Body based healing for therapists
Healing for Therapists: Somatic Therapy and Parts Work in California
Somatic and Mindfulness-Based Therapy, Workshops, and Email Support for Therapists
Somatic Therapy in CA
If you’re deeply self-aware but still feeling stuck on your mental health journey, somatic therapy might be exactly what you need. I offer 50-minute sessions and 5-hour therapy intensives designed to help you move beyond overthinking and reconnect with your body, your emotions, and your true self.
Membership for Therapists
Inside this email membership for therapists, you’ll receive fresh somatic support every Monday morning to help you start your week grounded, connected, and embodied- both personally and professionally. Feel more confident integrating somatic practices into your own life and therapy sessions with ease.
Workshop Development
Bring calm, clarity, and confidence to your next staff event, conference, or professional development day. I create and facilitate customized workshops and mini-retreats for organizations of all kinds, offering an unforgettable experience that supports emotional well-being, connection, and growth.
Is somatic therapy right for you?
You’re a therapist in California and you’re the one others turn to for support, insight, and guidance.
But behind the scenes, you’re holding so much.
You’re often caught in cycles of perfectionism, people-pleasing, and a deep desire to get it right.
There are seasons when you push and perform, striving to keep up with expectations- your own and everyone else’s.
But there are also seasons when you can’t.
When the burnout takes over.
When the exhaustion runs deep.
And you find yourself going through the motions, shut down in a quiet kind of way, stuck in what feels like a functional freeze.
You scroll late into the night even though you know it doesn’t help.
You cancel the plans you were looking forward to.
You retreat from the parts of your life that used to bring joy.
And then you feel frustrated with yourself because you know better.
You understand your attachment history. You’ve read all the books. You teach your clients about boundaries, self-compassion, nervous system regulation.
You know what your inner critic is, where it comes from, and how it formed.
But still, despite all your knowledge, you keep looping through the same patterns in your relationship, your work, your inner world.
If you’re searching for therapy for therapists in California that goes deeper than cognitive insight, this might be the support you’ve been needing.
I offer a bottom-up, somatic approach to therapy that helps therapists like you reconnect to themselves—not just intellectually, but emotionally and physically. My work is grounded in nervous system regulation, mindfulness, and parts work, using an IFS-informed lens to explore the protective patterns you've had to rely on for safety.
You don’t need more information; you need transformation.
A space to slow down. To feel safely. To process what your body has been holding for years.
If you’re a therapist who:
Feels stuck in cycles of burnout, stress, or self-doubt
Longs for a relationship that feels steady, but keeps running into the same attachment wounds
Finds herself swinging between pushing too hard and feeling too shut down
Craves a new approach; one that doesn’t require you to “perform” your healing...
Then yes, I might be the therapist for you.
I show up with presence, compassion, and curiosity. I’m not here to fix you—I’m here to help you make space for the parts of you that feel too much, too messy, or too tired to keep holding it all together.
Together, we’ll slow things down.
Not to stay stuck in the past, but to let your body and your system know: it’s safe to be here now. it alone.
The Lasting Effects of Attachment Trauma on Highly Sensitive Therapists
Even with all your training, emotional wounds from childhood can quietly shape how you move through the world.
As a therapist, you might notice this most in your relationships; with your partner, your family, your friends, or even your clients.
These early wounds often create patterns of people-pleasing, perfectionism, and anxious attachment.
You may find yourself absorbing the emotions of those around you, struggling to differentiate your needs from theirs, or shrinking your truth to avoid conflict.
You want to set boundaries, but it feels like you’re being too much.
You want to ask for support, but a part of you feels like you should already have it together.
You want to rest, but your nervous system equates slowing down with guilt.
These aren’t just “bad habits,” they’re survival strategies.
And they’re deeply embedded in your nervous system.
When emotional wounds go unprocessed, even therapists find themselves stuck in cycles of burnout, overthinking, and chronic self-doubt; especially in intimate relationships where vulnerability runs deep.
And because you know so much about the roots of these behaviors, it can be especially frustrating when you can’t seem to change them on your own.
This is where a somatic, IFS-informed therapy approach can make all the difference.
Instead of just analyzing where these patterns come from, we’ll start gently unwinding them through the body.
Through parts work, nervous system regulation, and mindful presence, you’ll learn how to relate to your emotional wounds differently so they no longer run the show.
Therapy for Therapists That Blends Mindfulness, Nervous System Healing, Parts Work, and Creative Self-Connection
I take a mindfulness and somatic (body based) approach to therapy; otherwise known as a “bottom up” approach. These approaches target the lower regions of the brain as an avenue for re-structuring the belief system and re-organizing your relationship to self.
I utilize parts work to help you explore the ways in which you carry and operate from emotional wounds. We work to unburden the parts of you that adapted to trauma so that you can connect to your truest, most authentic essence.
I integrate creative and playful interventions including dance, somatic affirmations, intuitive movement, visualization and art. Through use of playful, creative and movement related interventions, we aim to heal the relationship between your inner child and YOU.
What Somatic Therapy Looks Like for Therapists Like You
If traditional therapy hasn’t felt like enough, or you’ve found yourself saying “I know this already, but I still feel stuck,” you’re not alone. Many therapists reach a point where insight no longer moves the needle. That’s because the parts of you that are hurting can’t be accessed through the mind alone.
In our work together, we’ll slow down.
We’ll listen closely- not just to your thoughts, but to your body, your emotions, and the quieter parts of you that often get drowned out by the noise of responsibility, perfectionism, and pressure to “do it right.”
This is somatic therapy for therapists in California, a personalized, bottom-up approach designed to help you feel instead of just think.
We might…
Practice gentle body-based strategies to regulate your nervous system
Explore parts work using an IFS-informed lens to meet your inner critic, your avoidant part, or the part of you that shuts down under pressure
Use guided visualization, movement, or expressive techniques to give voice to the parts of you that have never had a safe place to speak
Create space for grief, longing, or joy through grounding, art, or imagination
Build creative rituals or grounding practices that reflect your inner world, not just what the textbooks say “should” work
This isn’t a one-size-fits-all model. This is deep, creative, somatic healing, therapy that honors who you are, what your system has carried, and what it truly needs now.
Together, we’ll work toward:
Feeling more at home in your body
Reclaiming your voice and needs in your relationship
Resting without guilt
Accessing clarity and confidence without the pressure to be perfect
Letting go of “performing” your healing, and actually embodying it
This work is gentle. It’s honest. It’s real.
And it’s built for the part of you that’s ready to stop surviving and start feeling fully alive.