SOMATIC THERAPY IN CALIFORNIA
Where the body leads and healing follows.
You understand yourself. And yet.
You've done the work. You know where it comes from — the family you grew up in, the things that happened, the ways you learned to cope. You can articulate your patterns with real clarity. You know why you over-apologize, why you shrink in certain rooms, why saying no feels like bracing for impact even when the stakes are low. You understand the fawning. You can see yourself doing it in real time.
And still. The anxiety shows up anyway. The appeasing happens before you can stop it. The body moves toward making it okay for everyone else before it even occurs to you to check what you actually need.
That's what somatic therapy is for.
You might be here because:
You have core beliefs around not being worthy, strong, safe, or good enough.
You are on high alert and feel easily startled.
You feel responsible for everyone else's emotional experience.
You go numb or disappear in moments that should feel close or safe. |
You're exhausted from holding it all together, all the time.
how i can help
Somatic Therapy
Somatic therapy is built on a simple but profound premise: the body is not a passenger in your healing. It's where the healing actually happens.
Trauma and chronic stress don't live in the story of what occurred. They live in the body's unfinished response to it — the freeze that never thawed, the breath that never fully came back, the protective shrinking that formed so long ago you don't remember a time before it. Somatic therapy helps you move through it.
In our work together, we'll slow down and pay attention to what's actually happening: in your chest, your throat, your shoulders, your gut. We'll notice what happens in your body when you consider saying no. When someone seems displeased. When you imagine taking up space. Not to analyze it, but to be with it. To let the nervous system learn, slowly, that you are allowed to exist fully — and that nothing terrible will happen when you do.
This is gentler than it might sound, and more profound than you might expect. We'll work at the pace of your nervous system, not faster.
imagine if you…
Could feel conflict without your body treating it like a crisis
The spike of dread when someone seems upset with you. The collapse into apology before you've even assessed whether you did anything wrong. The way disagreement can feel like danger even with people who are safe. These aren't overreactions — they're the body doing what it learned. And they can change.
Stopped leaving yourself in the moments that matter most
The dissociation in conflict. The numbness in intimacy. The way you can be in a room and not quite there — performing okayness while something in you goes very quiet. These aren't personality traits. They're protective responses that formed for good reasons. With the right support, they can soften. You can learn to stay — present, grounded, and still yourself.
Felt at home in your own body
Not monitoring it. Not bracing against it. Not waiting for the next thing to go wrong. This is what this work moves toward.
I want you to know:
You are allowed to feel better than this.
Not someday, not after you've earned it, not once everything else is resolved. Now. The anxiety that has followed you everywhere, the weight of what happened, the exhaustion of holding it all together — none of it has to be permanent. Healing is possible. Not the absence of hard feelings, but a different relationship to them.
faqs
Common questions about Somatic Therapy
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Check out my blog post here.
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No. Somatic and body-based approaches to trauma work with the nervous system's response to what happened not the narrative of it. In fact, retelling the story in detail can sometimes retraumatize rather than heal. We will never go faster than feels safe, and you are always in control of how much we explore and when.
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No, there is no touch involved in these sessions.
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