Spirituality
Integrating spirituality and Buddhist practices with modern somatic psychotherapy
Serving clients virtually in California & Washington, and in-person in San Rafael
Integrating Spirituality with Therapy
Many people experience their struggles not only emotionally or psychologically, but spiritually as well. Questions of meaning, purpose, identity, belonging, and connection often emerge during times of crisis, transition, trauma recovery, grief, chronic illness, psychedelic experiences, or periods of profound personal change.
My approach offers space to explore these experiences through both a psychological and spiritual lens. Drawing from years of Buddhist practice, meditation, mindfulness, somatic therapy, transpersonal psychology, and contemplative traditions, I work with clients from many different spiritual backgrounds — as well as those who do not identify as spiritual at all. Rather than imposing a particular belief system, I aim to meet each person where they are and support their own unique relationship to meaning, healing, and inner experience.
Clients often seek this work when they feel spiritually disconnected, emotionally stuck, lost in transition, or longing for a deeper sense of authenticity, wholeness, and connection in their lives.
Healing Through Spirituality & Self-Discovery
My approach integrates Somatic Mindfulness therapy, trauma-informed care, relational therapy, and contemplative spiritual practice. Sessions may include mindfulness, nervous system regulation, parts work, compassionate inquiry, cultivating self-compassion and compassion for others, connecting with intuition, exploring the authentic self, and deepening relationship to spirit, inner wisdom, or higher consciousness. For some clients, this may also include working with ancestral themes, intergenerational healing, or experiences of spiritual guidance and interconnectedness.
Rather than bypassing painful emotions in the name of spirituality, this work honors emotional wounds, attachment patterns, and trauma responses as meaningful parts of the healing process. Spirituality becomes not an escape from our humanity, but a way of relating to ourselves and others with greater presence, compassion, awareness, and connection.
Clients across Marin County, San Rafael, the East Bay, and Berkeley often seek this type of support when navigating spiritual awakening, psychedelic experiences, life transitions, grief, existential questions, or the longing to reconnect with a deeper sense of meaning, authenticity, and belonging.
Support for Spiritual Awakening, Crisis, and Integration
Periods of spiritual change can feel both illuminating and deeply destabilizing. Experiences such as spiritual awakening, existential questioning, psychedelic journeys, meditation retreats, grief, chronic illness, or sudden shifts in identity may open profound insight while also bringing confusion, overwhelm, fear, or disconnection.
In our work together, I help clients slow down and make sense of these experiences in a grounded, embodied way. Rather than pathologizing spiritual experiences or bypassing emotional pain, we explore how these experiences relate to your nervous system, personal history, relationships, identity, and deeper longing for meaning and connection.
This approach can be especially supportive for individuals integrating psychedelic experiences or non-ordinary states of consciousness. Drawing from my background in contemplative practice, somatic mindfulness, trauma therapy, and transpersonal psychology, I help clients integrate these experiences into everyday life in ways that feel meaningful, compassionate, and sustainable.
Trauma-Informed Spiritual Counseling
In my experience, spiritual exploration often touches unresolved emotional wounds, attachment patterns, and survival strategies held within the nervous system. Experiences that may initially feel spiritual in nature can also bring forward grief, trauma, fear, shame, relational pain, or parts of ourselves that have long been hidden or disconnected.
Because of this, I approach spiritual therapy through both a psychological and contemplative lens. My work integrates trauma-informed modalities including EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Brainspotting, Hakomi, somatic mindfulness, attachment-focused therapy, and mindfulness-based practices. Rather than separating spirituality from emotional healing, I see them as deeply interconnected.
Together, we explore how to stay grounded and connected while moving through periods of transformation, awakening, or deep inner inquiry. The goal is not to transcend our humanity, but to relate to ourselves with greater compassion, awareness, embodiment, and authenticity.
Spiritual Therapy for Meaning, Identity, and Life Transitions
At different points in life, many people begin questioning old ways of understanding themselves, their relationships, spirituality, or the direction their life is taking. These periods of transition can arise through grief, burnout, trauma recovery, relationship changes, illness, psychedelic experiences, meditation practice, midlife shifts, or a growing sense that the life you’ve built no longer fully aligns with who you are becoming.
In my work, I help clients slow down enough to listen more deeply to what is emerging beneath the surface. Rather than offering rigid answers or spiritual ideology, I support people in reconnecting with their own intuition, authentic self, inner wisdom, and deeper sense of meaning. This process often involves untangling conditioning, survival patterns, attachment wounds, and identities that no longer feel true.
Clients often seek me out when they feel emotionally stuck yet know something deeper is asking to change. Together, we explore how to navigate transformation in a way that feels grounded, embodied, relational, and connected to everyday life — not separate from it.
Over time, many clients experience a stronger sense of authenticity, greater self-compassion, deeper spiritual connection, and a more rooted relationship with themselves and others.
Ready to Dive In ?
I offer a free 20-minute consultation to learn more about my approach and services, and see if its a good fit.