Somatic Therapy
The body knows how to heal
Whether you’re struggling with trauma, anxiety, depression, relationship challenges, or major life transitions, somatic therapy can help you reconnect with your innate capacity for healing, resilience, and self-understanding.
While traditional talk therapy often focuses primarily on thoughts and behaviors, somatic therapy also works with the nervous system and the body’s lived experience. Painful experiences, trauma, and emotional patterns are not only remembered cognitively — they are carried physically and emotionally. Somatic therapy helps bring awareness to these patterns so they shift in a deeper and more lasting way.
This approach is collaborative, experiential, and grounded in safety. Together, we work to help you move out of stuck or protective patterns while strengthening your connection to vitality, clarity, emotion, and authentic selfhood.
My work integrates extensive training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Therapy, Sensorimotor Therapy, Somatic Focusing, Embodied Mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems (IFS), along with more than 15 years of clinical experience. I practice through a trauma-informed, attachment lens and remain attentive to the ways social, cultural, and political realities can support or complicate healing and development.
Conditions Treated:
Depression, bipolar disorder, and mood-related struggles
Anxiety, panic, and chronic stress
Relationship and interpersonal difficulties
Addiction and substance use concerns
Childhood trauma and adult children of dysfunctional families
Identity exploration and struggles related to gender, sexuality, race, culture, or spirituality
Life transitions, grief, and loss
General Therapeutic Approach
I am a relational therapist, which means I place strong emphasis on building a trusting, collaborative relationship with you. I believe meaningful therapy grows out of a genuine sense of safety, connection, and mutual understanding. My work is also experiential and emotionally focused, with attention to what is happening in the present moment between us, in your inner experience, and in the body. This can help create deeper emotional healing and lasting change.
My approach is also grounded in humanistic values. I’m interested not only in the problems that bring you to therapy, but in who you are as a whole person — your history, identity, creativity, longings, values, and hopes for your life. Therapy is not simply about symptom reduction; it is also about strengthening your connection to meaning, vitality, and the parts of yourself that want to grow and move forward.
There is also a spiritual dimension to my work, though not in a rigid or dogmatic sense. I believe human beings are part of something larger and more mysterious than the isolated self. As we learn to listen more deeply — to the body, emotions, relationships, and life itself — insight and change often emerge organically rather than through force or self-criticism alone. This can foster a greater sense of trust, reciprocity, compassion, and groundedness as we navigate the realities and uncertainties of being human.