Depth-oriented psychotherapy is rooted in the understanding that we are shaped by the unconscious — the patterns, images, and motifs we inherited before we had words for them, and that now recur in our psyches, appearing in our waking and dreaming lives. Drawing from Jungian and archetypal psychology, this lineage reveres the inner life in all its strangeness and richness: its atlas of myth, symbol, and imagination as genuine sources of self-knowledge and evolution. 

Whereas much psychotherapy prioritizes symptom relief or behavioral change, depth work honors what may be communicated through the unconscious and what evolution may be emerging through the psyche or the soul. In this framework, the psyche isn't a problem to be fixed. It's a living, dynamic system oriented toward wholeness and the symptoms, struggles, and recurring themes in your life are often its way of pointing toward something that wants to be integrated rather than eliminated.

Somatic psychotherapy lives inside this broader orientation. The body, the nervous system, the felt sense are all expressions of the deeper psyche, and working with them is one of the most direct routes into the unconscious available to us.

• Feel drawn to understanding not just what you feel, but why and what it might be pointing toward

• Are navigating a significant life transition, loss, or threshold moment that feels like it carries more weight than circumstance alone

• Find yourself returning to the same patterns, relationships, or struggles and suspect the roots go deeper than behavior

• Are drawn to mythology, symbolism, or the archetypal dimensions of human experience and want a space where that's taken seriously

• Have a rich inner life – vivid dreams, strong imagination, a sense of being in dialogue with something larger – and want support bringing that into conscious relationship

• Are less interested in simply managing symptoms and more interested in genuine transformation

Most of us have been taught to understand ourselves through our mind – to talk about what happened, analyze why we feel the way we feel, and think our way toward change. Somatic psychotherapy works differently. It's a body-centered, evidence-based approach that treats the mind, body, emotions, and nervous system as one interconnected system.

The word somatic simply means "of the body." In practice, that means we pay attention not just to what you're thinking and feeling, but to what's happening in your body as you think and feel it. This is where lasting change actually lives: not just in new understanding, but in a nervous system that has genuinely reorganized around safety.

Somatic work tends to resonate deeply for people who:

• Are navigating anxiety, chronic stress, or burnout and feel like managing it at the level of the mind isn't enough

• Have a history of trauma, PTSD, or complex PTSD – especially those who feel cut off from their bodies or stuck in patterns they can't think their way out of

• Have engaged in traditional cognitive modalities and gained insight, but crave deeper integration and embodiment

• Feel more comfortable in their heads than in their bodies, and want that to change

• Are drawn to a holistic, intuitive, whole-person approach to healing

Yes. The body-centered approaches I draw from — including Somatic Experiencing® (Levine, 1997), Sensorimotor Psychotherapy® (Ogden et al., 2006), and Polyvagal Theory (Porges, 1994) are grounded in decades of research on trauma, the nervous system, and how healing actually happens.

What this research consistently shows is that trauma isn't only stored in memory or story. It lives in the body, in the autonomic nervous system, in the ways we brace, collapse, disconnect, or override what we feel. Approaches that work at that level – rather than asking the mind to simply understand what the body holds – are not only supported by neuroscience, they tend to produce the kind of change that sticks.

Breath + Sound is a facilitated experience that works with two of our most direct portals into the nervous system and the unconscious: breath and sound. Together, they create the conditions for coherence and embodiment that thinking alone rarely reaches.

These journeys begin with guided breathwork, rooted in pranayama and active three-part techniques, to shift the state of the nervous system, quiet the analytical mind, and open a channel of access to what lives below ordinary waking consciousness. The immersive sonic journey that follows is created through harmonic, overtone-emitting instruments like singing bowls, gongs, percussion and voice. With the anchor of deep listening, which extends beyond the structure of the ear into felt sense and the cellular level of the body, expanded consciousness supports restorative, meditative states and resonance.

Breathwork and sound are also woven into my psychotherapy sessions and my signature offering, Soma + Sound, where they work alongside depth-oriented and somatic approaches as part of a more integrated therapeutic container.

Breath + Sound is suitable for most people and requires no prior experience with breathwork or meditation. If you're curious, that's enough.

