I work with people who want to feel more choice, more ease, and more presence in their lives, bodies, and relationships.

Together, we practice sensing safety, tending to the nervous system, listening to the body, and meeting each other in the here and now.

This kind of relational somatic therapy might be for you if any of these statements feel true for you:

•  You often feel like you are either “too much” or “not enough” in your relationships

• and you are longing to feel truly safe and truly yourself in your relationships

• You’re terrified of ruptures in your relationships because you’ve never really known repair

• and you’re longing to both practice repair and find the people who are willing and able to practice it with you

• you’re often trying to think or understand your way into feeling better

• and you’re longing to actually feel differently, not just cognitively understand why you feel the way you do

• You often feel rushed by yourself or others, and find yourself pushing through before you’ve really had a chance to check in with yourself about what you want or need

• and you are longing to learn how and when to slow down and include your body in your decisions in real time

• You often feel you need to be perfect, and find yourself feeling ashamed when that perfection is out of reach

• and you’re longing to feel more capacity to let yourself be human and make mistakes (and still feel worthy of love and connection)

• You desperately want to get it “right” at work, in relationships, in therapy

• and you’re longing to get in touch with what’s really right for you

• You often feel you need to appear easy or chill to stay in relationship (even though you often feel missed, hurt, angry, or shut down)

• and you’re longing to be able share your real experience—rough edges and all—with the people you love (and stay in connection)

• You often find yourself analyzing the past or worrying about the future

• and you’re longing to be able to be present, to feel safe enough right where you are

• You avoid conflict (or delay conflict until you’re too upset to hold it in)

• and you’re longing to truly feel that conflict is ok—part of connection and not a threat to connection

• You feel a lot of shame or blame in conflict/under stress, and often see things as either/or: “it’s my fault” or “it’s their fault,” “I’m bad” or “they’re bad,” “they always do this” or “I always do this”, “they never do this” or “I never do this.”

• and you’re longing to feel more capacity to be in conflict beyond shame and blame—with more room for nuance, more clarity about what you want and need, and more space to hold yourself and the whole relational picture even when you’re upset

I specialize in offering somatic support in the following areas:

• trauma (PTSD, C-PTSD, Developmental Trauma, and Oppression Trauma)


• living with chronic illness or chronic pain as a teen or adult


• identity exploration (gender, sexuality, etc.)


• anxiety, panic, dissociation, executive dysfunction, and depression


• grief, loss, and change


• burnout at school or work 


• conflict, communication, and change in relationships