Bay Area Somatic Therapy Center
Trauma-informed • Body-based • Community care
Individual somatic therapy
Individual somatic therapy offers a supportive space to explore patterns of stress, emotion, and meaning, at a pace that honors your nervous system. Our work is body-based, relational, and grounded in trauma theory, supporting growth, clarity, and greater ease in daily life.
We recognize that suffering is shaped by both personal experiences and broader systems, which can live in the body as tension, hypervigilance, shutdown, shame, or disconnection. Somatic therapy can help you process these experiences and reconnect with safety, agency, and belonging.
We serve adults in San Francisco and across California (via telehealth) and offer a sliding scale to support financial accessibility, with fees determined based on income.
Nervous system support
Support the body in gently shifting out of survival states and into greater steadiness and flexibility.
Mind-body integration
Build awareness of how thoughts, emotions, and sensations interact so insight can become embodied change.
Trauma-informed pacing
Move slowly and collaboratively, without re-living trauma or overwhelming the nervous system.
What somatic psychotherapy offers
Clinical integrity
All clinicians at Bay Area Somatic Therapy Center hold a master's or doctorate degree in somatic psychology from programs like the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and are trained in trauma‑informed, body‑based psychotherapy. This shared foundation supports consistency, depth, and integrity in our somatic approach.
In addition to providing therapy, our center serves as a training and professional development site for somatic psychology clinicians, helping strengthen ethical standards and access to somatic care in the Bay Area.
Who individual therapy may support
Stress, anxiety, and nervous system overwhelm
Relationship and attachment patterns
Burnout, life transitions, and identity exploration
Shame, self-criticism, and emotional reactivity
Complex trauma and CPTSD
Those seeking deeper self-awareness, integration, and embodied growth
What is somatic psychotherapy?
Somatic psychotherapy is a body-based approach to therapy that understands the mind and body as deeply interconnected. Rather than focusing only on thoughts or insight, somatic therapy works with sensation, emotion, movement, and nervous system responses as pathways for change, especially when healing from trauma, oppression, chronic stress, or relational wounds.
This approach supports you through a wide range of concerns, from managing stress and anxiety to navigating life transitions, deepening self-awareness, and building emotional resilience.
Somatic therapy is grounded in neuroscience, attachment theory, and body-based psychology. These frameworks recognize that experience shapes not only how we think, but how we feel, respond, and organize ourselves in the world.
Why somatic psychotherapy can be helpful
Somatic therapy can be helpful when patterns feel stuck at a level deeper than thought alone. By working with the nervous system and bodily experience, therapy can support regulation, flexibility, and integration, whether someone is healing from trauma or seeking greater balance and presence in their life.
Over time, this work can support reduced reactivity, increased emotional range, clearer boundaries, and a greater sense of connection to self, other, and the world.
When stress or trauma lives in the body
Stressful or overwhelming experiences, whether acute or ongoing, can shape how the nervous system responds long after the event has passed. This is especially true when experiences exceed our capacity to process them in the moment.
This can show up as chronic tension, numbness, hypervigilance, shutdown, emotional reactivity, or difficulty feeling safe in relationships. These patterns are not signs of something being "wrong," they are intelligent adaptations the body made to survive.