Anxiety & Stress
Somatic therapy for anxiety and stress in Oakland and online Across California
Slow down and heal overwhelm and self-doubt
by tuning into your body.
It is possible to find relief and feel better.
Overwhelm and anxiety don’t have to keep ruling your life.
As a caring and hard working person you have been able to get where you are today because you are committed and resilient. You are reliable and others know they count on your support. But somewhere along the way, you find yourself struggling and feel overextended.
You wake up(if you slept much) feeling anxious and dreading your long to-do list. Even though you accomplish a lot, keeping it together is overwhelming and there’s a hard voice inside questioning your worth and your capacities.
At the same time, you feel stuck, confused and unable to make changes you long for.
To others it seems you got everything under control. However, in your body it feels like stress hardly ever goes away.
I get it… Anxiety can be very confusing.
While the mind spirals, worried about things that happened in the past or what may happen in the future, the body is sending all sorts of alarm signals in the form of sensations.
When you feel anxious or stressed you might notice body sensations like:
nervousness
tension
racing heart
aches
pains
sleep troubles
Stop going and going. Slowly find yourself in the here & now.
Reconnecting to your body experience in Somatic Therapy can help begin to heal from the impact of anxiety and chronic stress.
The things is that anxiety’s job is to respond to fear and move us away from danger. It is the nervous system’s alert signal.
The society we live in creates conditions that benefit from taking us away from the present moment. Overwhelm and self-doubt are not personal shortcomings, they are in part a result of trauma and oppression.
In our sessions we will…
Tune In
Slow down and listen
Disrupting society’s push to move fast and fix, we slow down, listen to the body and practice returning to the present moment.
Within the body we learn what practices support you in developing more capacity to manage stress, restore a sense of safety and balance.
befriend
Anxiety the messenger
Anxiety is a nervous system response trying to protect us. We will work to develop curiosity when it shows up in your life.
We will carefully untangle how past painful experiences or trauma may be connected to how you feel today and offer the care it’s needed.
liberate
Move towards what matters
Big or small, movement liberates us. Whether it’s taking centered action toward something you care about or noticing in stillness how your chest expands as you breathe, you can practice channeling anxiety into healing movement.
Together we can figure it out!
+ Be more present and less anxious
+ Find freedom from overthinking and overdoing
+ Feel emotions without overwhelm
+ Heal from trauma
+ Reconnect to your body
+ Have more self-compassion
+ Cultivate courage to follow your heart’s desires
+ Tap into joy and creativity
If you are yearning to:
Let’s chat!
Why heal from Anxiety?
Because when we have more capacity to feel,
we have more capacity to create the life and world we want.
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Our bodies have the amazing capacities needed to help us engage with challenging mental, physical and emotional experiences. Through our nervous system stress response we are able to do this. The nervous system becomes activated to help us engage with life situations and then enters a period of recovery to help us rest and integrate what we went through. Through this cycle we learn and grow. Unfortunately the culture and society we live in makes it very difficult for us to move through this natural cycle and sends us into a state of chronic stress, where we regularly can’t complete the cycle and restore. Getting stuck in this activated state of our nervous systems, is what we might call anxiety.
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I like to think that more than a having a beginning and end, healing is practice and as a process is not linear. Everyone’s healing process is different. I can accompany you at some of the intersections of your healing path and help you find ease from what aches you at this time of your process.
Having said this, the possibility to feel more present, more ease, is possible once we create the space to slow down and listen to the body.
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This makes so much sense. Anxiety is felt in the body. In fact anxiety is both about what’s happening in the body and in the mind. Part of our work is to engage in somatic practices that help slow down how anxiety activates the body and support restoring balance and ease. We don’t have to feel everything at once. We can take the time it’s needed.
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I’m glad you are ready to connect. The next step is to schedule a phone consultation for me to hear what kind of support you are looking and discuss working together. Head to my contact page and send me a message. I’ll get back to you to schedule a phone consultation.