About me

I support clients through issues ranging from anxiety and depression to trauma and grief with the use of somatic and mindfulness-based approaches.

Prior to my career as a somatic practitioner, I worked for over twenty-five years as a university professor of writing and literature.

I continue to encourage people to draw from their own essential wisdom and creativity. I help clients to discover and explore their inherent gifts through dream, archetype, and myth, as well as various creative and ritual-based practices.

Ultimately, I guide clients to connect with and nurture their innate healing capacity.

I have extensive familiarity and expertise with integrating psychedelic experiences.

I am trained in Hakomi and am currently completing the Somatic Experiencing® Professional Training Program. I am a transformational coach and a licensed hypnotherapist in the state of Washington.

My services

Somatic Coaching

Hakomi is a relational form of experiential psychotherapy that uses mindfulness and body-based techniques to help people heal attachment wounds and developmental trauma. It is based on principles such as non-violence and mind-body holism. Learn more about Hakomi here.

Somatic Experiencing is also a body-based method that works to resolve trauma by emphasizing the body’s natural healing mechanisms. Some of its benefits include addressing stored physical tension and promoting deep relaxation through nervous system regulation. Learn more about Somatic Experiencing here.

Somatic Hypnotherapy blends hypnosis with body-based awareness to access and release subconscious patterns stored in the nervous system. Hypnotherapy works by guiding individuals into a deeply relaxed state where the subconscious mind becomes more receptive to positive change. Somatic hypnotherapy takes this further by integrating physical sensations and embodied experiences, allowing unresolved emotions and traumas to surface and be processed. This method heals through rewiring the mind-body connection and promotes lasting change by addressing root causes rather than just symptoms.

Psychedelic Integration

Integrating expanded states of consciousness—whether from psychedelics and entheogenic plant medicines or other modalities like breath work, ecstatic dance, or chant—can help make sense of such transformational experiences. Developing ongoing integration practices can deepen and amplify the healing benefits of psychedelic experiences. Learn more here.

Areas of Expertise

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    Psychedelic Integration

    Spirituality

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    Anxiety

    Depression

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    Chronic Illness

    Chronic Pain

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    Trauma

    Grief

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    LGBTQ+

    Transgender

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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

~ Rumi

Frequently asked questions

  • I split my time between Seattle, Washington and Yucca Valley, California (on the border of Joshua Tree in the Greater Los Angeles area). However, I am available to meet online and work with many clients this way.

  • Yes, meetings via Zoom can be arranged. In fact, many of my clients work with me this way.

  • I offer a free 20-minute consultation to see if we are a good match.

    Hour-long sessions are $150.

    I also offer sliding scale rates based on financial need; please inquire for more info.

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The body will always tell the story of our wounds in a language so direct and simple that it can be too much to bear witness to. As protection, the mind pulls away and keeps itself isolated from the body. The most radical project we could ever engage in during our lives is the project of embodiment. This is the most radical act because there is no liberation without the union of mind and body.

~ Lama Rod Owens