Healing the
Soul Wound
My integrative Bilingual and English psychotherapy and counseling services support mental health, wellness and transformation. I collaborate with you in a healing journey through heart, mind, body, and soul. Engaging in personal and generational healing is a sacred and sometimes challenging endeavor. I believe in your innate impulse towards healing and inner spiritual, cultural, and psychological strengths. I am here to be an open, empathic, and support system.
Areas of Specialty
Trauma and PTSD
Depression
Anxiety
Life Transitions
Grief and loss
Relationship Issue
Identity
Acculturation
Stress Management
Post-Traumatic Growth
Decolonization
Integration
Empowerment
Modalities/Techniques
Somatic Experiencing
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Narrative Therapy
Therapeutic Yoga
Liberation Psychology
Attachment/Interpersonal
I do not provide the following services:
Parental fitness, child custody, or visitation assessments
Work with DV or child abuse perpetrators
Work compensation or fitness-for-duty assessments
Assessments/Letters for Surgical Procedures
I do not offer crisis services. If you are experiencing an emergency please call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a potent psychobiological method that aims to resolve symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma that accumulates in our body, much like practices utilized in indigenous healing ceremonies. SE is designed to resolve traumatic stress and increase the capacity to re-negotiate stress and trauma.
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It is a Body-Mind (bottom up) approach to healing trauma and increasing resiliency that increases empowerment through understanding the body and increasing sense of agency. Clients learn skills for self-regulation and increased the ability to access functional range of nervous system to promote safety, creativity, compassion, mindfulness, curiosity, openness. and social connection.
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Peter A. Levine, PhD , is the founder of founder of Somatic Experiencing® . However, it is based on a multidisciplinary intersection of indigenous healing practices, physiology, psychology, ethnology, biology, neuroscience, medical biophysics as well as systems theory, mindfulness, psychodynamic, behavioral and humanistic psychotherapies. It has been clinically applied for more than four decades.
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Somatic Experiencing® targets the autonomic nervous system, the “motor” that drives symptoms and behaviors. It works in a slow, gentle way that does not overwhelm to re-establish the natural ability of the nervous system to shift between activation and deactivation to unfreezes the body’s ability to respond appropriately to everyday stresses.
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Somatic Experiencing® helps us release and resolve trauma “stuck” in our body through increased awareness of survival patterns of fight, flight, or freeze. in contrast to traditional talk therapy which has the potential to re-traumatize, SE is focused on the story told by the body and considered a “bottom-up” approach to healing. This allows us to regain access to all the parts of ourselves, experience a full range of emotions from joy to sadness, and reconnect to our body’s innate impulse towards greater mental, physical, and spiritual health.