Therapists in Santa Rosa, CA
Aleta Greenspan
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
I utilize breathwork, somatic exploration, creative inquiry, nonviolent communication, and healing shame to empower you with self awareness, compassion and tools for growth.
The word “heal” comes from “to make whole.” Psychotherapy, more aptly psyche-therapy, is a sacred process of tending to the soul wound and waking more fully to one’s aliveness and inherent wholeness. I am deeply passionate about supporting you in healing the fragmented and disowned parts of self that hinder you from living a life of meaningful connections, purposeful self-agency and joy. We work collaboratively to creatively transform unconscious and limiting belief structures, access your resiliencies, welcome emerging truths, skillfully navigate adversity with new tools, and integrate insights for profound and evolving change.
I utilize breathwork, somatic exploration, creative inquiry, nonviolent communication, and healing shame to empower you with self awareness, compassion and tools for growth.
The word “heal” comes from “to make whole.” Psychotherapy, more aptly psyche-therapy, is a sacred process of tending to the soul wound and waking more fully to one’s aliveness and inherent wholeness. I am deeply passionate about supporting you in healing the fragmented and disowned parts of self that hinder you from living a life of meaningful connections, purposeful self-agency and joy. We work collaboratively to creatively transform unconscious and limiting belief structures, access your resiliencies, welcome emerging truths, skillfully navigate adversity with new tools, and integrate insights for profound and evolving change.
M Patricia Graef
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Rosa, CA 95402
I'm trained in Orgonomy and mindfulness practices and use verbal and somatic approaches in therapy.
Whatever is troubling you, anxiety or depression, a personal crisis or loss, difficulties with a partner or concern about a child's behavior - relief is possible. I work with individuals, children, teens, adults, couples and families, and treat a wide range of the human experience, including anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, panic attacks, borderline personality disorder, bi-polar conditions and anger management. My approach is character analytic which offers an opportunity for clients to experience a wider range of feelings, resulting in more energy and an ability to move through life's difficulties and experience life's pleasures.
I'm trained in Orgonomy and mindfulness practices and use verbal and somatic approaches in therapy.
Whatever is troubling you, anxiety or depression, a personal crisis or loss, difficulties with a partner or concern about a child's behavior - relief is possible. I work with individuals, children, teens, adults, couples and families, and treat a wide range of the human experience, including anxiety, depression, grief, PTSD, panic attacks, borderline personality disorder, bi-polar conditions and anger management. My approach is character analytic which offers an opportunity for clients to experience a wider range of feelings, resulting in more energy and an ability to move through life's difficulties and experience life's pleasures.
Elizabeth Schreiber
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
I utilize traditional talk therapy as well as play, art, and somatic therapies.
Finding safety and the conditions in which to explore all aspects of your experience are vital components in the therapeutic process. The introduction of art, play, and somatic therapies may provide additional ways to bring creativity to the exploration of the material at hand.
I work with children and adults and I specialize in exploring and reconnecting to one's core self. Trauma, illness, and anxiety can disrupt this essential connection - it can be regained.
I utilize traditional talk therapy as well as play, art, and somatic therapies.
Finding safety and the conditions in which to explore all aspects of your experience are vital components in the therapeutic process. The introduction of art, play, and somatic therapies may provide additional ways to bring creativity to the exploration of the material at hand.
I work with children and adults and I specialize in exploring and reconnecting to one's core self. Trauma, illness, and anxiety can disrupt this essential connection - it can be regained.
Diane Camurat
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
Santa Rosa, CA 95404
The issues that bring us to therapy serve as openings to our true nature, and as bridges to self-compassion. When we discover or remember who we are beyond our suffering, and attend to the authentic being that has been neglected in the process, healing can begin to happen.
The issues that bring us to therapy serve as openings to our true nature, and as bridges to self-compassion. When we discover or remember who we are beyond our suffering, and attend to the authentic being that has been neglected in the process, healing can begin to happen.
Keystone Therapy & Training Services
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Santa Rosa, CA 95409
Sometimes looking for what you need is harder than you thought. Our Keystone team provides services that meet people in the different stages in their lives and goes along side you through your own self-determined growth process.
Sometimes looking for what you need is harder than you thought. Our Keystone team provides services that meet people in the different stages in their lives and goes along side you through your own self-determined growth process.
