Somatic Therapy for Autistic Burnout, Trauma, & Nervous System Healing

Weekly psychotherapy with Setareh in Sebastopol & throughout California

You have spent a long time adapting.

Perhaps you appear capable, dependable, and successful while privately living with chronic bracing, hypervigilance, shutdown, dissociation, burnout, or exhaustion. Perhaps you've learned to mask, to over-function, or to carry more than your body was ever meant to hold.

Many of my clients have spent years trying to understand themselves. Insight has helped, but their nervous systems still organize around survival.

Therapy can become a place where survival no longer has to be your body's default.

My practice offers weekly, depth-oriented somatic psychotherapy for queer, trans, BIPOC, poly/ENM, kink/BDSM, and high-masking autistic/AuDHD adults who are seeking lasting change within an embodied, relational, and decolonial framework.

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You may recognize yourself here...

This practice may be a good fit if:

You appear functional on the outside while your nervous system rarely feels at rest.
You experience dissociation, chronic bracing, trauma activation, shutdown, or burnout.
You have done therapy before but still feel like your body is carrying survival patterns that insight alone hasn't changed.
You spend significant energy masking, adapting, or anticipating other people's needs.
You want therapy that understands autism, ADHD, queerness, transness, race, culture, polyamory, or kink as lived realities rather than problems to be explained away.
You are looking for long-term, weekly therapy that allows change to unfold gradually over time.

My Approach

I don't believe trauma exists outside of context.

Our nervous systems adapt not only to our families and relationships, but also to the larger conditions in which we live. Colonization, racism, ableism, transphobia, capitalism, medical trauma, and other forms of systemic oppression shape the ways our bodies learn to survive.

Healing is not about becoming someone different.

It is about helping your nervous system discover that survival no longer has to organize every moment of your life.

My work integrates Somatic Experiencing®, attachment theory, existential-phenomenological psychotherapy, and liberation-oriented practice.

Together we work carefully with sensation, emotion, boundaries, survival responses, attachment, and meaning-making. I place particular emphasis on differentiating trauma physiology from autism, ADHD, OCD, chronic pain, and identity-based stress so treatment supports who you are rather than pathologizing it.

What Therapy Can Become

Over time, therapy may become a place where:

your body begins to feel safer inhabiting itself
chronic vigilance softens
masking becomes less necessary
boundaries become more embodied and less effortful
relationships become less organized around survival
rest feels more possible
curiosity, grief, joy, and pleasure have more room to emerge

Healing rarely happens all at once.

It develops through hundreds of small moments in which your nervous system discovers that something different is now possible.

Why Weekly Therapy

Weekly therapy is the foundation of my practice.

Each client has a consistent appointment reserved exclusively for them. This regularity creates the conditions for nervous system change to build gradually over time. Rather than beginning again each session, we continue an ongoing therapeutic conversation that deepens week by week.

My practice is designed for people seeking steady, long-term work rather than intermittent support.

Practical Information

My practice may be a good fit if you are looking for:

Weekly therapy at a consistent appointment time
Long-term depth-oriented psychotherapy
Somatic trauma therapy within a decolonial framework
In-person therapy in Sebastopol or teletherapy anywhere in California

My practice is usually not the best fit if you are looking for:

Biweekly or drop-in appointments
Variable scheduling
Brief or solution-focused therapy
In-network insurance other than Optum
Crisis support between sessions
A higher level of care than weekly outpatient psychotherapy

About Me

I'm Setareh Azar Jinn, LMFT, SEP (Somatic Experiencing Practitioner).

I specialize in helping adults whose nervous systems have adapted to chronic stress, trauma, and systemic oppression.

My work is relational, clinically precise, and deeply respectful of the wisdom carried by the body. Rather than asking, "What's wrong with you?" I ask, "How has your nervous system learned to survive, and what might become possible if we can honor that and learn new ways of being in the world"

Logistics

📍 In-person in Sebastopol, Sonoma County, across from The Barlow

💻 Teletherapy throughout California

💲 $200 per 50-minute session

🩺 In-network with Optum. Superbills available for possible out-of-network reimbursement.