Therapist Palms | Somatic Psychotherapy

I offer somatic therapy and body-centered healing support in Palms, CA for adults who are reflective, creative, high-functioning, and often carrying more than others can see. You may be moving through grief, chronic illness, trauma, transition, burnout, or a sense that your body is tense, distant, or hard to trust. My role is to offer a steady therapeutic space where you can slow down, listen inward, and begin practicing a more embodied way of being with yourself.

I have served clients throughout the Westside for years, including many who live in Palms and move between Culver City, Mar Vista, Westwood, and the larger creative and professional landscape of Los Angeles. Palms is practical, diverse, and constantly in motion, filled with apartments, commuters, students, entertainment professionals, and people building lives in the middle of a busy city. It is a neighborhood where people often learn to adapt quickly, keep going, and hold themselves together.

In Palms, many clients come to this work when they realize that staying functional is not the same as feeling alive. You may know how to explain what happened, but your body may still feel braced or overwhelmed. I offer support that helps you move slowly, respect your limits, and build a relationship with your body that is based on trust rather than control.

Maybe you are capable, reflective, and used to keeping life moving, but your body feels tense, tired, or far away. You may be carrying grief, chronic illness, trauma, burnout, or the sense that understanding yourself has not fully changed how you feel day to day.

You may be doing what needs to be done, getting through work, relationships, errands, and creative responsibilities, while privately feeling like your system has very little room left. The pressure to adapt can become so familiar that you only notice it when your body finally refuses to keep pushing.

Somatic psychotherapy offers a way to explore what your body has been holding beneath the overthinking, bracing, and constant adjustment. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, creative ambition, and practical pressure can make it hard to slow down, which is why learning to listen to your limits can become so important.

Maybe your body has become something you manage rather than inhabit. You may be getting through work, errands, relationships, commuting, and creative responsibilities, while feeling tense, disconnected, fatigued, or unsure how to actually feel present in yourself.

Movement can become a way back into contact, not because you need to push harder, but because your body may need safer ways to feel, respond, and release what has been held. Over time, you may notice more ease with your limits, more trust in your signals, and less pressure to override discomfort.

In movement therapy, we may explore breath, posture, sensation, rhythm, stillness, and the impulses that have been paused or hidden. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, creative ambition, and the practical pressure to keep going can make it easy to leave the body behind. This work gives it room to speak again.

Keeping life moving can become its own survival strategy. Work, errands, rent, relationships, commuting, and creative responsibilities may continue on the outside while your body feels tense, distant, or close to capacity inside.

You may have learned to adapt quickly, minimize what you need, or push past signals because stopping felt too risky. Trauma therapy can support a different relationship with those patterns, one where your body is not treated as an obstacle, but as a place where important information lives.

We may explore sensation, memory, emotion, boundaries, fatigue, and the pressure to keep adjusting. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, creative ambition, and practical stress can make it easy to override yourself, so this work helps you listen before your body has to get louder.

Daily life may continue on the outside while certain memories, fears, or body responses keep interrupting your sense of steadiness. You may understand the past and still feel pulled into it.

The shift can feel practical and emotional at once. Less bracing, less replaying, more capacity to notice what is happening without being overtaken by it.

In EMDR therapy, we may explore the places where memory and body response remain connected. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, creative ambition, and practical pressure can make it especially important to have more internal room.

If life has become something to get through, your body may feel tired from holding everything together. Depression, burnout, trauma, chronic illness, or grief can make even familiar routines feel distant or effortful.

Sometimes healing asks for a different kind of opening. This work can help you notice what wants to move, what has been protected, and what needs care after years of adaptation.

Ketamine therapy may include exploration of emotion, body awareness, imagery, meaning, and integration. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, creative ambition, and practical pressure can make it hard to pause, so the work helps create room for what has been waiting underneath.

When life already requires constant adaptation, OCD can make ordinary decisions feel loaded. You may replay conversations, monitor your body, check details, research symptoms, or try to prevent something from going wrong.

There can be relief in no longer treating certainty as the only path to safety. The work can support more flexibility, more trust in yourself, and less time organized around mental rituals.

Through OCD therapy, we may explore intrusive thoughts, compulsions, anxiety, avoidance, and the body’s response to doubt. Expo Line commutes, apartment life, creative pressure, and daily logistics can make it important to have room outside the loop.

When rent, work, errands, relationships, and commuting keep moving, illness can feel like an interruption you are not allowed to have. You may keep adapting while your body asks for a slower rhythm.

There can be relief in having a space where fatigue, pain, grief, frustration, and fear do not have to be minimized. The work can support more sustainable choices and less self-blame.

Through chronic illness therapy, we may explore pacing, body trust, symptoms, medical stress, and the identity shifts illness can bring. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, and practical pressure make it important to honor capacity before burnout takes over.

A former religious or high-control environment may still shape how you make decisions, relate to desire, trust your body, or fear disappointing others. You may be building a life that looks free while still feeling watched inside.

There can be relief in naming the control without minimizing the belonging, meaning, or loss involved. The work can help you move toward self-trust without forcing certainty. 

Through religious trauma therapy, we may explore shame, fear, grief, anger, identity, sexuality, consent, and nervous system responses. Expo Line commutes, apartment living, and practical independence can make the question of who you are now feel especially present.