Counseling and Somatic Therapy

Berkeley, California

I help adults in the Bay Area and all of California experiencing anxiety, depression, and trauma — using a somatic, body-based approach. I also work with grief, climate anxiety, and psychedelic integration.

I treat people for a variety of issues including:

  • Depression
  • Anxiety
  • Trauma
  • Grief
  • Climate anxiety and grief
  • Psychodelic Integration
  • Overcoming the experience of growing up in a dysfunctional family

Listening with care and empathy, I create a compassionate, safe space that will welcome your healing and assist you to improve the quality of your life.

I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, a NARM Master Therapist, and a Certified Sensorimotor Psychotherapist.

What is Somatic Therapy?

While conversation is part of the process, we also pay attention to what is happening in your body — your posture, gesture, sensations, impulses for movement, as well as images, and memories that arise. Cutting edge neuroscience research has shown that somatic therapies are more likely to resolve physical symptoms.

Somatic therapy and counseling often employ a mindfulness approach to therapy where we may focus attention on your body's experience as well as images, memories, emotions, beliefs, and movements. You can develop awareness and acceptance of your experience, leading you to a deeper connection with your true self. Current research shows that using mindfulness is especially beneficial when working with depression, anxiety, trauma, and other difficult emotions to create new neural pathways for experiencing more positive emotions. 

When we don't have enough support to manage the difficult experience in our lives, we get overwhelmed: anxiety, depression and other symptoms may develop.  Talk therapy alone will not encourage the body and nervous system to relax.  Slowing down and resourcing the body can allow the organic intelligence of the body to relax and heal.

I provide services to residents anywhere in California via telehealth. I see clients from Berkeley, Oakland, San Leandro, and Alameda California in my office in Berkeley CA.

Because it is so essential that you find the therapist that is right for you, I offer a free 20 minute consultation.   You can call me at 510-595-5556.  I see clients in from Berkeley, Oakland, Albany ,and Alameda in my Berkeley office. And I serve all of California via Telehealth.

2711 Alcatraz Avenue Berkeley, CA · 94705