Sharon (Phoenix) Piwowarski
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Santa Rosa, CA 95403 (Online Only)
We are in the midst of uncertain and trying times. Some of the feelings you are likely experiencing are fear, grief, frustration, confusion, isolation, and anxiety. The global trauma of the Coronavirus may be causing remnants of any previous trauma to resurface. It may also be rocking your sense of security and posing questions of life purpose and direction. And it is most assuredly adding to individual or family stress.
We are in the midst of uncertain and trying times. Some of the feelings you are likely experiencing are fear, grief, frustration, confusion, isolation, and anxiety. The global trauma of the Coronavirus may be causing remnants of any previous trauma to resurface. It may also be rocking your sense of security and posing questions of life purpose and direction. And it is most assuredly adding to individual or family stress.
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Maddy Cacciatore
Associate Clinical Social Worker, MSW
Verified Verified
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Waitlist for new clients
As a therapist I believe I am here to create a safe container for us to honor your human experience in all of its messy, beautiful, and complicated parts. In our work together we will collaboratively identify and challenge the patterns, experiences, and narratives that no longer serve you, to create a space ripe for welcoming in your most favorite and aligned self. I believe that in a process of deep acceptance and release, we gain access to do profound healing work. I am honored to work with folks of all backgrounds, identities, and goals, and with all ages (4+ years old). I accept Partnership Medi-Cal and private pay.
As a therapist I believe I am here to create a safe container for us to honor your human experience in all of its messy, beautiful, and complicated parts. In our work together we will collaboratively identify and challenge the patterns, experiences, and narratives that no longer serve you, to create a space ripe for welcoming in your most favorite and aligned self. I believe that in a process of deep acceptance and release, we gain access to do profound healing work. I am honored to work with folks of all backgrounds, identities, and goals, and with all ages (4+ years old). I accept Partnership Medi-Cal and private pay.
Xochi Lubin-Amaya
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, SEP, 200 RYT
Verified Verified
Sebastopol, CA 95472
Not accepting new clients
I practice patient centered, trauma and activation informed, strength based, culturally and somatic approaches to therapy. I tend to make it a practice to approach my relationship and connection with clients from a place of kindness and care. I collaborate with people as active participants in their life to support empowerment and movement towards equity and justice. I focus on consent, agency, pacing, empathy, sensation, and connection to self as well as the world around one self. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist who sees clients only through Teen Clinic at West County Health Center in Sebastopol, California.
I practice patient centered, trauma and activation informed, strength based, culturally and somatic approaches to therapy. I tend to make it a practice to approach my relationship and connection with clients from a place of kindness and care. I collaborate with people as active participants in their life to support empowerment and movement towards equity and justice. I focus on consent, agency, pacing, empathy, sensation, and connection to self as well as the world around one self. I am a licensed marriage and family therapist who sees clients only through Teen Clinic at West County Health Center in Sebastopol, California.
Online Therapists
Ellie Lotan
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94705 (Online Only)
I believe that the soul has an innate drive toward healing. We each have the capacity to heal ourselves if we can slow down enough to notice what is asking for our attention. I approach therapy as a weekly collaborative ritual in which clients can become more skilled at listening and giving voice to their inner knowing. Weaving together tools from expressive arts, somatic experiencing, and trauma-informed relational psychotherapy, I offer an integrated, whole-person approach in which we work as a team to uncover your intuitive guidance and learn how to tap in to the wisdom of your higher self.
I believe that the soul has an innate drive toward healing. We each have the capacity to heal ourselves if we can slow down enough to notice what is asking for our attention. I approach therapy as a weekly collaborative ritual in which clients can become more skilled at listening and giving voice to their inner knowing. Weaving together tools from expressive arts, somatic experiencing, and trauma-informed relational psychotherapy, I offer an integrated, whole-person approach in which we work as a team to uncover your intuitive guidance and learn how to tap in to the wisdom of your higher self.
Phyllis Rothblatt
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Berkeley, CA 94709 (Online Only)
I integrate EMDR, mindfulness meditation, play & expressive arts, somatic awareness, and humor into my work.
As a therapist for over thirty years, the focus of my work is helping people to create and sustain healthy relationships, and to learn how to thrive in their lives. I listen carefully to the nuances of what you say and don't say, and help you to become more aware of your unconscious beliefs and the energy that you hold in your body that may be an obstacle to your creating the life and relationships that you yearn for. Together, we take the journey of understanding and resolving what is in your way, so that you can discover new pathways to live your life with more joy, ease and connection.
