Somatic Mindfullness Therapy
Serving clients in California, Washington, and locally in San Rafael & Oakland
~Quiet the Mind, Open the Heart, Find Peace Within~
My approach to therapy is rooted in Somatic Mindfulness, stemming from my experience as a Buddhist practitioner, a Masters in Mindfulness-Based Counseling, and advanced training in somatic therapy. This gentle yet powerful exploration invites compassionate awareness that listens deeply to the wisdom of your body, where your story lives beyond words.
Together, we create a sacred space to uncover and release old patterns, traumas, and stuck energy. This is not about fixing; it's about remembering who you truly are—guided by the transformative power of loving-kindness, presence, and embodied wisdom.
Therapeutic Approaches
Nervous System Healing
Nervous system and attachment healing supports you in shifting out of survival responses and rewiring early relational patterns so you can feel more regulated, secure, and connected in both your body and relationships.
Parts Work
Parts work, or Internal Family Systems (IFS), helps you connect with the different parts of yourself—like the inner critic, the protector, or the wounded child—with compassion, so you can heal internal conflicts and feel more integrated, empowered, and at peace.
Trauma-Informed Care
Trauma-informed care gently supports you in processing overwhelm, anxiety, or numbness by integrating body-based modalities that help release stored trauma and restore a sense of safety, resilience, and wholeness.
Liberation Healing
Liberation healing is a decolonial, anti-oppressive approach to therapy that honors how systemic injustice impacts mental health and supports you in reclaiming your voice, identity, and power as an act of personal and collective liberation.
Trauma-Informed Care
Experiencing trauma can leave you feeling stuck in cycles of overwhelm, anxiety, or numbness, impacting your sense of safety, self-worth, and relationships. My approach to trauma healing integrates compassionate, body-based modalities like EMDR, Brainspotting, Somatic Experiencing, and Sensorimotor Psychotherapy to gently and effectively help you process and release traumatic experiences stored within your nervous system.
Together, we’ll create a supportive space where you can safely reconnect with your body, emotions, and inner resilience. Rather than feeling trapped by past events, you’ll begin to experience a renewed sense of calm, confidence, and freedom—allowing you to engage fully with life again.
Nervous System & Relational Attachment Healing
When we experience stress or trauma, our nervous system activates survival responses—fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—to keep us safe. Fight may show up as irritability or defensiveness, flight as anxiety or overworking, and freeze as numbness or feeling stuck. These automatic patterns, shaped by past experiences, can make it difficult to feel safe and regulated in daily life.
We can learn to shift out of survival responses into calm, regulated states through practices like deep breathing, mindful movement, and safe connection. These practices help foster greater emotional balance, resilience, and deeper relationships.
Attachment healing addresses how early relationships with caregivers shape trust, security, and self-worth. If emotional needs were met inconsistently or harmfully, relationships in adulthood may feel anxious, avoidant, or unsafe. Therapy helps recognize these patterns, develop self-compassion, and create new, secure ways of connecting—allowing for more ease, confidence, and fulfillment in relationships.
Parts Work: Internal Family Systems
Internal Family Systems (IFS) is a powerful therapeutic approach that helps you understand yourself as a system of different “parts,” each with its own feelings, needs, and motivations. When you feel stuck, overwhelmed, or conflicted, it’s often because different parts of you are pulling in opposite directions—one part might want change while another part feels scared, or one part might be critical while another feels deeply wounded. IFS helps you recognize and connect with these parts from a place of self-compassion, so instead of feeling controlled by self-doubt, anxiety, or shame, you can begin to understand why these parts show up and how they’re trying to protect you.
Through this process, you can gain more clarity about what you truly want, heal past wounds, and feel more integrated within yourself. Rather than feeling at war with different aspects of your experience, IFS helps you create a sense of inner balance, where all parts of you feel heard and supported. Therapy can guide you in developing a strong, calm, and compassionate core “Self” that leads with confidence, helping you navigate life with greater ease and authenticity.
Liberation Healing
Liberation healing acknowledges that personal struggles don’t exist in isolation—they are deeply connected to the social systems we live in. Many forms of distress, including anxiety, depression, and trauma, are shaped not just by personal experiences but also by systemic oppression, such as racism, homophobia, transphobia, fatphobia, and ableism. Traditional therapy often focuses solely on the individual, but liberation healing recognizes that societal injustice plays a major role in mental health. By naming and validating these experiences, therapy becomes a space where you don’t have to internalize blame for struggles that are, in part, a response to oppression. Instead, you can explore how these external forces have impacted your sense of self and begin reclaiming your power.
Liberation Healing is a decolonial and anti-oppressive approach to therapy which helps you unlearn harmful narratives imposed by dominant culture and reconnect with your authentic self, cultural roots, and community. Healing is not just about coping with oppression—it’s about resisting it, finding your voice, and creating space for joy and self-acceptance. Therapy can support you in building resilience, processing identity-based trauma, and fostering self-compassion in a world that often devalues marginalized identities. In this work, your experiences are honored, your emotions are validated, and your healing is seen as an act of liberation, not just for yourself, but for the generations that come after you.
Nature-Based Therapy in Marin County
Nature is a powerful ally in the healing process. When we reconnect with the natural world, we remember that we are not separate—we are part of something vast, wise, and alive. In this space of belonging, healing becomes not just personal, but deeply rooted in the rhythms of the earth and our ancestral connections.
I offer Nature-Based Walk-and-Talk therapy in Royce Redwoods Park in Woodacre, Marin County, where we can walk beneath the redwoods, breathe with the trees, and speak freely. We may find a quiet, private spot in the grass to sit on a blanket and settle into deeper reflection together. Surrounded by the beauty and stillness of nature, therapy becomes a sacred, grounding practice—held by the land and supported by the compassionate energies of Mother Earth, Pachamama, Gaia, or Quan Yin.
Therapy Approaches
✓ Internal Family Systems (IFS)
✓EMDR
✓ Brainspotting
✓ Hakomi/Somatic Psychotherapy
✓ Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
✓ Somatic Experiencing
✓ Gestalt
✓ Emotionally Focused Therapy
✓ Attachment/Relational Therapy
✓ Non-Violent Communication Skills
✓ Drug/Alcohol Harm Reduction
✓ Mindfulness, Meditation Skills
Certifications & Trainings
• EMDR Trauma Training, EMDRIA, 2024
• Brainspotting Trauma Training, Pacific Trauma Center, 2024
• Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Training, Alchemy Therapy Community Center, 2023
• Suicide Crisis & Prevention Training, Crisis Support Services of Alameda County, 2022
•Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1 & 2, 2020
• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Level 1, 2020
• Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory, 2020
• Relational Life Therapy, Terry Real, 2020
• Hakomi Method Training, 2020
• 250-Hour Tantric Hatha Yoga Teacher Training, 2016
DEGREES
• MA in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling, Naropa University, 2023
• BA in Sociology and French, UCLA, 2004
Ready to Dive In ?
I offer a free 20-minute consultation to all clients so you can ask questions, learn more about my approach, and feel out whether we are a good fit.