Therapist Pacific Palisades | Trauma Therapy

I offer somatic therapy and body-centered healing support in Pacific Palisades, CA for adults who are thoughtful, sensitive, creative, and often used to staying strong through grief, illness, trauma, or transition. You may feel connected to nature, family, community, or meaningful work, while still sensing that your body is carrying tension, fatigue, or emotion that has not had enough space. My role is to offer a steady, relational space where you can slow down and practice being with yourself in a more embodied way.

I have served clients throughout the Westside of Los Angeles for years, including those connected to the coastal neighborhoods, canyon roads, village life, family communities, and natural landscapes of Pacific Palisades. This area holds a unique mix of beauty, privacy, achievement, and proximity to the ocean and mountains. Many people here value wellness and spaciousness, yet still find that external space does not automatically create internal ease.

In Pacific Palisades, the challenge is often feeling pressure to hold things together quietly, especially during grief, chronic illness, relational change, or identity shifts. You may be longing for support that does not rush you or ask you to turn healing into another performance. I offer body-centered care that respects your timing, listens to what has been held, and helps you reconnect with presence in a grounded and sustainable way.

A season of grief, chronic illness, trauma, relational change, or transition may have you trying to stay strong while something inside feels tired, braced, or far away. You may have access to beauty, nature, or support around you, but still feel disconnected from your body inside.

The contrast between what surrounds you and what you feel internally can be painful. The ocean, canyon roads, quiet homes, or family routines may offer moments of relief, but they may not reach the deeper places where grief, fear, anger, or exhaustion are still held.

In somatic psychotherapy, we may explore sensation, emotion, pacing, memory, movement, and the ways your system has adapted through loss, stress, or change. This work makes room for the parts of you that beauty alone cannot soothe and helps your body feel less alone with what it has carried.

A season of grief, chronic illness, trauma, relational change, or transition may have left you feeling disconnected from your body, even when beauty and quiet are close by. You may sense that walking, nature, or movement helps, but does not always reach the deeper places where something is still held.

Movement can become a way to meet what words cannot organize yet. You may begin to feel more grounded, more able to notice your limits, and more connected to the emotions or impulses that have been paused by survival, loss, or responsibility.

Through movement therapy, we may explore sensation, rhythm, breath, grounding, stillness, memory, and the body’s own timing. Canyon roads, coastal space, school and family life, private grief, and the quiet pressure to stay strong can all shape what the body carries. This work gives those places room to move.

Beauty and spaciousness can offer relief, but they do not always reach the places where trauma is stored. Even with nature, family structure, or quiet around you, your body may still feel braced, tired, or disconnected inside.

There may be grief, fear, anger, or exhaustion that has not had enough room to move because staying strong became necessary. Trauma therapy can help your system feel less alone with what it has been carrying.

We may explore sensation, memory, emotion, pacing, movement, and the body’s protective wisdom. Canyon roads, coastal space, school life, and private grief can all shape what needs to be met with steadiness rather than force.

Beauty and quiet may offer comfort, but they do not always reach the memories your body still holds. Loss, trauma, illness, or relational rupture may remain active beneath strength and composure.

Processing what has stayed charged can help your body feel less trapped in old responses. You may begin to experience more groundedness, softness, and choice.

With EMDR therapy, we may explore sensation, memory, emotion, and the beliefs that formed around painful moments. Canyon roads, coastal space, school life, and private grief can all shape what needs room to be met.

Grief, trauma, illness, or depression may still feel close even when nature, family, or quiet surroundings offer some comfort. Your body may need deeper support for what beauty alone cannot soothe.

Ketamine therapy can create space for perspective, emotional movement, and contact with parts of the self that have felt distant. Integration helps those moments become steadier and more useful in daily life.

We may explore intention, sensation, imagery, grief, memory, and what your system needs afterward. Canyon roads, coastal space, school life, and private loss can all shape what is ready to be met.

Even with quiet, beauty, and structure around you, OCD can make the inside feel loud. You may replay, check, avoid, research, or seek reassurance around health, safety, relationships, morality, or whether you have done enough.

This work can help you build a more sustainable relationship with uncertainty. The goal is not perfect calm, but more freedom to live without letting fear set every rule.

Through OCD therapy, we may explore intrusive thoughts, compulsions, avoidance, shame, and body sensations. Canyon roads, coastal space, school life, and private worry can all shape the places where anxiety asks for certainty.

Nature and quiet can support the body, but they do not erase the grief, fear, or disruption of chronic illness. You may be surrounded by beauty and still feel far from the body you once knew.

The work can help you stay connected to yourself through changing capacity. Relief may come through pacing, self-trust, and allowing grief to exist alongside moments of aliveness.

In chronic illness therapy, we may explore fatigue, pain, medical stress, loss, body trust, and the pressure to stay strong. Canyon roads, coastal space, school life, and private grief can shape what your body needs to feel less alone.

A controlling spiritual or religious past can remain in the body even after distance, education, or life changes. Fear, shame, grief, and the pressure to stay strong may still shape how safe it feels to choose for yourself.

The work can help you honor the complexity of leaving, questioning, or rebuilding. There may be love, loss, anger, relief, and confusion all at once.

In religious trauma therapy, we may explore belief, belonging, identity, consent, shame, grief, and nervous system responses. Canyon roads, coastal space, school life, and private family dynamics can all shape what freedom asks of the body.