That said, there are some considerations before we work together. Please inform me if any of the following apply to you:

• Pregnancy

• Cardiovascular conditions or a history of heart problems

• Epilepsy or a history of seizures

• Severe mental health conditions or a history of psychosis

• Recent surgery, injury, or any condition affecting your breathing

Your safety is the foundation everything else is built on. Together, we can explore the right approach for you, in collaboration with medical doctors as necessary.

You might experience deep relaxation, emotional release, vivid imagery, an expanded sense of self, or simply a quality of stillness you haven't touched in a long time. Some people process grief, move through stuck energy, or encounter something they didn't know they were carrying. Others simply rest in a way that feels genuinely restorative. There is no wrong experience. The invitation is only to arrive, breathe, and let the sound move through you.

Sessions are offered both individually and in group containers.

No two sessions look exactly the same, because no two people and no two days are the same. What I bring to every session is attunement: I'm tracking not just what you're saying, but how your body is holding it.

Together, we meet what is present with curiosity and compassion. Depending on what arises, we might move through verbal processing, somatic awareness, resourcing, EMDR, breath work, gentle movement, or vocal expression – all with your active collaboration and consent in the moment. We may utilize parts work, a framework that supports access to Self, Self-leadership and Self-to-parts coherence to gently unblend and unburden the internal system. The through-line in all of it is safety: creating the conditions where your system can actually allow something to shift, rather than just talk about it.

Soma + Sound sessions are either 75 or 90 minutes and begin with breath work and a sonic journey to soften the nervous system in coherence with your therapeutic goals. The depth and somatic work that follows unfolds as explained above. 

I offer both in-person and virtual sessions. You're welcome to join me in person at my office in Santa Monica or connect from anywhere in California via my secure telehealth platform.

My base rate for psychotherapy sessions is $225 for 50 minutes. Intensives like EMDR and signature offerings like Soma + Sound are billed at a specialized rate.

I reserve a small number of spots for sliding scale clients. Please inquire about availability.

No. To offer the kind of care I believe in – comprehensive, holistic, and genuinely human-centered – I practice outside of insurance networks. However, I want this work to be as accessible as possible. Upon request, I provide superbills (an itemized invoice with diagnostic material), which you can submit to your insurance company for potential out-of-network reimbursement. 

Depending on your plan and where you are with your deductible, you may be able to recover a meaningful portion of the cost.

If you want to explore this option, here are some questions worth asking your provider:

1. Does my policy cover mental health care from out-of-network providers?

2. What is my deductible, and has it been met?

3. What percentage of the fee will be covered for out-of-network mental health services?

Feel free to discuss with me the potential benefits and considerations for submitting mental health care services to your insurance provider.

My formal training spans psychotherapy, somatic work, sound, movement, and energy – a range that reflects my belief that healing is rarely one-dimensional.

Academic

• Master of Social Work: University of Southern California

• Bachelor of Arts, Psychology: University of California, Santa Barbara

Clinical Training

• SP for the Treatment of Trauma, Level 1: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute

• EMDR in Clinical Practice: EMDR Consulting

• Somatic Parts Work, Level 2: Embody Lab

Yoga, Sound, Energy

• Sound Meditation Facilitation: The Sound Ceremony

• Registered Yoga Teacher, 200 Hours: Yoga Alliance

• Kids’ Yoga, 30 Hours: Zooga Yoga

• Yoga Nidra Meditation, 60 Hours: Practices of Self Love

• Reiki Practitioner, 2nd Degree: Love Yoga Space

Beyond formal credentials, I take my ongoing development seriously. This includes my own personal therapy – because I believe you can only take someone as far as you've been willing to go yourself – as well as regular supervision and consultation, continued study in evidence-based treatment models, and immersion in the broader literature that informs this work: research, depth psychology, somatic science, and beyond. I don't offer what I haven't studied, trained in, or experienced myself. Usually all three.

In California, graduates of accredited masters programs must complete 3,000 hours of supervised post-graduate clinical work before they can become independently licensed to practice psychotherapy. 

I hold a Master's in Social Work and am currently in the process of accruing those hours. During this time, I see clients independently as an ASW (#114126) in ongoing consultation with my supervisor, Tamar Colen LCSW (#22944) – a structure designed to ensure that the care I offer is both safe and continuously evolving. I’m on track to complete my hours and become independently licensed in 2026.