clear ability to meet people in crisis under any circumstances are exemplary. She is a source of deep healing, hope, and support to others. And most importantly, she is fun and full of joy, which is a real plus in trying times of hard fieldwork!

Inge’s powerful presence helps one feel safe and seen. She holds sacred space, actively listens, and leads with empathy and compassion as a teacher, coach, and counselor. I have always found her to be a fierce, vulnerable, joyful, ethical, and authentic seeker of truth who remains a humble student of spiritual traditions and lives her yoga off the mat.

As the founder of an association for eating disorders in El Salvador, I met Inge when she successfully treated many Salvadoran women at Oliver Pyatt Centers in Miami. We founded the association in 2005 to increase professional awareness of eating disorders. In 2011, we invited Inge to San Salvador to train approximately 30 psychologists and related professionals on the assessment and treatment of eating disorders. She received high marks for her contribution, and they received new tools in the integration of somatic practices of embodiment for eating disorder sufferers.