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Somatic Trauma Therapy

Healing for your whole self.

It is common for people who have experienced significant life changes, challenging relationship dynamics, individual trauma or collective trauma to feel a sense of disconnection from their inner self, their bodies, and their relationships. It often feels as if the weight of your experiences are blocking you from fully engaging in your present life. I specialize in supporting you in healing these barriers to growth and building unity within yourself and your relationships.

In session, we will attend to your mind, body, spirit, and collective experience. My intention is to support you through challenging life patterns, personal struggle, and difficult relationship dynamics. We will work together to validate your pain and joy without shame, activate inner wisdom, and move towards healing and wholeness.

I specialize in working with people wanting to address the following:

Trauma and Complex PTSD
Queer identity exploration and development
Relationships: Ethical non-monogamy, partnership transitions, codependency
Spiritual growth

My work is client-centered and relational, meaning that each session is customized to meet you where you are at. I believe that you are the expert in your own experience, and see our relationship as a primary part of the healing process. My therapeutic offerings draw from my training in the following modalities:

Internal Family Systems/Parts Work

This approach creates relationships between your inner parts to help process trauma and build inner unity and integrity as a whole system.

Interactive Guided

Imagery

Similar to guided meditation, but you are an active participant in exploring your inner landscape and facilitating release and healing.

Somatic and Energetic Awareness

I am trained in yoga-based practices and Somatic Abolitionism and utilize these practices in session to integrate the body into all aspects of our work.

EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)

A trauma reprocessing modality used as a mechanism of healing old wounds to create space for new life and meaning.

“Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me”

– Audre Lorde

“We heal primarily in and through the body, not just through the rational brain. We can all create more room, and more opportunities for growth, in our nervous systems. But we do this primarily through what our bodies experience and do—not through what we think or realize or cognitively figure out.”

– Resmaa Menakem

“The job of a therapist is to help people acknowledge, experience, and then bear the reality of life – with all its pleasures and heartbreak.”

– Bessel Van Der Kolk

Washington State Mental Health Counselor License #LH61040153