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 support the processing of these experiences and reconnect with safety, agency, and belonging.
We serve adults in San Francisco and across California (via telehealth). The session fee is determined during the intake call. We hold a certain amount of sliding scale slots for those in need (lower socioeconomic status, disabilities, life threatening illness etc). We also offer affordable group therapy.
Nervous system support
Support the body in gently shifting through states and accessing 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
We move at a gentle pace. Therapy here is collaborative and relational.
What somatic psychotherapy offers
Clinical integrity
All clinicians at Bay Area Somatic Therapy Center hold a master's, doctorate, or extensive training in somatic psychology 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 is in the process of growing to serve 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
Racial trauma, cultural grief, and the body-level impacts of systemic oppression
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 also works with sensation, emotion, movement, and nervous system responses as pathways for change, especially when relating with trauma, oppression, chronic stress, or relational wounds.
This approach can support you through a wide range of concerns, from managing stress and anxiety to navigating life transitions, deepening self-awareness, and building emotional range and a deeper sense of wholeness.
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.
Honoring the wisdom of the body has lived in Indigenous, African, and diasporic traditions long before these frameworks had clinical names.
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 deep listening, 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.