Please see my website to learn more about my approach, the clients I see, and my background.
Practicing body-centered therapy means that instead of only talking through issues and concerns in a therapy session, we will also use practices to assist you in feeling what responses your body is having to the topic brought up in session. Somatic, mindfulness, movement, and breathing practices are all forms of body-centered therapy.
Body-centered and somatic therapy can be most helpful for people who:
-Are very cerebral or “in their head”, and find thinking and/or talking does not lead to the desired change or healing.
-Identify as being touchy, triggered or reactive at any point and have a desire to understand why this emotional response arises.
-Experienced childhood trauma, or other traumas, where memories are fuzzy or absent.
-Do not want to explain or describe the issue, memory or concern, but still seek healing or closure.
-Find movement, meditation, art or physical activities assist them in gaining groundedness, clarity or peace of mind.
I have more than a decade of experience working with people from communities who have been subject to oppression in all forms. As someone from mixed Iranian and European descent living on unceded Indigenous lands, my life perspective is shaped by growing up in a family who has experienced migration, forced displacement and the layered dynamics of living in diaspora. I am dedicated to supporting people in healing from all kinds of struggles, and the scars they leave. Whether folks are in immediate need, seeking guidance, or tending to old wounds, we will work to cultivate the change you seek.
