Services overview
Somatic & Depth Psychotherapy in Los Angeles
A holistic approach that embraces the mind, body, and spirit throughout the treatment process.
Offerings
Different entry points, not a fixed path
I work from the premise that the psyche already knows things your conscious mind hasn't yet found words for. Much of what brings someone into this work isn't a problem to be solved so much as a story still finding its shape — carried in the body, in dream, in the patterns and images that keep returning until they're finally met.
My orientation is depth-oriented, rooted in Jungian and archetypal traditions — and also in conversation with them. Those traditions were built inside a particular view of the psyche, often a narrow and Western one, and I hold them alongside a wider frame. That means I don't work from the assumption that there's one myth, one map of the unconscious, or one version of "the human experience" that your story gets measured against. Your psyche carries your own lineage — your body, your ancestors, the particular world and history you come from — and that's the ground the work starts from, not something to be translated into someone else's framework first.
What I offer isn't a program or a set of techniques aimed at a fixed outcome. It's a space to be witnessed and accompanied while what's underneath finds its own way toward being known, at its own pace.
Integrative Therapy From my office in Pasadena.
Individuals often come to this work carrying things like:
A life that looks complete from the outside, but feels quietly incomplete from within
A sense that there's a deeper calling or creative work waiting to be lived, without a clear way in
Outgrowing roles, relationships, or a version of yourself that used to fit — without yet knowing what's next
Patterns or blocks that keep repeating even after real inner work has already been done
Moments of expanded awareness, spiritual opening, or synchronicity that haven't yet found a place to be metabolized
Wanting a depth of reflection and accompaniment that hasn't been available anywhere else
Mind and body are two channels through which the same current moves. What surfaces as a thought has usually already moved through the body first — as sensation, as tension, as breath — long before it finds its way into words.
Much of this work draws on psychodynamic and depth-oriented approaches — tending to the patterns and inherited stories that took root in your life long before you had any say in the matter, shaped by ground and seasons that came before you.
For someone who already knows a great deal about themselves, this isn't about finding more roots. It's about staying with the ones already there long enough for something to finally grow past where it's been holding.
THERAPEUTIC MODALITIES
APPROACHES THAT HONOR PSYCHE, BODY, RELATIONSHIPS, AND THE LIVING WORLD
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Depth Psychotherapy
Depth psychotherapy explores what lives beneath conscious awareness through dreams, symbolism, archetypes, mythology, and inherited stories. This reflective work helps you listen for meaning in your experiences and develop a deeper relationship with your inner world.
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Somatic Experiencing®
Somatic Experiencing® brings the body into the therapeutic process, helping you notice sensations, patterns, and nervous-system responses with greater awareness. This embodied approach can support trauma resolution, regulation, and a deeper sense of connection and presence.
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EMDR Therapy
EMDR therapy supports the processing of distressing or traumatic experiences that may continue to affect how you feel and respond in the present. It offers a structured way to work with past experiences while supporting greater integration and emotional relief.
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Ecotherapy
Ecotherapy invites the natural world to become an active participant in healing rather than simply a backdrop. Through walking, stillness, conversation, and attention to your surroundings, this work can support perspective, resilience, self-understanding, and a deeper sense of belonging.
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Equine Psychotherapy
Equine psychotherapy is a ground-based, relational approach that begins with listening. Through observation, movement, embodied awareness, and reflection alongside horses, this work can support nervous-system regulation, emotional awareness, and a deeper understanding of how you relate to yourself and others.
SOMATIC AND DEPTH WORK HELPS YOU GET UNSTUCK
By allowing yourself to complete your survival responses safely, the limiting stories and emotions that protected you from unsafety, you learn that you do not have to work so hard. You will access more joy, pleasure, and safety in your body.