Somatic Therapy Seattle
My fascination with the nervous system has led me to focus my practice on mental health and trauma. Years of being a bodywork practioner, master herbalist, environmental land steward, movement educator, hypnotherapy counselor, and motherhood 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 bring a deep sensitivity to my work having experienced healing transformations of my own path and journey through life. I offer guidance to individuals who are ready to explore their own wounded parts within a nurturing and healing space.
I am a Certified Hakomi Therapist, Registered Hypnotherapy Counselor, a licensed Massage Therapist, and trained in IFS - Internal Family Systems. I have studied and practiced the work of Eugene Gendlin's Focusing, and am certified in Somatic Movement Education. I incorporate Polyvegal Theory, and PSIP - Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy.
Hakomi is a refined method of counseling that includes the non-verbal somatic expression of the body, and blends Internal Family Systems when working deep within trauma memory in the body.
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.
Certified Hakomi Therapist - trained for 7 years with the Seattle Hakomi Educational Network, and the Vancouver Canada Hakomi Network 2018 - 2025
Washington State Registered Hypnotherapy Counselor - 2019 to present
Internal Family Systems - Level 1 completion - 2020
Licensed Medical Massage Therapist - 1973 to present
Somatic Movement Practitioner - 5 year training with the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA) 1996 - 2001
Taught somatic movement education in Finland to neuro diverse children ages 3-17 along with their care givers, staff , teachers, and parents. 2003-2004
Permaculture Design Certificate New Zeland 2005-06
BA/BS Environmental Science & Education with an 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 - 2009 - 2012
Large scale land use regeneration, design, instellation, maintenance, nurseryman, propagation - 1974 - present
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
