Somatic Therapy Seattle
I bring a deep sensitivity to my work. I have spent a lifetime transforming my own suffering. I now seek to offer support to individuals who are ready to explore their own cultural and generational trauma within a nurturing and healing space.
My many years of experience and training in somatic movement education, massage therapy, and hypnotherapy, have also been a part of my deep transformational healing path.
I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist. Hakomi is a refined method of psychotherapy that includes the non-verbal somatic expression of the body. The refined Hakomi method is blended with (IFS) Internal Family Systems.
My fascination with the nervous system has led me to focus my practice on mental health and trauma. Years of being a bodywork practioner, movement educator, and hypnotherapy counselor informed my evolution to focus on somatic counseling with respect for the body's natural ability to heal itself. I have a keen interest in working with clients with anxiety, CPTSD, treatment resistent depression, and psychedelic therapy integration.
I have also spent a lifetime working with and communicating with ecosystems and watersheds to heal and regenerate them from harmful practices. Utilizing regeneration and sustainable land use management principles has allowed me to subsequently participate in transforming organic farming practices within ecosystem regeneration, which cultivate less disruption of the natural world.
I understand the importance of much needed nourishment and connection between humans and the natural environment. I have been able to reinforce ecosystem healing in an Indigenous way, to listen to the needs of the land, and the successive balance within all communities. Indigenous wisdom traditions are conservation of land and life for all.
Outside of one-on-one sessions, my desire is to craft safe group containers for authentic expression and nervous system regulation within community, for healing and group grief healing circles.
I warmly welcome all communities of color and diversity. If you are ready to embrace transformation and healing, I am here to support you, or your group, to greater connectedness.
Rowan gently guides her clients toward discovering the innate wisdom within their own bodies, recognizing that each person holds unique answers tailored to their life’s journey. By fostering an environment of curiosity and self-compassion, she encourages individuals to approach their challenges not with judgment, but with gentle inquiry and acceptance. This compassionate method opens the door for true transformation and healing, allowing old wounds to be understood rather than feared or ignored. Through this process, clients often uncover new strengths and resources within themselves—supportive tools that can be carried forward into future experiences. Rowan’s work honors the belief that deep healing arises when we trust our bodies and treat ourselves with kindness. Ultimately, she helps others reconnect with themselves in a way that is both empowering and deeply nurturing.
Certified Hakomi Therapist - trained for 5 years with the Seattle Hakomi Educational Network 2020 - 2025
Washington State Counseling Hypnotherapy License - 2021 to present
Internal Family Systems - Level 1 completion - 2020
Licensed Medical Massage Therapist - 1974 to present
Somatic Movement Practitioner - 5 year training with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) 1996-2001
BA/BS Environmental Science & Education with and emphasis in watershed regeneration and sustainable land use management - 2008 - 2013
Minor in Ecopsychology: The study of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment through both ecological and psychological principles.
Permaculture Design Certificate New Zeland 2005-06
Community Supported Agricultural practices California, Oregon, Washington 1973-2013
Food Desert Community Foodship design with Rainier Beach Urban Farm and Wetlands - 2010-2013
2 + years with “IndigenEyze” - A women’s + LGBTQIA leadership training in British Columbia First Nations network which is an ongoing training that teaches how to speak to decolonizing, oppression, generational trauma, individual trauma, for communities and families, through traditional methods of learning and through current practices in learning how to speak to colonizing mindsets, world view, and how oppression operates in the day to day within communities of color and greater communities - 2021-2023
Traditional knowledge & Indigenous healing practices with Elders in ceremony and sweat lodge, fasting camp, longhouse Indigenous sacred teachings. Plant Medicines - harvesting/gathering/preparations/uses - ongoing
