IN-PERSON SESSIONS IN LOS ANGELES (PASADENA AREA)
ONLINE SESSIONS ACROSS THE WORLD
INDIVIDUALS ~ COUPLES ~ GROUP WORK
You may have learned to manage yourself without ever knowing how to inhabit yourself. I know this not only as a practitioner, but as someone who lived it. As an immigrant who lost both parents early 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, and continue to learn, in this process, so that you can come to trust your own body as a source of living wisdom and a guide through the mystery of your life.
A different kind of healing process, where your body leads
This work is not conventional. It weaves together solid, research-backed therapeutic foundations with the language and wisdom of a body that feels, thinks, and expresses - not beyond logic, but in deep collaboration with it.
Unlike approaches where the body is secondary, here it is central. This is integrative work.
You will learn to draw resources from your your life story, and remember that there is deep wisdom in sensing and 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.
I came to this work through my own necessity. It gave me back to myself, offering me a structured way of working with intuition and felt sense, a path out of chronic survival and back into ease, safety, and trust in my own body and life.
And it opened something I felt, but didn't know how to name: that artistic expression was nourishing and transforming. That it could be how I learn about myself, and how I learn to let others see me as I am too.
That discovery changed everything about how I work and how I live - and it carried me through the hardest moment of my life.
Who this work is for
I work with people of all genders, centering the experiences of women. Much of my work is concerned with dismantling what patriarchy has inscribed in our bodies - the holding patterns, the silences, the inherited stories about what we are allowed to feel, take up, and become.
I welcome anyone ready to question the narratives they've inherited and find new ways of being with themselves and in the world.
Whether you're just beginning your healing journey or already understand yourself but aren't sure how to feel and move forward differently, this work meets you where you are.
It's also for those who already feel at home in their bodies and want to expand self-expression and live a more creative and soulful life.
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.
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How it works in practice
I work in private practice and with groups. Individual processes follow a rhythm similar to conventional therapy, with flexibility for longer sessions or wider intervals depending on your needs. I also offer one-off sessions for those seeking one-time support or a starting point for deeper work. For groups, I offer occasional public workshops and custom-designed experiences for private groups, organizations, and community spaces.
These are always spaces of deep listening and empathic reflection, where the body is the authority in the room.
We work with somatic movement, expressive dance, spontaneous writing, intuitive drawing, conscious breath, voice, embodied imagination, and depth-oriented inquiry; not as techniques to master, but as doorways into what lives beneath conscious awareness - emotions, implicit memories, old scripts, silenced desires, dormant talents, and parts of yourself longing for space to exist.
Nothing here is imposed or mechanical. The creative process is about permission, not perfection, and what matters is simply the willingness to show up and let your body reveal the way forward.
Over time, people find not only an expanded capacity to navigate emotional life with autonomy and ease, but a greater ability to communicate, to play, to feel grounded and self-trusting, and to receive and give love. They discover within themselves the resources to change what is no longer working in their lives.
This is work you feel in your body and see change your life.
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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
To heal and grow in the company of others is its own medicine. These sessions offer space to feel, play, and be witnessed — weaving somatic movement, expressive dance, and creative arts within a container of care. We learn from one another, and remember together what our bodies already know.
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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