Caroline Thompson
Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee
Serving South Bay, LA, Redondo Beach, Hermosa Beach, Palos Verdes, Manhattan Beach, Torrance, El Segundo
Areas of Focus: I work with adults and teens navigating trauma, betrayal, life transitions, perimenopause, and the kind of stuck that no amount of thinking seems to fix. Together, we work with anxiety, chronic stress, identity, relational wounds, and experiences, both painful and expansive, that the body is still holding.
- Sessions: 50 minutes / 75 minutes / 90 minutes
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
My Personal Journey
I didn’t find this work through a textbook. I found it because my body demanded it.
What began as my own navigation of the places talk therapy couldn’t reach became one of the most rigorous and expansive educations I could have asked for. Somatic and medicine work, studied and experienced across clinical and ceremonial contexts, with teachers and practitioners from around the world. The slow, unglamorous, cellular work of actually changing. I know this terrain not just from training, but from having crossed it.
That foundation is what I bring to every session. A nervous system that has learned what safety actually feels like. An understanding of expanded states that is embodied, not theoretical. And a deep respect for how long real healing takes, and how possible it is.
On Longer Sessions
Somatic work has its own rhythm, and it rarely fits neatly into 50 minutes.
A standard session can absolutely be valuable. But when we’re doing deeper nervous system work, something shifts with more time. Your body has a chance to actually settle before we begin. We can open, explore, and integrate, rather than stopping right when something real starts to move.
With a longer session, you can:
- Let your nervous system slow down before we go anywhere
- Stay with what’s arising instead of managing it so we can finish on time
This is especially true for trauma work, psychedelic integration, and anyone who tends to need a little longer to feel safe enough to go deep. If that’s you, a 75 or 90 minute session isn’t an indulgence. It’s just good science.