Somatic Therapy Rooted in
the California Coast
Evidence-based, trauma-informed psychotherapy for individuals and couples navigating the weight of unprocessed experience. From the place this work was built.
Where This Work
Began
I founded Embodied Soul Psychotherapy™ on a simple and abiding conviction: lasting healing requires more than insight. It asks for the body's participation. I am a licensed clinical psychologist whose work sits at the intersection of evidence-based care, somatic awareness, and spiritual depth.
This practice is rooted in Carpinteria, just south of Santa Barbara, and it is where this work began.
I work with adults and couples navigating complex trauma, relational wounds, burnout, grief, identity transitions, and the quiet erosion of self that accumulates over years of performing wellness rather than experiencing it. My approach is integrative, individualized, and attuned, drawing from a broad range of clinical modalities to meet each person's unique history and nervous system.
LOCATION
Carpinteria, California
Serving clients statewide via telehealth
FORMAT
In-person & telehealth sessions
Licensed to practice throughout California
SPECIALIZATIONS
Trauma, relational healing, somatic integration, spiritual identity
APPROACH
Integrative, trauma-informed, body-centered
Healing in a State
That Asks a Lot
California carries a particular cultural current, one that celebrates resilience, productivity, and self-optimization. For many people living here, that current creates an invisible pressure: to have already healed, to be further along, to know better by now.
But insight and self-awareness, however well-developed, are not the same as integration. Many of the people I work with are deeply reflective, even therapeutically experienced, and still find themselves caught in patterns they cannot simply think their way out of. This is not a failure of effort. It is a signal that the body holds what the mind alone cannot fully reach.
Somatic, trauma-informed therapy offers a different entry point, one that honors both the complexity of California's high-achieving culture and the quieter, more embodied work of genuine self-understanding. Whether you are navigating Silicon Valley burnout, professional identity transitions in Los Angeles, or the dissonance of living beautifully while feeling disconnected, my work offers a space that can hold the full picture.
An Integrative Framework,
Tailored to You
No two people arrive with the same history, the same nervous system, or the same readiness. I draw from a range of evidence-based modalities, choosing and combining them based on each person's unique presentation rather than following a fixed protocol.
Somatic & Mindfulness-Based Approaches
The body remembers what language cannot fully name. Somatic-informed work creates an opportunity to notice, interrupt, and slowly reorganize the patterns held in the nervous system. Not through force, but through attentive presence. Learn more about the approach →
Yoga Nidra & Embodied Practices
Yoga Nidra is a guided awareness practice that supports deep nervous system rest. Used within the therapeutic frame, it offers a bridge between the analytical mind and the body's more intuitive intelligence. Explore all modalities →
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
IFS offers a compassionate map of the internal landscape: the parts of us that protect, the parts that carry pain, and the Self that can hold all of it. This modality is particularly helpful for those who experience themselves as divided, performing, or exhausted by their own inner critic.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
For couples and individuals working within relational contexts, EFT helps identify the emotional cycles that drive disconnection and create new pathways toward secure, responsive connection with self and others.
Polyvagal-Informed Therapy
Understanding how the autonomic nervous system shapes perception, relationship, and behavior gives both of us a clearer picture of what regulation and healing actually require. This framework informs how I pace and structure our sessions.
EMDR & Trauma-Focused Work
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) supports the processing of distressing memories and traumatic experience in a structured, evidence-based way. I integrate EMDR within a broader somatic and relational framework. Read more on the blog →