The body keeps the score. SE helps you change it.

Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to healing developed by Dr. Peter Levine, informed by decades of research on how humans and animals naturally process stress and threat. When a stressful or traumatic experience can’t be fully processed, that incomplete energy gets stored in the nervous system. Over time, it shows up as anxiety, hypervigilance, chronic tension, emotional numbness, dissociation, or a pervasive sense that you can never quite land.

SE works by gently tracking sensation in the body, not to relive or retell, but to help your nervous system complete what it couldn’t finish before. We move slowly. We resource before we explore. We follow what’s actually happening in you, rather than what we think should be happening.

This is not performance. This is not breath work as a coping strategy. This is the nervous system learning, at a cellular level, that it’s safe to settle.

SE is particularly effective for:

• Trauma and PTSD
• Chronic anxiety and hypervigilance
• Dissociation and emotional numbing
• Somatic symptoms and chronic pain
• Attachment and relational wounds
• Preparing for or integrating expanded states of consciousness

Sessions are available in person in the South Bay and via telehealth throughout California.

The experience opens the door. The work is what you do with it.

Expanded states of consciousness through ketamine, psilocybin, MDMA, or other medicines can catalyze profound insight, emotional release, and a felt sense of possibility that can feel almost impossible to access otherwise. But the depth and durability of that change depends almost entirely on what your nervous system can hold before, during, and after.

Preparation is nervous system work. Before an experience, we assess your capacity, not just your readiness emotionally or psychologically, but somatically. Can your system stay present when intensity arises? Do you have enough internal resource to meet what might come? We build that ground together: strengthening your felt sense of safety, your ability to track sensation without being swept away, your relationship with your own body as a trustworthy place to be.

Integration is where the medicine actually does its work. Insights from an expanded state can be luminous and disorienting in equal measure. Without support, they often fade, or worse, activate unprocessed material without resolution. We work to metabolize what arose: in the body, in relationship, in your day-to-day life. We make meaning that actually sticks.

I also support the integration of older experiences. Sometimes something that happened years ago is still asking to be digested.

You didn’t lose yourself. You protected yourself. 

Trauma reorganizes the nervous system around survival. After domestic violence, sexual assault, or betrayal, discovering that someone you trusted fundamentally was not who you believed them to be, the body learns to stay ready. Vigilant. Braced. Disconnected from pleasure, from trust, from the quiet knowing of your own instincts.

That reorganization made sense once. It kept you safe. But at some point, the protection becomes the prison, and no amount of insight or willpower can think your way out of it.

This is where somatic work changes everything. We don’t begin by going toward the hardest material. We begin by building enough safety inside you that eventually, going toward it becomes possible. We work with the body’s wisdom, not against it, honoring the protective responses that got you here while gently, steadily expanding what you can tolerate and what you can feel.

The goal isn’t to make peace with what happened. It’s to reclaim the life, the self, the trust in your own body that the experience interrupted.

This space is LGBTQ+ affirming and kink-friendly. You are safe to bring your whole self.

Perimenopause & Hormonal Transitions

Perimenopause is not a diagnosis. It’s a passage, one that our culture has almost no language for, and that most clinicians are undertrained to support.

The hormonal shifts of this transition don’t just affect the body in isolation. They reorganize the nervous system, reshape mood and cognition, alter identity at a foundational level, and frequently surface unprocessed material the body has been quietly holding for years. Many people move through this time feeling profoundly unlike themselves, anxious where they were once steady, reactive where they were once measured, grief-stricken without knowing exactly what they’re grieving.

This is not a malfunction. This is information. And it deserves more than a prescription.

My background as a health coach, with specific training in hormonal health, peptides, and biohacking approaches that support nervous system regulation, means I can hold the physiological and the emotional together in a way most therapists aren’t equipped to. We can explore what’s happening in your body biochemically, discuss what your labs might mean, consider evidence-based lifestyle and supplementation approaches, and do the deeper somatic and therapeutic work of navigating who you are becoming.

This transition can be a threshold into the most grounded, clear, and fiercely alive version of yourself. I want to help you cross it that way.

Teens Finding Their Voice

Adolescence is its own kind of nervous system upheaval, identity forming under relentless social pressure, the body changing faster than language can follow, and very few adults who know how to meet a teen where they actually are without an agenda.

I work with teens navigating anxiety, identity questions, trauma, creative suppression, and the quiet devastation of feeling like no one around them really sees them. My approach is body-based, non-judgmental, and deeply respectful of the intelligence already present in every young person I work with.

Creatives Reclaiming Expression After Trauma

For people whose lives are built around creative expression: artists, writers, performers, makers of all kinds, trauma often lands right at the source. The blank that appears where inspiration used to live. The inner critic that arrived after the wound and never left. The sense that the person who used to make things freely is now somehow out of reach.

We work to restore access. To the body, to the voice, to the creative intelligence that trauma interrupted but didn’t destroy. This work is as much about reclaiming identity as it is about making art, and the two are rarely as separate as we think.