Dessy T. Levinson is an executive strategist and relational integration coach, creator of the CRATE Framework for cognitive and emotional resilience, and founder of crate.com.

Drawing from over two decades of experience across advertising, venture capital, and high-performance coaching, she helps leaders navigate complexity and transform overwhelm into flow.

Her approach combines deep psychological insight with practical business acumen, enabling individuals and teams to achieve lasting change through narrative and emotional alignment. She lives in the New York area with her husband and teen children.

"We are not thinking creatures who feel; we are feeling organisms who happen to think." - This quote from Damasio is highlighted to illustrate the relationship between emotions and reasoning.

• The feeling of overwhelm, how to work with our emotions and what different emotions feel like in the body
• How we naturally navigate and perceive the world based off our previous experiences and interactions but why that might actually get in our way by inventing fear
• Our brain works and is basically a predictive machine that is trying to orient to what is relevant, we can start to control our reactions
• Examining traumatic narrative to reshape and build more sufficiently sound models to serve our experiences better
• Tapping into our emotions and feelings to navigate the negative moments with more ease and better use signals to orient ourselves in the world
• How our nervous system processes intensity and pressure and how to manage compounding pressure and intensity to better support your health especially for women in a modern world
• The CRATE framework to help regulate and manage stress and overwhelm and the value of getting in the flow state
• Testing our assumptions, recognizing true fear response and what is not, and building more trust in ourselves so we’re prepared to tackle whatever life throws our way

Dessy’s Website

Crate Website

Antonio Damasio

Victor Frankel Man’s Search for Meaning

Mel Robbins & Gabor Mate Podcast Episode