Therapist Beverly Hills | Body-Centered Therapy
I offer somatic therapy and body-centered healing support in Beverly Hills, CA for adults who may be externally composed, successful, or private while internally navigating grief, chronic illness, trauma, creative disconnection, or emotional overwhelm. You may be used to holding yourself carefully, managing how much others see, and continuing to function even when your body feels tense or far away. My role is to offer a confidential, grounded space where you do not have to be polished, resolved, or high-functioning to belong.
I have served clients across the Westside and greater Los Angeles for years, including people connected to Beverly Hills’ residential neighborhoods, creative industries, wellness communities, medical spaces, service environments, and nearby areas like Century City, West Hollywood, and Westwood. Beverly Hills is often associated with image, excellence, privacy, and achievement, but behind that surface are real human lives shaped by pressure, sensitivity, change, grief, and the need for honest connection.
In Beverly Hills, the challenge is that appearing composed can make it harder to name what is tight, tired, or unresolved inside. You may be ready for support that does not flatten your complexity or push you toward surface-level calm. I offer body-centered care that helps you listen inward, loosen the grip of self-control, and practice feeling more present in your own life.
Here’s What’s Included
Step 1: Slowing Down and Building Awareness
We begin by creating space to notice what is happening in your body, thoughts, and emotional life. Together we explore patterns of tension, sensation, and response, helping you understand how your nervous system has learned to organize itself over time.
Step 2: Developing a Relationship with Your Inner Experience
Rather than trying to fix or override what you feel, we build curiosity and capacity with what arises in the moment. This may include somatic awareness, relational dialogue, EMDR when appropriate, or gentle movement and creative exploration.
Step 3: Supporting Integration Over Time
As awareness grows, many people begin to notice meaningful shifts, more room to breathe, more flexibility in how they respond to stress, and a deeper sense of trust in their own bodies.
Explore my therapy services and specializations
You may be externally composed, private, or high-functioning, while internally carrying grief, chronic illness, trauma, emotional overwhelm, or the fatigue of staying carefully in control. You may be used to managing how much others see while your body holds tension, vigilance, or exhaustion beneath the surface.
You may have learned to move through the world with polish, restraint, and privacy, even when something inside you feels tender, chaotic, or unresolved. Holding yourself so carefully can protect you, but it can also make it hard to know what you actually feel, need, or want.
Through somatic psychotherapy, we may explore sensation, emotion, pacing, movement, memory, and the protective patterns that helped you function. In a culture shaped by Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, privacy, image, beauty, and composure, this work offers a place where you do not have to arrive polished.
You may move through the world with polish, privacy, and control, while your body carries grief, chronic illness, trauma, exhaustion, or emotions that rarely have space to be visible. Holding yourself carefully can become so familiar that ease begins to feel unfamiliar.
Movement can help reveal what has been contained beneath composure, not to expose you, but to let the body have a more honest relationship with what it has carried. You may begin to feel more access to breath, desire, limits, tenderness, and choice.
Through movement therapy, we may explore sensation, gesture, pacing, emotion, stillness, memory, and the protective patterns that helped you function. In a culture shaped by Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, privacy, image, beauty, and composure, this work offers a place where your body does not have to arrive polished.
Privacy, polish, and control can protect what feels too vulnerable to show. You may move through the world looking composed while trauma remains beneath the surface as vigilance, exhaustion, emotional overwhelm, or a body that never fully relaxes.
Being carefully held together can be adaptive, but it can also make it difficult to know what you feel, need, or want. Trauma therapy can create a safer relationship with what has been hidden, managed, or carried quietly.
We may explore sensation, emotion, memory, pacing, and the protective patterns that helped you function. In a culture shaped by Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, privacy, image, and composure, this work offers space where you do not have to arrive resolved.
Pain can stay hidden beneath privacy, polish, and control. You may move through life appearing composed while certain memories still leave your body tense, vigilant, or emotionally overwhelmed.
There can be relief in letting what has been managed become more fully witnessed and processed. The goal is not exposure, but more choice and less internal charge.
Through EMDR therapy, we may explore memory, sensation, emotion, and protective beliefs that helped you function. Around Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, image, beauty, and composure, this offers space where you do not have to arrive resolved.
When privacy and composure become second nature, depression, trauma, grief, or emotional pain may stay hidden for a long time. You may function well while feeling internally distant, heavy, or carefully controlled.
Ketamine therapy can support openings in places that have felt closed, but the work is not about losing control. It is about meeting what emerges with care, pacing, and enough containment to integrate it.
We may explore intention, sensation, imagery, emotion, memory, and meaning. Around Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, privacy, image, and composure, this offers space where your inner life does not have to arrive polished.
OCD can remain hidden beneath privacy, polish, and high functioning. You may look composed while your mind is caught in checking, reviewing, reassurance seeking, or trying to prevent the wrong thing from happening.
There can be relief in no longer managing the loop alone. The work can support more flexibility, less shame, and a life guided less by fear and more by what actually matters to you.
Through OCD therapy, we may explore intrusive thoughts, rituals, uncertainty, avoidance, and the pressure to stay in control. Around Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, privacy, and image, this offers space where the mind does not have to appear perfectly settled.
Chronic illness can be difficult to carry in a culture that often values polish, vitality, and composure. You may look fine while privately managing symptoms, fatigue, appointments, grief, or fear.
The work can offer relief from having to perform wellness. More honesty, more boundaries, and more trust in your body’s timing may become possible.
