Somatic Therapists in First Hill, Seattle, WA

I offer you a safe and compassionate environment to explore what you are struggling with. Through our therapeutic relationship I will work collaboratively with you to move toward a greater sense of wellness, balance and meaning in your life and in your relationships. My approach is integrated, and trauma informed. I incorporate the exploration of family systems and culture with your personal narrative, listen to your emotional landscape, and use a variety of somatic , mindfulness approaches to supported embodied change.

I am currently taking new clients on a limited basis. I work with teens and adult individuals. I specialize in trauma, which underlies many psycho-emotional problems such as anxiety and depression. However, I am chiefly interested in working with people experiencing important life transitions and challenges, especially when they feel stuck, confused, or lost. I am available for a short, no-cost phone interview to answer your questions about my practice.

Contrary to what movies show you about therapy, I won’t give you unwanted advice or simply nod solemnly the whole session. I bring curiosity, compassion, humor, free expression, and movement to join with my clients and help them explore what healing means to them. I hope to empower clients to access their natural abilities and to gently disrupt the unhealthy patterns we humans often get stuck in using more than traditional “talk therapy” approach. My goal is to facilitate somatic healing, so your whole body begins to feel better as you gain new awareness and get “unstuck” from the patterns you’re ready to release.

This time has been isolating and life alternating to say the least. Many of us are left with a feeling of overwhelm as we are separated from one another and cannot participate in the lifestyle routines that once helped us to feel grounded. I have been working with many clients this year to find a source of balance and inner peace when so much of the world has shut down and become unavailable to us. From anxiety, depression and Pandemic PTSD to low motivation and deflation. Feelings of isolation, loneliness and despondency are a few of the many issues I work with in my clients at the moment. Let me help you build your new world!

You are worthy of love, compassion, and tenderness. This can be hard to believe when we have struggled through trauma, abandonment, disconnection, and loss. Often these experiences create a feeling of "not good enough" that is really tough to overcome on our own. We need a healing container where we can be real, vulnerable, and messy, and be met with gentleness, safety, and authentic acceptance. I want you to know you are not alone and you are inherently good, no matter what you have done or what has happened to you. You can heal your heart and feel whole. I'm honored to walk with you on this path.

My therapy practice is facilitated through psychosomatic awareness and informed by years of practice as a community organizer, group dialogue facilitator, and educator at the University of Washington. I have extensive experience working with clients who experienced physical and sexual trauma, as well as clients who have perpetuated violence, themselves. I work with all adult and late-teen populations, specializing in working with adult men and LGBTQ+ folks.

How often do you feel disconnected from yourself: from your body, your wisdom, your light? We are quick to disconnect when we feel overwhelmed, when we've lost our sense of safety, and when we aren't listening to or honoring our needs. When we're disconnected, we're not fully present and it can feel like life is passing us by. Joy, contentment, and wonder might seem like only a distant mirage--but I believe that becoming more aligned in ourselves is always possible. It's an important part of finding meaningful connection with others, realizing our purpose, and trusting ourselves so we can move through life with more ease.

I work with adults and teens 16+ across all genders who experience feelings of detachment from others and the world. I specialize in working with those who are affected by depression, anxiety, bipolar disorder, and those who have experienced trauma. My therapeutic style draws from my training in existential and somatic therapies, emphasizing the unique life experience of an individual as the foundation to healing.

I work collaboratively with each client, offering a compassionate and supportive approach. I value the power of music, visual art, poetry and movement to reveal and cultivate the strengths and innate potential of each person.

This life is full of many kinds of challenges. Each human being is a unique and brilliant spark of the divine and within each and everyone is a birthright to be healthy and live in joy. I offer a safe neutral space for you to heal and grow into the best version of yourself and the divine self that is guiding and present now. My therapy style is peaceful, warm, and caring. I believe in treating anyone with kindness, and compassion. In this path of being of service as a therapist I have found the therapeutic relationship to be a true path leading to lasting change, and reclamation of the true authentic self. " We restore one another"

Porta Verum Psychotherapy Services provides comprehensive psychotherapy services for individuals, couples and families so they can heal through traumas and overcome their mental, emotional, psychological and interpersonal challenges so that they can experience life worth living with joy, connection, empowerment and love. We are a group of experienced, passionate and dedicated therapists who are committed to an exceptional quality of care, and utilizing a range of best practice modalities to facilitate transformation in people’s lives. We offer psychotherapy services to children of all ages, adults, families and couples.

My role is to be a lighthouse. I am here to help you through the storm. Lighthouses do not judge why the storm is happening, instead, they are a beacon to help find the way through the roaring waves. I can’t steer the boat for you, but I can shine some light. Healing through therapy is one of collaboration, communication, and trust. Healing is an individual process, and it is not a linear one. A hard day does not mean failure. My hope is together, and we can discover tools that help the hard days have less of an impact. I believe you are the expert in your own story.

I help client's heal from trauma and re-establish a relationship with their intuition and learn how to trust themselves again. I help client’s through a deconditioning process to challenge past lessons and messages that no longer serve them so they can realign with their true self. I believe that each person is unique and requires an individual approach to treatment. I use a variety of modalities such as Eye Movement Desensitization Therapy (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, Somatic -based therapies, and parts work such as Internal Family Systems and Ego-State interventions.

I am a white, neurodivergent, pansexual, cismale, and 3rd generation Italian-North European immigrant living on Puyallup / Steilacoom lands (Fircrest, WA) but born and raised in Očhéthi Šakówiŋ / Wahpekute lands (Minneapolis, MN). I work from a place that acknowledges my own identity and privileges in effort to help clients address their own identity, struggles, and role in systems of oppression. I value activism and allyship including addressing political issues directly in my work, examining my own assumptions and blind spots, and working to always increase my awareness of oppression and systemic issues.

You are enough, and I am here to support you. I understand what it is like to feel intense anxiety and deep depression. I can also relate to being a teenager who feels stressed, alone, different, and like no one gets it. If you are a survivor of trauma, I see you. I am here to listen compassionately and offer you powerful practices that cultivate calm, safety, and healing. As a family therapist, I also enjoy working alongside parents and teens to help strengthen relationships, rebuild trust, and learn how to communicate in a way that leaves each person feeling heard and respected. It is then that the path forward can begin.