I integrate EMDR, mindfulness meditation, play & expressive arts, somatic awareness, and humor into my work.
As a therapist for over thirty years, the focus of my work is helping people to create and sustain healthy relationships, and to learn how to thrive in their lives. I listen carefully to the nuances of what you say and don't say, and help you to become more aware of your unconscious beliefs and the energy that you hold in your body that may be an obstacle to your creating the life and relationships that you yearn for. Together, we take the journey of understanding and resolving what is in your way, so that you can discover new pathways to live your life with more joy, ease and connection.
Jennifer Smee
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Berkeley, CA 94710
I offer somatic and relational depth psychotherapy to adults, elders, couples, and children.
All life is a relationship. From our very first moments and onward, what happens in relationship teaches us about how to be in the world. We continually form certain core beliefs, ways of thinking, patterns of tension, and ways of moving our body that can be both healthy and limiting. Trauma, abuse, neglect, and other wounding contribute to how we form our relationship with the world and with ourselves. All of our past experiences have an impact on our present experience. Our day to day life can then be full of a sense of meaninglessness, emotional and physical pain, chronic anxiety, mistrust, or general unease.
I offer somatic and relational depth psychotherapy to adults, elders, couples, and children.
All life is a relationship. From our very first moments and onward, what happens in relationship teaches us about how to be in the world. We continually form certain core beliefs, ways of thinking, patterns of tension, and ways of moving our body that can be both healthy and limiting. Trauma, abuse, neglect, and other wounding contribute to how we form our relationship with the world and with ourselves. All of our past experiences have an impact on our present experience. Our day to day life can then be full of a sense of meaninglessness, emotional and physical pain, chronic anxiety, mistrust, or general unease.
Sarah DelMonte
Associate Clinical Social Worker, MA, ASW
Verified Verified
Oakland, CA 94601 (Online Only)
Are you sensing a budding awareness in yourself of difficult patterns in your life that you wish to transform and grow through? It would be an honor to support you on your healing journey. I’m a therapist with a trauma-informed, client-centered lens and I utilize various creative modalities to help my clients experience greater insight, self-love, and balance in their lives. Some of the tools I use are art therapy, narrative therapy, meditation, dance movement therapy, as well somatic and sensory interventions. I also have training in SE, ACT, DBT, and CBT and these modalities influence my eclectic therapeutic technique.
Are you sensing a budding awareness in yourself of difficult patterns in your life that you wish to transform and grow through? It would be an honor to support you on your healing journey. I’m a therapist with a trauma-informed, client-centered lens and I utilize various creative modalities to help my clients experience greater insight, self-love, and balance in their lives. Some of the tools I use are art therapy, narrative therapy, meditation, dance movement therapy, as well somatic and sensory interventions. I also have training in SE, ACT, DBT, and CBT and these modalities influence my eclectic therapeutic technique.
Marcia Romero
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, SEP, NMP, SSP
Verified Verified
San Francisco, CA 94141 (Online Only)
I have 20 years of public and private experience as a trauma informed, somatic psychotherapist. I guide exploratory inquiry to support embodied insight making positive change possible. This depth process inspires a new connection to self and a movement towards desired shifts in health, relationships and vocation, decreasing the suffering of negative internal states, destructive patterns and distorted beliefs caused by early environmental & attachment wounding . I invite safe passage on a mindful journey of healing, awakening presence, trust, the expansion of agency and life affirming realizations that promote post traumatic growth.
I have 20 years of public and private experience as a trauma informed, somatic psychotherapist. I guide exploratory inquiry to support embodied insight making positive change possible. This depth process inspires a new connection to self and a movement towards desired shifts in health, relationships and vocation, decreasing the suffering of negative internal states, destructive patterns and distorted beliefs caused by early environmental & attachment wounding . I invite safe passage on a mindful journey of healing, awakening presence, trust, the expansion of agency and life affirming realizations that promote post traumatic growth.
Angela Zhe Wu
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Mountain View, CA 94043
My treatment is holistic approach including modalities such as CBT, Mindfulness, EMDR, EFT marriage counseling, and some somatic work.
