Office: CC 204, x835. Advising: CC 204

Lori Wynters currently serves as the Jewish Chaplain at SUNY New Paltz and as faculty at SUNY New Paltz and Vassar College. She holds a PhD in Community/Counseling Psychology, EdM in Counseling Psychology with a focus on somatic approaches to individual and collective work around trauma and resiliency practices to re-pattern, regulate and co-regulate our nervous systems.  Her MFA-IA from Goddard focused on emancipatory theatre arts, spirituality and healing justice work and she’s received rabbinic ordination with a focus on intergenerational trauma in the Jewish diaspora and working with Muslim-Jewish engagement in the United States and Palestine for our collective healing/liberation. Her approach and practice include a wide range of somatic and arts based practices including but not limited to generative somatics, somatic experiencing, expressive/creative arts approaches, nutrition and herbalism as well as  Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement, Alexander Technique, gestalt practice, Body Mind Centering, Psychodrama and Socio-drama, Playback Theatre, Thai Yoga massage, Dance Therapy, Music Therapy and Drama therapy and dance and singing practices from a wide range of wisdom traditions.