Trauma is not in the story.It's the body's response to the story.
Helping individuals heal from the body up.
Somatic therapy for change that lasts.
In Sacramento & Online Across California
Helping individuals heal from the body up.
Somatic therapy for change that lasts.
In Sacramento & Online Across California
There’s a constant tightness in your body; you can never fully exhale.
In ordinary moments, something feels off. You are constantly braced, waiting for the other shoe drop or something you can’t quite name.
You spend a lot of energy tracking how you’re coming across, reading the room, staying alert. It’s exhausting carrying that level of tension all the time.
Feeling comfortable in your own skin shouldn’t be this hard to find.
You worry that people can read your thoughts or they just know.
Know what happened. Know that you don’t feel like you belong. Know that you’re an imposter.
It makes it hard to settle in, even around people you care about.
Conversations get filtered, parts of you stay hidden, and there’s a sense of needing to stay one step ahead of being discovered and rejected for being broken.
The nightmares still show up, even though what happened was a long time ago.
Nights turn into hours of lying awake, replaying it all – what happened, what didn’t happen, what should have been different.
The same questions come back: Why didn’t I fight back? Why didn’t I say no? Why didn’t I leave?
That shame is a familiar companion.
You’ve handled this on your own most of your life.
Part of you hoped it would fade with time.
Another part wasn’t sure it was safe, or even possible, to say any of this out loud.
So you keep it quiet, private, hope it will heal on its own.
But deep down, there’s a sense that it hasn’t really shifted in the way you needed it to.
Imagine waking up without that sense of dread. Maybe for the first time, there's a moment of noticing: things don't bother me the way they used to.
Picture feeling more at ease in your body. Connecting with people without needing to hide parts of yourself just to fit in. A growing sense of wholeness, safety from the inside, and more confidence in how you move through the world.
Transformation is possible.
And you don't have to do it alone.
As a former competitive gymnast, I’ve always been drawn to the connection between body and mind. My background naturally led me to a deeper interest in embodiment – how the nervous system holds onto experiences, and how the body learns what feels safe and what feels dangerous, often without us even realizing it.
I specialize in working with sexual and developmental trauma using strategies from Somatic Experiencing, a body-based approach to healing. This isn’t just something I’ve studied. It’s something I’ve experienced firsthand, both as a client and as a practitioner.
I’ve seen how powerful this work can be in helping people move through developmental wounds, sexual trauma, and single-event experiences in a way that actually creates lasting change.
Using active, practical tools – movement, imagery, and somatic awareness – we’ll help shift what’s happening beneath the surface. The goal isn’t just insight, but real change: easing anxiety and depression, building a stronger sense of safety and calm, working through shame, and helping you reconnect with your self-worth so you can show up more fully in your relationships and your life.
Reach out today to schedule a free consultation, and we can talk more to see if this could be a fit for you.
What I Offer
One-on-one sessions for adults ready to move beyond talk therapy, at your body's own pace.
A body-based approach for when you've talked it out but the tension is still there.
A safe, nonjudgmental space for what has stayed quiet and private for too long.
Body-based healing for adults carrying the weight of a difficult childhood.
For deeply sensitive, empathic adults learning to work with their gifts, not against them.
Let's work together to create real and lasting change.
Feel safer in your body, loosen the grip of the past, and start experiencing real shifts in how you move through your life.
You don't have to keep managing it on your own. Let's start there.
Reach out and we'll talk to see if this could be a fit.