In the TV show "Sex and City" there is a line: " in this city ( New York) everyone is looking for something, a job, an apartment, or a partner. " Underline this, you can feel the anxiety and the need for certainty, comfort and connection. These are human existial needs and I can help you with: stress, anxiety, depression that are related to work, personal/intimate relationship, relationship with children, and developmental trauma. I believe in therapy is to help people to return to normal life, work and develop more enjoyable things.
My treatment is holistic approach including modalities such as CBT, Mindfulness, EMDR, EFT marriage counseling, and some somatic work.
In the TV show "Sex and City" there is a line: " in this city ( New York) everyone is looking for something, a job, an apartment, or a partner. " Underline this, you can feel the anxiety and the need for certainty, comfort and connection. These are human existial needs and I can help you with: stress, anxiety, depression that are related to work, personal/intimate relationship, relationship with children, and developmental trauma. I believe in therapy is to help people to return to normal life, work and develop more enjoyable things.
Christina Martinez
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
San Mateo, CA 94401 (Online Only)
My foundation is grounded upon Systems Theory, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems Theory, Somatic/Polyvagal Theory, and Mindfulness.
To live is to feel pain in its various expressions. Our relationships with our family systems are often the blueprint by which we respond to the experience. Certain responses can result in experiences of depression, anxiety, or the habitual urge to numb ourselves. The ability to experience, hold space for, and then release our pain is the path to healing; where your heart and mind stop fighting and arrive together finding acceptance, peace, and understanding. "The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away." – Victoria Arlen.
My foundation is grounded upon Systems Theory, Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Internal Family Systems Theory, Somatic/Polyvagal Theory, and Mindfulness.
To live is to feel pain in its various expressions. Our relationships with our family systems are often the blueprint by which we respond to the experience. Certain responses can result in experiences of depression, anxiety, or the habitual urge to numb ourselves. The ability to experience, hold space for, and then release our pain is the path to healing; where your heart and mind stop fighting and arrive together finding acceptance, peace, and understanding. "The climb might be tough and challenging, but the view is worth it. There is a purpose for that pain; you just can’t always see it right away." – Victoria Arlen.
Diana Halfmann
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
1 Endorsed
San Francisco, CA 94110
I listen with the intent of thoroughly understanding your concerns, unhealthy patterns, what might be keeping you stuck, as well as your vision for what you want more of in your life. I'm trained in and offer mindfulness practices, somatic interventions, CBT, expressive arts, as well as have a deep understanding of family systems and attachment styles so you will be able to understand your adaptive strategies from the past and make the changes in order to live your highest potential. I'm gender affirming and LGBTQ+ ally.
I listen with the intent of thoroughly understanding your concerns, unhealthy patterns, what might be keeping you stuck, as well as your vision for what you want more of in your life. I'm trained in and offer mindfulness practices, somatic interventions, CBT, expressive arts, as well as have a deep understanding of family systems and attachment styles so you will be able to understand your adaptive strategies from the past and make the changes in order to live your highest potential. I'm gender affirming and LGBTQ+ ally.
Michal Rokach Shamay
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, R-DMT
Verified Verified
Albany, CA 94706
I am extensively trained at Mindfulness Based approaches to therapy, Dance and Movement therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy and Somatic Psychology, and family, child and adolescents therapy.
My practice combines both mind and body approaches to support change. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Registered Dance and Movement Therapist. I have experience treating a wide variety of psychological and emotional difficulties in adult, teenagers and children. I feel very grateful for the opportunities to work with those seeking a greater sense of well-being, satisfaction in relationships, and understanding of self. In therapy, I am working in both verbal and non-verbal ways, including somatic psychology techniques for adults and play therapy for children.
I am extensively trained at Mindfulness Based approaches to therapy, Dance and Movement therapy, Expressive Arts Therapy and Somatic Psychology, and family, child and adolescents therapy.
My practice combines both mind and body approaches to support change. I am a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and a Registered Dance and Movement Therapist. I have experience treating a wide variety of psychological and emotional difficulties in adult, teenagers and children. I feel very grateful for the opportunities to work with those seeking a greater sense of well-being, satisfaction in relationships, and understanding of self. In therapy, I am working in both verbal and non-verbal ways, including somatic psychology techniques for adults and play therapy for children.
Aditi Uttarwar - Little Seedlings Therapy Center
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MA, LPCC, R-DMT
Verified Verified
2 Endorsed
Alameda, CA 94501
Somatic work and learning from the wisdom of our body can have transformative healing and I am here to guide you and hold you through that.
