SOMATIC-EXPRESSIVE THERAPIES FOR HEALING AND SELF-INTIMACY
Reconnect with your body as creative and healing force
The heart of my work
As an immigrant and someone who lost both parents prematurely and was uprooted from my place of origin, I know what it is to feel without a home in the world.
Over time, my search for belonging led me back to my own body; the one place that has always been mine to inhabit.
My work is about sharing what I’ve learned in this process, so that you too can inhabit your body as a source of living wisdom, and as a creative and healing force.
One of the most beautiful aspects of this work is that it isn’t conventional. It weaves together solid, research-backed therapeutic foundations with the language and wisdom of a body that feels and expresses beyond logic—or rather, in collaboration with it. Unlike approaches where the body is secondary, here it is central. This is integrative work.
You will learn how to draw resources from your pain, and remember that there is deep wisdom in feeling.
Your body will not be corrected, measured, or pathologized, but invited to speak the parts of your story that cannot be expressed through words alone.
More than a methodology, this is a path of remembrance that brings us back to the body as home and guide.
My path
My work was born from a personal search for belonging, expression, and healing. Throughout my life, I faced traumatic experiences that distanced me from my sense of enoughness and capacity, and it was through my body that I found my way back.
At 36, already working as a therapist and educator, I received a breast cancer diagnosis that shook the ground beneath me. Thanks to the intimacy I had cultivated with my body over the years, I was able to meet that challenge with presence of spirit. The deep listening I had learned to practice—to my physical, emotional, and mental landscapes—became both my ground and my guide.
That time revealed, more clearly than ever, that self-care is not indulgence or consumption, but the daily tending of body/mind, and spirit; and that true well-being is found in living in alignment with one’s values, cycles, and needs. This is what I offer through this work.
I am a somatic movement therapist and educator, and expressive arts therapy practitioner. I am certified in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process® (an expressive arts therapy methodology), registered as a Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator (ISMETA), and certified as a meditation and mindfulness educator. My practice is also informed by studies in trauma, body-centered psychology, psychoanalysis, feminism, Buddhist philosophy, Internal Family Systems, and embodied spirituality.
More than anything, I am a woman in service to people seeking alternatives to the systems and patterns that make us unwell. I welcome each person with deep respect, and with a commitment to walk, intentionally and attentively, alongside them in their process.
Who this work is for
I work with people of all genders, centering the experiences of women and non-binary folks. Much of my work addresses the specific wounds carried in marginalized bodies, while also welcoming men who are ready to question the narratives they’ve inherited and explore new ways of relating to themselves and others.
My approach is collaborative, bringing embodied integration to intellectual insight.
Whether you’re just beginning your healing journey or already understand your history and patterns but aren’t sure how to move forward, this work offers support for the next steps.
It’s also for those who already feel at home in their bodies and want to expand creative expression and deepen lived experience.
You don’t need to know how to dance, draw, meditate, or write. You just need to arrive with curiosity and a little courage. The rest, we’ll do together.
This work is ideal for anyone seeking a more authentic way of being with themselves and in relationship, and for bringing more creativity into daily life regardless of the kind of work they do in the world.
If you feel it’s time to listen to yourself more attentively, this space is for you.
How it works in practice
I work both in private practice and with groups.
Individual processes typically follow a rhythm similar to conventional therapy, while allowing flexibility for longer sessions or wider intervals between them, depending on your needs. I also offer one-off sessions for those seeking focused support or a starting point for deeper work.
In group settings, I facilitate a Women’s Therapy Group that meets weekly in monthly cycles. I also offer occasional public workshops and custom-designed workshops for private groups, whether through individuals, organizations, or community spaces.
These are always spaces of deep listening, where the body has voice. Nothing is imposed or mechanical.
We use movement, spontaneous writing, intuitive drawing, conscious breath, and active imagination to drop deeper into the body and access what lives beneath conscious awareness.
These resources help us express, explore, and integrate subtle emotions, stored memories, silenced desires, dormant talents, and parts of the self longing for space to exist.
There is no right or wrong here. You don’t need to know how to do it. What matters is the willingness to show up and let the creative process reveal the way forward.
Throughout the process, people often report not only an expanded capacity for navigating challenging emotions, but also a greater ability to communicate effectively, tap into creativity and playfulness, and feel more grounded, clear, and self-trusting. They find within themselves the resources to change what is no longer working, doing so with care and support.
This is work you feel in your body. It invites you to come back inside, to truly listen to yourself, and, in your own time, transform the way you relate to yourself and to life beyond you.
Methods and approach
SOMATIC MOVEMENT THERAPY AND EDUCATION
A body-based approach to healing and learning that helps people connect more deeply with their physical sensations, emotions, and movement. Through guided exploration, it supports self-awareness, emotional regulation, and creative expression, while encouraging healthier, more integrated ways of moving and being in the world.
TAMALPA LIFE/ART PROCESS®
A movement-based expressive arts approach that uses dance, drawing, and creative writing to explore personal stories and life themes. It helps people connect body, emotions, and imagination, turning lived experience into art as a way to heal, gain insight, and create new possibilities for living.
SOMATIC PARTS-WORK (IFS-INFORMED)
Grounded in the somatic experience, we explore the different “parts” of ourselves—such as inner critics, protectors, or vulnerable parts—through sensation, movement, creative expression and narrative. By engaging these parts in the body, we can listen to their needs, release old patterns, and integrate them into a more connected, whole sense of self.
SOMATIC MINDFULNESS
The practice of bringing awareness to the present moment through the experience of the body. By tuning in to breath, movement, and felt experience, it supports emotional regulation, reduces stress, and deepens the body/mind connection.
GROUP PROCESSES
Explore somatic movement, dance, and expressive arts within a supportive community. Through shared experiences, we nurture connection and collective healing. These sessions offer space to feel, play, and learn from one another, cultivating a sense of belonging while integrating the wisdom held in our bodies and stories.
Listen
Is it love or anxiety?
Sometimes we confuse feeling anxious with falling in love. In such moments, we replace the real tragedy of our lives—the pain that we need to face if we want to heal, grow, and have healthy relationships—with drama. And drama is seductive, because the anxiety of highs and lows occupies us and gives us a reason to avoid facing our own existential anguish.
As a Professional Member of the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association, I meet the high Standards of Practice and uphold the Code of Ethics. For more information visit www.ISMETA.org
I am a certified practitioner of the Tamalpa Life/Art Process®, 'an integrated approach that explores the wisdom of the body as expressed through movement, dance, and imagination.'
For more information visit www.tamalpa.org
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