SOMATIC EXPERIENCING SESSIONS
Healing With The Body
Break free from survival mode to feel more ease and peace in your life with the wisdom of your body.
Online in SF & Throughout CA
Trauma and Stress Recovery Through The Wisdom of Your Body
Stress and trauma leaves us feeling disconnected from our bodies. You’ve done the self-work, but still find yourself feeling constantly overwhelmed, feeling exhausted and shutdown by the end of the day, and feeling like there’s no way out. You’re maybe feeling something is wrong with you.
But you’re ready to make a change. You want to understand what’s happening in your nervous system so you can regulate it. You’re ready to feel confident to move through challenges quicker. Most of all, you’re ready to heal with your body and feel like yourself again.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Stress, shock, and trauma shows up in the nervous system and it’s dysregulation impacts your life. Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a gentle, body-oriented therapeutic model, that supports completion of self-protective responses and help with release of thwarated survival energy in the body.
By doing so, it address symptoms of trauma. This approach guides the client to slowly to develop an increase tolerance for difficult sensations and suppressed emotions, and works with completing the defensive responses that were once stuck, thus brining resolution to the nervous system.
Benefits of Somatic Therapy:
Reduction of anxiousness: Experience relief from overwhelming feelings of fear.
Improved Emotional Regulation: Gain better control over your emotions and reactions.
Enhanced Positive Self-Perception: Increase your sense of self-worth and positive beliefs about yourself.
Relief from loss and grief: Reduce the intensity of grief and increase peace.
Improved perception of past trauma: Decrease of overwhelming emotions of the past event.
Discover the gentle healing of Somatic Experiencing and increase your resiliency.
What can Somatic Experience help with?
Stress & Burnout
Chronic tension, overwhelm, shutdown
Trauma
Loss & Grief
Painful childhood experiences
Performance anxiety
Overthinking, perfectionism, self-criticism, guilt, shame.
and much more.
How does Somatic Experiencing work?
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is unlike other type of therapy, in that it follows your unique nervous system pattern, it’s slow, and involves moments of quietness to allow the body to integrate. Each session is different.
Here’s what you can expect:
In the first session together, we discuss your prior experience with therapy, adverse life events (without going too deep), your current support system, and coping skills.
SE foundation is learning and applying the practices to develop more safety in your body. Lots of time is spent here. There’s lots of noticing, moments of silence.
After spending some time with learning and building capacity for increase safety in the body, we begin to get curious about challenging moments you would like to process. We engage with different channels in our physiology for the reprocessing. There’s a lot of pausing and noticing, and shifting to your resources, to build capacity. Here, the focus is on how your body speaks to you, on what it’s ready to release and integrate.
Lastly, we work towards integrating your new emotions, thoughts, and memories. This may look like quiet resting.
What do people say after trying Somatic Experiencing?
They have increased confidence to overcome stressors and challenges
Feeling neutral or little disturbance of the trauma
Have new insights
Increased self-compassion and empowerment
More ease, calmness, groundedness, and peace.
Increased strength and resiliency
Hi, I’m Albania.
As a licensed marriage and family therapist and trauma trained Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), with over a decade experience in the mental health field, I’ve helped people take healing in their own hands. Becoming their own inner-healer, they find balance and reclaim their lives. I am dedicated to helping individuals like you to reconnect with your sense of safety inside your body, feel more balanced, and authenticity amidst the pressure’s of daily life and society.
The journey:
Receive a 60 minute intake assessment: get clear on your goals, receive professional recommendations, get a plan, and answer your questions.
50 minute sessions, after the intake session.
Actionable Feedback: Honest and constructive feedback to improve your skills
Somatic tools that work for your unique nervous system capacity, regulation, and cultural needs.
Price: $220 (each session)
Currently not taking insurance. Private pay only.
What’s Included?
For the full benefit, it’s recommended to have weekly sessions or bi-weekly, if you need more integration time.
This is slow, sacred process. No fixing here.
The more you go along in the journey, you’ll learn the framework and understand how to incorporate the methods that I blend.
faqs
Common questions asked
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Somatic Experiencing is a personalized approach that focuses on your unique nervous system. I use Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal tools to help you understand and regulate your nervous system. For longer-term clients, I incorporate Internal Family Systems to help identify and transform the parts of you that keep you stuck in survival mode, fostering self-compassion and confidence.
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Yes, you can do Somatic Experiencing online. Many people like to be in their home where they feel safe and supportive to engage in SE sessions.
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During the intake assessment, we get clarity on what you want to process, your current coping skills, and support systems.
However, if you are looking for a faster treatment, than it may not be a good fit for you yet, and it’s best to use other modalities.
You can take your time to prepare your mind and body in the future to engage SE work.
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Somatic Experiencing is safe when administered by a trained provider. Like many therapy modalities, SE may lead to emotional distress, re-traumatization or dissociation episodes. It’s important to let you provider know to tailor your treatment plan.
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You can apply first, and will contact you within 24-48 hours during Monday through Thursday.
We schedule your free 15 minute consultation. It’s important that you feel comfortable with me, so that you get the most of Somatic Experiencing. If we are not a good fit, I will provide you with referrals to other trained providers.
If we are a good fit, the first session will be an intake.
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No. I am only accepting private pay, but I can give you a Superbill. A superbill, is an invoice that you can submit to your insurance for partial or full reimbursement. You need to verify with your insurance to see if they do reimburse you.
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I do, but those slots are taken. I recommend finding another provider that is available and provides sliding scale.
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Each person is unique in their history, traumas, stressors, and nervous system capacity. It’s hard to exactly know when. However, healing stress and trauma is a lifestyle change, to see lasting results.
With consistent weekly sessions and applying tools in their daily life, past clients began seeing changes from 3 to 6 months, and others more than a year.
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There’s a 48 hour cancellation policy from the start time of the scheduled appointment. The session is charged if the session is cancelled less than 48 hours.
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I will block the available time slot we both agree on.
Weekly sessions are available at this time.
Each session is $220 for 50 minutes.
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I use a secure platform called, IvyPay. After setting up the first intake session, I will send you a link via text, where you can safely put in your card information.
The session will be charged prior to meeting. If payment fails, you will be notified once. If payment continues to fail, I will need to cancel until payment is made.
Most major credit cards are accepted, including HSA.
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No.
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No. I only provide virtual sessions through Google Video.
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No, I only specialize in adults 30 + years of age, primarily women, and BIPOC women.
Although, anyone can reach out if you resonate with my work.
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For somatic psychotherapy, I am licensed in the state of California. This requires more clinical processing.
If you are interested in just nervous system work through Somatic Experiencing, please still reach out. It wouldn’t be therapy, it would be coaching using Somatic Experiencing.
3 Simple Steps to Stress Relief & Trauma Healing
Experience a transformative journey towards balance and calm.
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Book Your Free Consultation
Fill out our form to apply for a free 15 minute consultation to learn more how we can support your healing.
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Purchase Restorative Sessions
Engage in tailored sessions for nervous system healing.
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