About Counseling
Somatic counseling in-person in Longmont and virtually across CO.
Where body, culture, and history all shape the work.
YOUR BODY
Healing doesn’t start in your head. It starts in your body.
DOES THIS FEEL FAMILIAR?
Your shoulders are still bracing for something that already happened.
Your words stay calm, but your body tells a different story.
You flinch, hold your breath, or want to bolt before you know why.
You know how to keep going, but never learned how to arrive.
Your mind may often move on, but your body remembers, until you stop and listen. Movement, sensation, and breath help you get past the old stories you've told yourself about who you “should” be. What's on the other side is feeling more at home in your own mind, heart, and body.
In session, that might mean tuning into your body as we talk: your tension, breath, or even a small urge for movement. We might pause on a sensation as it comes up, to notice where it really wants to take us. I've done a lot of this work in my own body, too; it's part of why I trust it.
Your body never went quiet. It's just waiting for you to listen again.
YOUR CULTURES
Your cultures don't just shape how you think. They shape how you move through the world.
Your body quietly bears the costs of spanning multiple cultures, until you notice. Recognizing that weight, instead of carrying it alone, is often where things start to shift. I have a particular affinity for working with BIPOC, immigrant, and diaspora folks, especially those of Asian descent.
In session, that might mean catching the flicker of static in your body before you've picked which version of yourself to show. We might slow down right there, and get curious about which version feels safest, and why. I grew up straddling two cultures myself, too; whatever you're holding onto, you don't have to hold it alone.
This might feel familiar
You've always been the bridge for others. No one's ever been a bridge for you.
Somewhere in your success lives your parents' unlived life.
“Good” meant small and silent. You're done being either.
You feel lost somewhere between who you are with family and who you are with everyone else.
You’re not stuck between worlds. You’re fluent in more than one.
YOUR HEALTH
A diagnosis doesn't erase a future. Your body can hold both.
Living with a health or medical challenge changes your relationship with your own body; sometimes it starts to feel like something happening to you, rather than something you inhabit.
In session, that might mean noticing where grief for your old body still lives, even as we work with your current embodied experience. We might give that grief room to move through your body: through breath, sound, or creative expression. I'm navigating my own health challenges alongside everything else life asks of me, too; the work is meeting who you are now.
This might feel familiar
You're holding a diagnosis in one hand and the rest of your life in the other.
Your body feels unpredictable, and that's its own kind of stress.
Resilience wasn't a choice. It was just what was left.
You've had to fight to be believed about your own body, in rooms where you should have been heard first.
There’s still a future here, even if it looks different than you planned.
You may see yourself in one or more of these threads: body, culture, and health. Or in concerns like anxiety, depression, trauma, or relationship and family conflict.
Either way, we'll explore through collaboration. I'll bring structure, skill, and steady presence; you'll bring the wisdom you already carry.
Interested? Curious? Please reach out.
Set up a free 15-20 minute phone or virtual consultation to see if this feels like the right fit. Sessions take place in Longmont or virtual anywhere in Colorado.