Depth Psychology & Somatic Therapy

"The body will again become restless until your soul paints all its beauty upon the sky." — Hafiz

The body carries the imprint of our stories—even when we do not yet consciously know, understand, or remember them. Until the soul finds its full expression, the body remains restless—yearning for what wants to be lived, felt, and brought into form.

We take in the world through our senses. When we are too much in our heads—trapped in painful memories, negative thoughts, or anxious loops—we are not fully present. We may eat without tasting, look without seeing, listen without hearing, touch without feeling. Somatic psychotherapy recognizes that healing cannot happen through words alone. We must return to the body—to listen to what it knows and what it needs.

The Body's Wisdom

Your body is a living intelligence, constantly communicating through sensation, impulse, and intuition. Even posture and personal style are languages of the body—how you choose to hide or reveal yourself, how you close off or open up, how you inhabit space.

How you feel about yourself shapes not just your inner world but your physical presence: a body braced against judgment carries chronic tension, a defended heart may manifest as rounded shoulders, low self-worth as a sunken chest. Over time, these protective responses can become more than habits—they can shape your anatomy, altering alignment, breath, and movement.

Wounds that have not been fully processed cannot be released and thus continue to cause suffering in one or more areas of your life. Through integrative and somatic therapy we tend to what body and psyche are communicating, what needs attention, acknowledgment, processing, or release. This in turn allows more presence, more aliveness, more authentic engagement with life.

Embodied Change

When inner work deepens, it expresses itself through the body. As you evolve emotionally and psychologically, your physical presence shifts—how you inhabit space, how you move, how you hold yourself in relation to others.

You may notice changes you didn't consciously pursue: breathing more fully, standing with less bracing, moving with greater ease or confidence. Psyche and soma mirror each other. True healing happens when both are tended together—when what has been held can finally release, and you become more fully embodied in your own life.

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"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" — Mary Oliver

Creativity is not just about what we make. It is an expression of self-creation—how we live in the world, how we tend to the many aspects of our existence. What makes you feel most alive, fulfilled, inspired? How does your life want to manifest, to express itself? For many, the answer lives in the act of creating—writing, painting, composing, dancing. Yet it is also the creative expression of our unique essence, how we tend to this one wild and precious life.

The Alchemy of Creativity

Creative blocks are rarely just about technique, discipline, or time. More often they signal that something deeper needs attention.

Perhaps there is fear of visibility, of being seen, judged, or misunderstood. Sometimes what appears as procrastination or lack of discipline is actually protection—shielding you from old wounds around worthiness, voice, or the right to be seen. The block may carry unmetabolized grief or trauma, or the weight of inherited expectations—living a life that was prescribed rather than chosen.

We explore what lives beneath the creative block. What are you afraid of? What part of you, in trying to self-protect, is keeping you stuck? What old story are you inhabiting, and what new story is asking to emerge?

Reconnecting to Your Daimon

This process honors the non-rational, mysterious dimensions of creativity. We work with dreams, images, and the symbolic language of the unconscious to support your creative process. We explore the relationship between trauma and creative expression—between the wounds you carry and what your soul cries out for.

For many creatives, the deepest wound is around voice: the fear of being heard, the belief that what you have to say doesn't matter, the shame that arises when you imagine putting your work into the world. Perhaps you were told as a child that your voice was too loud, too soft, too much, not enough. Perhaps you learned early that it was safer to stay small, to not draw attention, to keep your wildness contained.

The Journey of Becoming

Healing is essential work—creativity cannot flourish under the grip of old fears or while tethered to narratives that no longer fit. Freedom comes when these bindings are recognized and loosened.

This is where shadow work becomes most valuable—addressing what has been repressed and reclaiming what needs to be integrated. It is where we meet both the dark and the light, the positive traits too that have been disowned. As you reclaim your voice and integrate what has been relegated to shadow—both the darkness and the disowned light—you feel more connected to source, to the ground of being.

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"There is only one journey. Going inside yourself." — Rainer Maria Rilke

The journey inward takes many forms. Sometimes we arrive there slowly, through years of meditation or therapy. Sometimes we are thrust there suddenly—through ceremony, medicine, breathwork, or spontaneous spiritual opening.

Altered states of consciousness—whether induced by psychedelics, meditation, breathwork, or ecstatic experience—can reveal truths about yourself and the nature of reality that ordinary awareness cannot access. They can dissolve the boundaries of self, offer visions of beauty or terror.

The journey doesn't end when the experience does. Without proper preparation and integration we might be left feeling isolated, destabilized afterward, or unable to translate the experience into lasting change. But tended to properly these journeys can be profoundly healing and transformative.

Preparation & Container

If you are preparing for a psychedelic journey—whether in a therapeutic, ceremonial, or personal context—the work we do beforehand matters deeply.

We clarify your intentions: What are you seeking? What questions are you bringing? What do you hope to discover—or what are you afraid of encountering? We also attend to your psychological readiness: Are there unresolved traumas that need tending first? What support structures do you have in place? How grounded are you in your body and in your life?

Preparation is about creating a strong enough container to hold whatever arises—going in with clear eyes, with respect for the process, and with awareness that these medicines are catalysts that amplify what is already present, not magic bullets.

Integration & Embodiment

The real work often begins after the experience. You may return feeling expanded yet raw, confused or overwhelmed. Or with visions and insights that feel profound but elusive and already fading. Altered states take us beyond the ordinary—but we must return.

Integration is as much about grounding as transcendence. It is the process of bringing those insights into lived reality—allowing the experience to shift you not just in the moment, but in the days, weeks, and months that follow. We explore what you encountered: What moved you, frightened you, broke you open? What powerful truths were revealed? What were the key insights and how to translate these into lasting change? 

A Note on My Role

I do not provide or facilitate psychedelic substances. This is preparation and integration therapy only.

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