Somatic Therapy in California
Get out of your head and into your body
when talk therapy doesn’t feel like enough
The Vibe Here
If traditional talk 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 intellectualizers 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.
Somatic therapy helps us to go deeper and heal through body’s wisdom.
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.”
Somatic therapy is a heart centered, bottom-up approach designed to help you feel instead of just think.
What To Expect In Therapy
We might…
Practice gentle body-based strategies to regulate your nervous system
Explore parts work through an IFS-informed lens to help you unblend from your perfectionism, people pleasing, anxiety and reactive patterns
Use guided visualization, movement, or expressive techniques to give voice to the parts of you that have never had a safe space to really speak about or authentically process those deeper burdens
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 relationships
Resting without guilt
Accessing clarity and confidence without the pressure to be perfect
Letting go of “performing” your healing, and actually embodying it
Becoming a more grounded and less reactive partner
Learning to accept, honor and love yourself
This work is gentle, honest, and validating AF.
I trust that your body has the answers. We just need to find the trailheads inward so that your inner wisdom can be seen, heard, and transmuted.
SERVICES
SERVICES
Individual Therapy
I offer therapy to individuals in California and I specialize in utilizing bottom up approaches to help highly intellectual therapists in releasing stored emotion from the body, connecting more deeply to traumatized parts, and regulating the nervous system. BOOK YOUR FREE INTRO CALL.
Therapy Intensives
Therapy intensives are available to clients that opt for longer sessions to support accelerated rewiring and revamping. Therapy intensives focus on helping therapists with attachment trauma process deeper wounds to heal their current relationship to self and to their partner. LEARN MORE ABOUT INTENSIVES HERE.
Workplace Wellness
Workplace Wellness offers workshops and mini retreats for business and organizations seeking stress relief, improved focus and functioning, and a relaxing and supportive experience for their teams. Workshops and mini retreats are customizable to your needs. LEARN MORE HERE.
Types of Therapy
Therapy for highly sensitive people:
Being a highly sensitive person isn’t a choice. Being an HSP doesn’t mean you have a mental disorder necessarily, but means that you have a particular temperament; one that makes you hyper attuned, hyper aware, and hyper impacted by both internal and external stimuli. Whether it’s related to sensory processing, emotional processing, or threat processing, your experiences feel inherently overwhelming. Many HSP’s often have ADHD, autism, and/or OCD and when triggered, an HSP might have an especially difficult time finding balance through rational thought or traditional CBT approaches. This is why I adore somatic therapy; it helps the HSP find emotional balance through feelings based and body based approaches.
Therapy for relationship issues:
I work with women in long term relationships and marriages; those that are seeking happier, healthier, and more harmonious energy in the relationship and in the household. If you’ve wondered whether it’s the relationship that’s the problem or whether it’s you, therapy is the perfect place to gain clarity. If you’ve come close to breaking up, separating, or even pursuing a divorce (or if you have in the past and got back together), your body is probably storing a lot of stress that keeps coming back up. Somatic therapy can help you go inward, find those deeper attachment wounds and heal them one mindful moment at a time.
Therapy for anxiety:
Anxiety isn’t a permanent state of being; anxiety is really a habit loop that can be interrupted. Often times, my clients experience anxiety as people pleasing, perfectionism, overthinking, and physical symptoms (like chest tightness, trouble swallowing, nausea, heart palpitations, shivering or tingling, and headaches). Anxiety learns to be anxious and learns to stay anxious; but we can teach it to do otherwise. Sometimes, traditional talk therapy and CBT approaches can actually leave an HSP with trauma feeling even more anxious. Somatic therapy takes us straight into the sensation so that we can connect with it, shift our relationship to it, and release it.
Therapy for childhood trauma:
The rational thinking brain, otherwise known as the frontal cortex, connects to the lower region of the brain; the lower region being the survival and emotional processing center of the brain (the limbic system). These networks are connected through neural pathways. When a child or adolescent experiences trauma, those neural pathways become strained, damaged, and weakened. This is why adults that have undergone trauma (particularly childhood trauma) become more quickly and intensely reactive when the limbic system is triggered. An adult with trauma, especially childhood trauma, tends to experience a chronically activated limbic system too; leading to hypervigilance, panic attacks, and chronic stress. Somatic therapy gets straight to the limbic system, bypassing the frontal cortex, to do the deeper healing.
Therapy that gets to the root of things. Reset your nervous system and rewire your core beliefs.
Through bottom-up therapy, we address the lower regions of the brain first (aka, the emotional, sensory, and survival brain) as a way to rewire core beliefs and revamp the way you respond to the triggering situations in your life.
Bottom up therapy, the way I provide it at Mindful Revamp, Inc., is informed by somatic experiencing and internal family systems. We bring awareness to the body as a way to experience, explore, process and release the deeper wounds that led you to your anxious, perfectionist, reactive and people pleasing ways; tendencies often stemming from deeper attachment wounds.
If you’re constantly stuck in your head, overthinking, anxious, insecure, irritable or resentful, you might be carrying deeper wounds that need healing on a body based level.
Alternative to traditional talk therapy, somatic therapy works up through the limbic system and into the frontal cortex, rather than the other way around.
My Therapy Approach; to help you heal from the inside out
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 your belief system and revamping your relationship to yourself. This is super key for when you “know better” but struggle to do better.
I utilize parts work to help you explore the protective parts you operate from as a result of stress, trauma, and emotional wounds. We work to unburden the parts of you that adapted to trauma so that you can connect to your truest, calmest, most compassionate and confident self. We get to know your internal family system on a deep level so that you can lead it, rather than triggered parts leading you.
I integrate creative and playful interventions including dance, embodiments, 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.
WORK WITH ME
WORK WITH ME
I offer virtual therapy for women in California who are ready to heal people-pleasing patterns, perfectionism and reactive patterns from the inside out.
My approach combines somatic therapy, mindfulness, and parts work to help you build self-trust, regulate your nervous system, and feel more grounded in your relationships and in your life.
While I don’t accept insurance directly, I partner with Thrizer, a platform that allows you to get instant out-of-network reimbursement if you have a PPO plan that qualifies. That means you can work with a therapist that truly fits , without being limited by your insurance network.
Not sure what your benefits are?
Book a free 20-minute intro call, and I’ll check them for you. No pressure, no commitment; just support and clarity as you explore your options.