Mindful somatic psychotherapy in the Bay Area.
Discover your body’s natural capacity for healing with holistic therapy that integrates mindfulness with the wisdom of the body to enable deep emotional processing for unresolved experiences.
Somatic therapy is a gentle and effective approach to releasing painful memories stored in the body that are outside of your conscious awareness and restoring an integrated sense of personal wholeness using effective tools to transform from within.
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Somatic therapy invites you to access the innate intelligence within you, exploring the deep connection between your mind and body through physical sensations and emotions to facilitate organic healing and transformation.
Guided by your body’s natural capacity for healing, this intuitive therapeutic process helps you:
Using your felt sense as a guiding principle, body-based therapy gently supports you to discover your inner wisdom and allows healing to unfold organically in a relational field of loving presence and attunement.
Experiencing growth, one breath at a time.
Like my work with addiction, artists, and empaths, the somatic work I offer in my practice emerges from lived experience rather than theory alone. Somatic therapy is one method within my work as a depth psychotherapist—an approach to healing that uses the body as a primary source of information. It can be especially resonant for those whose understanding of themselves is rooted in felt experience, as well as for those who tend to “live in their heads,” and are seeking balance or refuge from thought spirals.
My training as a somatic therapist originated in my yoga practice fifteen years ago, beginning with teacher trainings at the former Good Yoga in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, and later at Yoga Tree Castro in San Francisco. Over time, I studied with many teachers who helped me understand—quite literally, in my bones—what it means to be an embodied presence in the room, and how emotional regulation can emerge through breath matched to movement. More recently, my training in Hakomi psychotherapy brought this work full circle, integrating somatic awareness directly into the therapeutic process.
There are phrases I will never unhear, teachings that continue to orient me in both practice and presence, and living teachers such as Janet Stone, whose capacity to connect to source through humility and grounded wisdom, offer a lesson simply by example. In my work, somatic awareness is less about technique and more about listening—to what the body is already communicating, often long before words arrive.
At the core of Hakomi mindful somatic therapy lies the belief in your innate capacity for healing. The process helps you connect to your inner intelligence, which naturally moves toward
With gentle curiosity, somatic therapy uses reflections and invitations to explore your present-moment experience. These inquiries bring awareness to what is ready to unfold while somatic resourcing encourages nervous system healing.
Hakomi invites awareness across the body, heart, soul, and spirit, helping you deepen your understanding of all aspects of your experience.
A somatic therapist honors the fluid interplay between:
By weaving together these dimensions, mindful somatic therapy encourages you to embrace your wholeness for deeper integration.
The unique power of somatic therapy lies in its ability to hold all facets of your being while providing specific tools to access the depth of your inner world.
Respecting your body’s wisdom includes honoring your natural defenses. Rather than adversaries, your defenses are protectors and allies that intuitively guide therapy at a pace aligned with your needs to ensure a gentle, non-invasive process.
Honoring your defenses enables you to follow the body’s wisdom in a safe and natural progression. This approach ensures that each part of your being is met with care and understanding.
Somatic therapy teaches us how to hold opposing experiences — ecstasy and terror, light and shadow, life and death — with grace. We grow by learning to move between polarities, using the dance between opposites to create meaningful change. By embodying both sides of a polarity the wisdom embedded in the dialectic is revealed.
Shadow work involves taking a brave look at the parts of ourselves that we would rather not acknowledge — repressed desires, emotions and experiences that have been exiled to the unconscious.
Confronting hidden or avoided parts of yourself holds the medicine for deep healing. When intense emotions arise, Hakomi therapy helps you stay present and grounded with mindful awareness and somatic resources to:
You don’t have to hold this alone. Reach out to connect with a somatic therapist in San Francisco.
Being with the full range of emotional experience.
Somatic therapy is an invitation to come home to yourself with curiosity, presence & love.
Take a moment to notice what’s coming up for you. If it feels right, request an appointment.
Body as memory.
Relational field as healing ground.
Somatic therapy invites you to connect with your felt sense and natural inclination towards healing.
Learn to soften old protective patterns and reconnect with your body’s innate intelligence from the inside out.
If something in you is ready to shift, reach out to learn more or schedule a session.
Somatic Therapy in the Mission District near Noe Valley, Potrero Hill and Bernal Heights.
