Somatic Counseling Sessions
The essence of my work is orients the question:
how do we cultivate fluid, adaptable, embodied, compassionate and engaged approaches
to our lives and the challenges of this era.
We are living in increasingly destabilizing, and disorienting times.
My intention in offering this work is to support you to develop an intimate connection to your inner currents, to cultivate nervous system resilience, to deepen authenticity in connection and relationship, and to grow trust in your self and your body’s ability to meet, metabolize, integrate and release life as it moves through you.
I’m here to support you in listening and trusting your own system;
attuning to what your body has been trying to tell you..
I offer somatic sessions virtually, in person, and as an integrative component when working with clients through bodywork, aquatic therapy, fluid-functional movement coaching and psychedelic facilitation/integration.
Somatic Experiencing
As an SEP (Somatic Experiencing® Practioner) I practice a bodily-oriented approach..
SE invites your attention to the felt sense,
the physical and sensory language of your body.
Many of us are skilled at understanding ourselves through thinking…
Analyzing, making meaning, or explaining.
SE offers another doorway: attending and attuning
to our experience of and as our bodies.
Through gentle guidance,
we learn to notice the subtle sensations, impulses, and
strategies that carry the movement and patterns of our nervous system.
This practice helps us reconnect with what’s been held inside, such as feelings, energy, or responses that never had the chance to complete.
It’s also a way of recognizing that the patterns we may judge in ourselves (our protective or defensive strategies) have actually been working to keep us safe.
In SE, trauma isn’t seen as something that happened to us long ago — it’s understood as a pattern moving and living in the nervous system.
By slowing down and tracking what’s happening right now, expanding capacity to be with our experience, we can renegotiate these patterns, understand our needs, boundaries and desires clearer, and allow the body to move from disorientation toward grounded presence, expression and aliveness.
SE Tools
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we find ground, we resource in gravity, we resource in the breath, in presence.
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we follow the tide, from contraction, to expansion. From fear, into curiosity. Resistance into permission. Tracking these tides and allowing for them.
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Where are you? When are you? Do you see what’s around. When in trauma, our attention narrows. There’s literally a contraction of perception, as our systems omits awareness of what it doesn’t believe it needs for survival. We take in current, live data through the senses. We orient to time and place.
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sometimes just a drop at a time is what’s needed, to build safety and trust in ourselves. titration can support learning containment.
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As your parts speak to one another, your body trusts to trust that you’ll listen to it, respect its boundaries, express your aliveness, and move from disconnection to connection.
Compassionate Inquiry
Compassionate Inquiry® (CI) is a psychotherapeutic approach developed by Dr. Gabor Maté.
As a practice, it supports us to look beneath the surface, at what prevents us from being present to the emotions, beliefs, and body states that shape how we show up in the world.
“Being cut off from our own natural self-compassion is one of the greatest impairments we can suffer… Compassionate Inquiry encourages us to reconnect with that part of ourselves and understand that what may seem maladaptive today was once a necessary adaptation.”
~ Dr. Gabor Maté
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CI helps reveal how our patterns, habits, and defenses were once intelligent adaptations that helped us survive. Many of the ways we protect or distance ourselves make perfect sense when we understand the conditions in which they began. Through this lens, we move from judgment toward understanding, and from understanding toward compassion.
This work blends gentle inquiry with somatic awareness. We listen not only to words, but to sensations, emotions, gestures, and impulses — the body’s quiet language that often holds what the mind cannot name. As we slow down together, what was once hidden begins to soften, making space for honesty, care, and connection.
Compassionate Inquiry is not about analyzing or fixing. It’s about bringing curiosity and warmth to the parts of ourselves that have been waiting to be met. We explore questions like:
What is this pattern protecting?
What is it longing for?
What part of me still needs to be held with love?
Through this process, your body and mind begin to reconnect. You may notice more breath, more presence, more of yourself available to life. Healing becomes less about effort and more about remembering your own capacity for authenticity, dignity, and love.
Inquiry asks us to stay curious,
to be humbled by what we don’t understand,
to open a space to observe, and allow ourselves to discover ourselves.
To notice the ways you’re pursuing your need for authenticity and connection.
To shift from something is wrong and needing to be fixed/controlled/changed,
to asking what that part is trying to do for you, and what it needs from you.
Compassion asks us to practice care,
to practice acknowledging and meeting all parts of ourselves,
to grant them the worthiness of being seen and held,
and to be woven into belonging
Rates
For 60 - 90 minute sessions
160 - 240 USD
I do not currently take insurance. However, I can provide an invoice or “superbill” that you may submit to your insurance provider for possible out-of-network reimbursement.
Qualifications
Integrative Psychology, Cognitive Science, Psychological Anthropology (BA, Hampshire College)
Peer Chaplaincy Services (Hampshire College)
Peer Support Specialist (w/Felton Institute, Alameda Country, CA)
Crisis Counseling
(Crisis Support Services of Alameda County)Orthopedic Manual Therapy Certification
(CMT, McKinnon Institute)Somatic, Healing, Social Justice
(w/Generative Somatics)Somatic Experiencing Practioner Training
(SEP, 3 years professional training)Compassionate Inquiry Training
(250 hour Graduate level training with Dr. Gabor Mate)Ketamine Assisted Integrative Therapy
(w/Sage Integrative Health)Ethical Psychedelic Care
(w/Synthesis Institute)Integral Psychedelic Therapy (TA)
(w/Sage Integrative Health)Integrative Psychedelic Practioner Training (as Circle Guide)
(w/kiyumi)
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