Clinician, Yoga Instructor. Elisha Fernandes is a trauma sensitive yoga facilitator, EMDR therapist, and trauma professional who meets clients where they are in their life’s path. Through an exploration of therapeutic interventions, Elisha invites her clients to explore ways to embrace their true self, deepen self awareness and expand sense of stability. For over a decade, she has collaborated with adolescents and adults who have suffered from traumatic experiences to establish healthy goals and coping skills that have helped overcome past struggles that have interfered with establishing one’s wellbeing. Elisha’s integrative approach combines a psychodynamic, person-centered, mindful therapeutic interventions. This  includes creative art expressions, trauma sensitive yoga , eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), trauma sensitive mindfulness, dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and somatic movement, to provide an environment of deeper exploration of self awareness. These modalities have helped past clients experiencing depression, anxiety, difficulty with trust, impulsivity, low self-esteem, post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), relationship difficulties and discrimination in a variety of settings. Clients are encouraged and supported in finding the most meaningful, informed choices to find ease, joy and liberation of one’s true self. Elisha received her license master of social work from Hunter College and trauma training from David Emerson of the Justice Research Institute. She is the founder of Finding Peace Within, offering trauma sensitive yoga and therapeutic interventions to the criminal justice population. Find out more at @elishafpw, on Facebook.