I am a licensed clinical professional counselor and a registered dance movement therapist. My expertise encompasses postpartum, pregnancy, parenting, as well as support for infants, children, and families. My therapeutic approach is rooted in harnessing the body's wisdom, allowing us to explore and effect change through the body. I guide you in understanding body signals and collaboratively develop strategies to facilitate the desired transformations. I believe in the power of nonverbal communication and self-expression to foster emotional growth and strengthen connections within these vital relationships.
Somatic work and learning from the wisdom of our body can have transformative healing and I am here to guide you and hold you through that.
I am a licensed clinical professional counselor and a registered dance movement therapist. My expertise encompasses postpartum, pregnancy, parenting, as well as support for infants, children, and families. My therapeutic approach is rooted in harnessing the body's wisdom, allowing us to explore and effect change through the body. I guide you in understanding body signals and collaboratively develop strategies to facilitate the desired transformations. I believe in the power of nonverbal communication and self-expression to foster emotional growth and strengthen connections within these vital relationships.
Pamela Lopez
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
San Francisco, CA 94117
It may involve somatic based work, art, storytelling and other modalities which will give us an opportunity to safely delve into exploring your internal world.
We are currently surviving, learning to navigate our lives during a health crisis. With such a fast pace, I deeply believe therapy provides us the container to check in with ourselves and find that moment to catch up. I invite you to give yourself the gift of three deep breaths - inhale deeply and exhale slowly letting something go repeat another two times. No matter what brings you into therapy, I aim to create a safe space alongside you. Every person is an expert on their own lives and I am here to simply help as WE discover and learn the tools to live a life that feels most authentic to YOU.
It may involve somatic based work, art, storytelling and other modalities which will give us an opportunity to safely delve into exploring your internal world.
We are currently surviving, learning to navigate our lives during a health crisis. With such a fast pace, I deeply believe therapy provides us the container to check in with ourselves and find that moment to catch up. I invite you to give yourself the gift of three deep breaths - inhale deeply and exhale slowly letting something go repeat another two times. No matter what brings you into therapy, I aim to create a safe space alongside you. Every person is an expert on their own lives and I am here to simply help as WE discover and learn the tools to live a life that feels most authentic to YOU.
Buffy Trupp
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, RCC
Verified Verified
San Francisco, CA 94115 (Online Only)
Individual Somatic Psychotherapy: While I incorporate a variety of modalities into my work as a somatic psychotherapist, I tend to focus on present-moment states of being. This means that I pay close attention to what’s happening in the room, in your body, and between you and me, during our sessions. You may be curious and yet hesitant; hopeful and yet afraid. I help you embody the resilience you need to become the person you’ve always wanted to be.
Individual Somatic Psychotherapy: While I incorporate a variety of modalities into my work as a somatic psychotherapist, I tend to focus on present-moment states of being. This means that I pay close attention to what’s happening in the room, in your body, and between you and me, during our sessions. You may be curious and yet hesitant; hopeful and yet afraid. I help you embody the resilience you need to become the person you’ve always wanted to be.
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How does somatic therapy work?
Somatic therapy is a form of treatment that focuses on how the body and mind are interconnected. In this approach, physical symptoms are addressed because they may in fact signal emotional distress. Somatic therapists combine mindfulness, talk therapy, breathwork, yoga, dance, and physical manipulations of the body to help patients become more attuned to what their body is telling them.
Is EMDR a somatic therapy?
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a form of somatic therapy, as it incorporates mental and physical principles. EMDR involves remembering a traumatic experience while allowing one’s eyes to track a side-to-side visual stimulus from a therapist. This lateral eye movement is believed to diminish the painful power of the memory so that it can be discussed with a therapist.
Is somatic therapy evidence-based?
Somatic therapy has been researched and studied, and some forms of somatic therapy are found to be effective in treating a wide range of conditions. Because somatic therapy encompasses many techniques, some, such as EMDR and meditation, have been studied more than others.
What is somatic trauma therapy?
Somatic trauma therapy is based on the idea that when people experience trauma, they can become stuck in the “freeze” part of a “fight, flight, or freeze” response. In this state, trauma can manifest itself both mentally and physically—through tension in the muscles, anxiety, and stress. Popular forms of somatic trauma therapy include EMDR, sensorimotor therapy, and somatic experiencing.