You’ve done the work.What’s next?
Where psychotherapy meets bodywork.
For women ready to go beyond insight.
Text SamanthaNELA / Pasadena · Tuesdays & Wednesdays
A different way in
When insight isn’t enough.
You may already understand why you are the way you are. Perhaps you've spent years in therapy, or read all the books, and developed a great deal of insight, and yet something hasn't changed.
Maybe your experience has been that talking and thinking alone aren't getting you where you want to go. You may find that your body reacts before your mind can catch up.
You become overwhelmed or shut down, lose yourself in relationships, struggle to know or express what you need, or find yourself repeating patterns you understand but can't seem to change.
Somatic psychotherapy & NeuroAffective Touch
The support I offer is for people who want therapy to go beyond understanding.
Somatic psychotherapy and NeuroAffective Touch invite us to move past mere curiosity about what is in our thoughts and emotions, and finally listen deeply to the wisdom held in our body. To feel directly the ways our systems organize around safety, connection and relationship.
Meet Samantha
Warm. Relational.
Collaborative.
I draw on 25 years of experience as a psychotherapist, but as my work is rooted in a feminist psychology lens, I am situated outside the typical Western, colonized, masculine / control-oriented therapy frame. I am witchy and spiritual, deeply nerdy, passionate about what I do. I love walking alongside women who are ready to meet and befriend their deepest parts, both the shadows and young parts, with dignity and no shame.
I am lead faculty in the NeuroAffective Touch Institute, I have training in Compassionate Inquiry, Reiki, Focusing/Felt-Sensing, Somatic Experiencing, various movement modalities, and many other approaches.
My style is warm, nurturing, deeply relational, and collaborative. Therapy with me isn't about getting rid of the parts of you that learned to survive, but understanding them so you naturally develop more response flexibility and self-compassion.
Working together
Let’s see if we’re a good fit.
Send me a text if you're interested, so we can see if we're a good fit: 818-203-1777
In person
Limited slots on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the NELA / Pasadena area. Preference given to clients who can commit to weekly sessions at a consistent time.
Session Pricing
- 50 min
- $250
- 90 min
- $400
I am an Out-of-Network provider under all behavioral health insurance plans, but I'll provide a Superbill if you can use that for insurance reimbursement.