Trauma is the body’s response to an overwhelming situation, not the situation itself. The body contracts around feelings of overwhelm, freezing them into trauma that can stay stuck in the body. This is why you can still feel activated and hypervigilant after a traumatic event is over, as if it were still happening—to the body that has not processed it, it is still happening.​​

Through somatic healing and trauma release, you can clear trauma on every level of your being—body, heart, mind, and spirit. You can move on from the past, stop reacting to the present from a traumatized state, and grow into a life of more ease, presence, and freedom.

All life experiences are stored in the body. Whereas traditional talk therapy works rationally with mental understanding from the “top-down,” Somatic Therapy works from the “bottom-up,” directly contacting and working with the body’s felt-sense roots of your emotional, mental, and behavioral patterns and experiences to create immediate, profound, and sustainable transformation.

While much of our human wounding and mental health challenges come from personal and interpersonal experiences, transpersonal spiritual connection enables much greater healing and self-actualizing potential than more narrow, materialistic approaches. With years of academic study and engaged contemplative practice in many world wisdom traditions, I hold a space in which you can include the living essence of your spirituality, or the magic and the mystery of the enormity of existence, in your healing and growth journey. Whether you are on a spiritual path or not, my primary interest in spirituality is in grounding transcendent experiences in immanent, embodied, practical life, merging the dual and the nondual, and supporting your connection with what is most meaningful in your life.

EMDR is one of the most well-regarded, evidence-based treatments for trauma and PTSD. Utilizing different forms of bilateral stimulation, EMDR helps the body release trauma from painful memories and bring coherence to the brain and nervous system. While you cannot change the past, you can change the way the past affects you, and EMDR is a powerful technique for this.

To assist your healing and growth, we offer psycholytic (low-dose) ketamine and cannabis-assisted therapy sessions. These expressive medicines can help you access and process especially deep-rooted traumas, and connect with and integrate more well and whole aspects of yourself not always available to normative consciousness.