
Caroline Thompson, MFT Trainee, SEP, MA, CTNC, RYT-500
My approach to healing is rooted in the body.
I believe lasting change doesn’t come from insight alone; it comes from helping your nervous system learn, at a felt level, that it’s safe. Drawing on extensive training in Somatic Experiencing, attachment theory, and approaches gathered from mentors around the world, I work with adults and teens navigating trauma, life transitions, hormonal shifts, and the aftermath of experiences, both difficult and expansive, that have left them feeling unlike themselves.
My background spans somatic therapy, health coaching, hormonal health, and psychedelic preparation and integration. Whatever brings you here, the work begins in the body, and it begins at your pace.
Your body has been trying to tell you something.
You’ve done the work. You’ve read the books, sat in the offices, maybe even understand why you feel the way you do. And still, something stays stuck. Still bracing. Still disconnecting. Still not quite trusting yourself.
That’s not a personal failing. That’s physiology.
I’m Caroline, and I work at the place where neuroscience meets deep human experience. Using Somatic Experiencing as my primary framework, alongside attachment theory and approaches gathered from mentors across the globe, I help people build genuine safety in their bodies. Not just understanding it. Feeling it.
When your nervous system learns it’s safe, everything changes. The patterns loosen. The body stops guarding. You begin to recognize yourself again.
This work is for anyone ready to stop managing symptoms and discover true healing.
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Your nervous system as the entry point
Most therapy works top-down, from insight to feeling. Somatic Experiencing works bottom-up. We start with the body, because that’s where survival responses live, and that’s where lasting change happens.
PSYCHEDELIC PREPARATION & INTEGRATION
Expanded states can open extraordinary windows into ourselves. But what determines whether that opening becomes lasting change isn’t the experience itself. It’s what your nervous system can hold, before and after.
I help you prepare emotionally, psychologically, and, most notably, somatically, and support the integration of previous experiences still asking to be metabolized.
FINDING SAFETY AFTER TRAUMA — DV, SEXUAL ASSAULT & BETRAYAL
Trauma doesn’t just live in memory. It lives in the body, in the startle response that won’t settle, the vigilance that never turns off, the part of you that stopped trusting your own instincts after someone violated them.
The goal isn’t to make you okay with what happened. It’s to help you reclaim the parts of yourself that were interrupted: your instincts, your boundaries, your capacity for connection, your trust in your own body.
LIFE TRANSITIONS — PERIMENOPAUSE, TEENS & CREATIVES
Perimenopause & Hormonal Transitions
Perimenopause is one of the most underserved, misunderstood transitions a person can move through, and it’s one I’m particularly passionate about.
Drawing on my background as a health coach and my training in hormonal health, I offer something most therapists can’t: the ability to hold both the emotional and the physiological dimensions of this transition together. We can explore the somatic experience of hormonal shifts, talk about what your labs might mean, discuss peptides and biohacking approaches that support nervous system regulation, and do the deeper therapeutic work of navigating who you are becoming on the other side.
Teens Finding Their Voice
Adolescence is its own kind of altered state. The nervous system is in genuine upheaval, identity is forming under pressure, and most teens are being asked to perform competence they haven’t yet had the chance to build.
I work with teens who are navigating anxiety, identity, trauma, and the particular loneliness of feeling like no one around them speaks their language. My approach is gentle, body-based, and deeply respectful of where each young person actually is, not where adults think they should be.
Creatives Reclaiming Their Voice After Trauma
Trauma interrupts the self. For creatives: artists, writers, performers, makers, that interruption often lives right at the place where they make their work. The critic that won’t quiet. The blank that appears where expression used to be. The sense that who they were before is now inaccessible.
We work to restore access. To the body, to the voice, to the knowing that was always there beneath the noise.
I am grateful to be completing my externship with Kryss Castle Family Counseling Group under the supervision of Kryss Castle, LMFT, license #95114 & Cody Gauthier, LCSW, license #113096
FAQ’s
Where are you located?
I serve the South Bay, LA, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, El Segundo. I’m also available via telehealth for clients located in California.
How long are sessions?
Sessions are generally 45-50 minutes. Extended sessions are available for those wishing to do deeper work or for couples (75 or 90 minutes).
Do you take insurance?
We do not accept insurance. However, I am able to provide a superbill for insurance that allows for out of network mental health providers. Reduced fee services are available on a limited basis.
50 minute session $195
Extended sessions are available for those wishing to do deeper work or for couples.
75 minute sessions are $325
90 minute sessions are $399
Contact Me
Locations
235 Avenida Del Norte, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
235 Avenida Del Norte, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
235 Avenida Del Norte, Redondo Beach, CA 90277
336 Tejon Pl
Palso Verdes, CA 90274
2309 PCH #104
Hermosa Beach CA 90254
2309 PCH #104 Hermosa Beach CA 90254
2309 PCH #104
Hermosa Beach CA 90254
