Nathalie Edmond

Nathalie Edmond, PsyD, RYT-500 is a licensed clinical psychologist, experienced yoga teacher and JEDI (justice, equity, diversity and inclusion) practitioner who takes an integrative perspective to her consultations and trainings. She believes that transformation happens when we integrate mind-body-spirit and have an embodied dialogue. She grounds herself in the idea that racial justice is a spiritual practice. She has worked in a variety of clinical settings as a clinician, administrator and adjunct faculty. She regularly leads anti-racism, trauma informed and anti-oppression trainings. She is currently the director of the counseling center at Villanova University and owns a therapy practice called Mindful and Multicultural Counseling in New Jersey. Dr Edmond completed her Bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology from Rutgers University (1998). She completed her doctorate in clinical psychology at Wright State University School of Professional Psychology (2003). ​She has been intensively trained in mindfulness based and trauma sensitive approaches to therapy which include Dialectical Behavior Therapy (10 day intensive), attachment focused EMDR, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy (levels 1 and 2), Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) and various yoga traditions. She completed her 200 hour yoga training in 2015 and 300 hour training in 2019. She teaches meditation and leads trauma sensitive yoga teacher trainings. She has worked in a variety of mental health settings. She was director of Princeton House Behavioral Health Women's Trauma Program, a psychologist at Princeton University Counseling center, and co-hosted a podcast called Rest and Awaken about integrating liberation in one's daily life. She has facilitated a variety of continuing education seminars in a variety of settings and taught a graduate course on multiculturalism and feminism. She acknowledges she lives on the ancestral and unceded land of the Lenni Lenape. She is a 2021 Honoree for Princeton YWCA Tribute Awards. The Awards celebrate Mercer County women who embody the YWCA mission of eliminating racism and empowering women. She has been trained by Lee Mun Wah and Kenneth Hardy in the areas of anti-racism, racial trauma and diversity, equity and inclusion. Her foundational trainings on trauma are from Janina Fisher. She is influenced by black buddhist teachers, black feminist ideology, black liberation theology, somatic practitioners, antiracism leaders/ancestors and everyone she has ever come into contact with. She runs an online membership community offering monthly workshops about exploring one's self as a racial being called Antiracism Revolution.