In chronic illness therapy, we may explore medical stress, body trust, pain, fatigue, identity shifts, and the protective patterns that help you function. Around Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, privacy, and image, this offers space where your body does not have to appear effortless.
Religious trauma can remain hidden beneath privacy, success, and composure. You may appear fully separate from the past while still carrying shame, fear, control, or the feeling that your choices are being judged.
There can be relief in having a space where your story does not have to be polished or simplified. The work can help you reclaim agency without rushing forgiveness, certainty, or a new spiritual identity.
In religious trauma therapy, we may explore authority, shame, grief, anger, body trust, desire, and the protective patterns that helped you function. Around Wilshire appointments, Rodeo Drive polish, image, beauty, and privacy, this offers space where your truth does not have to arrive composed.
I serve clients in Beverly Hills and nearby areas
Testimonials
“Danielle is a wonderfully intuitive practitioner who knows how to listen and empathize at a very deep level. She also has a deep, spiritual presence and understanding that can only be attained through real life experiences - In other words she gets it. She really helped me gain clarity on my goals and feel more grounded. I’d recommend her to anyone looking for a blend of intellect and intuition.”
Client
"What I valued most about working with Danielle was her genuine curiosity. She made a real effort to understand me rather than fit me into a framework, which helped me build more self-compassion and trust in myself. I always felt like a partner in the process, never a patient being managed. I'm so grateful I found her."
Client
“The space Danielle creates could only come from someone who has done deep excavation work and returned with the medicine of her soul. She is exquisitely embodied, attuned, and holds a torch for others to safely inhabit their bodies and express themselves – no matter where they are on their journey. No matter where I am inside of myself when I enter her classes, I leave feeling more connected to myself and my own expression.”
Student
Hello, I’m Danielle Wiggins, a somatic therapist serving Beverly Hills
I am the founder of Space Takes Practice, a somatic psychotherapy and embodied practice created for people who are tired of holding themselves together so carefully. This work began from my own understanding that the body carries what polish, privacy, and self-control can hide. Through somatic psychotherapy, movement, EMDR, KAP, and trauma-informed care, I support adults navigating trauma, grief, chronic illness, OCD, religious trauma, and emotional overwhelm with a grounded space where the body and inner life do not have to arrive composed.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get started?
The first step is scheduling a consultation. This gives us a chance to briefly connect, discuss what you're looking for, and see whether the work feels like a good fit.
What happens in a somatic psychotherapy session?
Sessions include conversation as well as attention to the body’s sensations, emotions, and nervous system responses. Together we explore patterns of tension, bracing, emotion, and expression in a way that supports awareness and integration over time.
Do you offer virtual sessions, in-person sessions, or both?
Sessions are offered virtually and in person in Santa Monica. We can discuss what format works best for you during the consultation.
Do you accept insurance?
Space Takes Practice is an out-of-network practice. Payment is due at the time of service, and a superbill can be provided for potential reimbursement through your insurance provider.
Do you offer sliding scale options?
A limited number of sliding scale spots are available. If cost is a concern, you're welcome to ask about availability during your consultation.
What if I need to cancel or reschedule?
Please provide at least 48 hours' notice for cancellations or rescheduling. Sessions cancelled with less notice will be charged the full session fee.
What are extended sessions or therapy intensives?
Extended sessions allow us to work together for a longer period of time (90 minutes to several hours). These can be especially supportive for EMDR work or when exploring experiences that benefit from additional space and depth.
How often do people usually meet for therapy?
Most people begin with weekly sessions. The consistency of meeting regularly creates a kind of practice — a rhythm that supports awareness, integration, and nervous system change over time.
As the work evolves, we can always adjust the pace of sessions.
How is somatic therapy different from traditional talk therapy?
Somatic psychotherapy includes the body as part of the therapeutic process. Rather than working only with thoughts and stories, we also pay attention to sensation, nervous system patterns, and the ways the body holds experience. This can allow insight to become something you actually feel and live, not just something you understand.
How do I know if this work is right for me?
Many people who find their way to this work are thoughtful and self-aware but feel something in their experience hasn’t fully shifted despite years of insight or reflection. If you’re curious about working with the body, nervous system, and emotional life — not just thoughts alone — this approach may resonate with you. A consultation is a good way for us to explore whether it feels like a supportive fit.
Do I need to have a specific problem to start therapy?
Not necessarily. Some people come to therapy during a specific challenge such as grief, trauma, illness, or major life transitions. Others come because they feel stuck, disconnected, or curious about understanding themselves more deeply. Therapy can be a space for exploration, integration, and growth — not only crisis.
What if I’ve already been in therapy before?
Many of the people I work with have already spent years in therapy or personal growth work. They often understand their patterns intellectually but still feel tension, overwhelm, or disconnection in their bodies. Somatic psychotherapy offers a way to include the body and nervous system in the process, allowing insight to gradually become something that is lived and felt.
Good Faith Estimate
You have the right to receive a “Good Faith Estimate” explaining how much your medical and mental health care will cost.
Under the law, health care providers need to give patients who don’t have insurance or who are not using insurance an estimate of the expected charges for medical services, including psychotherapy services.
You have the right to receive a Good Faith Estimate for the total expected cost of any non-emergency healthcare services, including psychotherapy services. You can ask your health care provider, and any other provider you choose, for a Good Faith Estimate before you schedule a service.
If you receive a bill that is at least $400 more than your Good Faith Estimate, you can dispute the bill. Make sure to save a copy or picture of your Good Faith Estimate.
For questions or more information about your right to a Good Faith Estimate, visit www.cms.gov/nosurprises or call (800) 985-3059.
