Somatic Therapy for Minority Stress

Somatic Therapy for Identity Stress (California Teletherapy + Sebastopol in person)
Somatic therapy for identity stress and minority stress—when your nervous system is shaped by vigilance, misattunement, and the cost of being readable to others. This work holds queer/trans, diaspora, intergenerational harm, and oppression-related stress with dignity—without pathologizing you. I offer a decolonial, disability-justice–rooted space for queer/trans and diasporic clients to unlearn bracing and come home to themselves. Minority stress isn’t “in your head.” It lives in the body: vigilance, bracing, shutdown, anger, grief, and the constant internal calculus of safety. Therapy can be a place to metabolize what you’ve had to carry and reclaim what’s yours.

Private pay ($200) • Optum in-network only • Superbills available • Email: Liberation@somatictherapynorthbay.com

Signs you are being impacted by minority stress

  • chronic vigilance, people-pleasing, or masking for safety

  • shame, grief, anger, or exhaustion tied to identity stress

  • family/cultural rupture, intergenerational pain, diaspora dislocation

  • dysphoria-related stress or social safety stress (without pathologizing you)

  • difficulty resting, receiving, or trusting support

How we work
We do nervous-system work with context: power, culture, survival, and meaning. My practice is rooted in healing justice + disability justice with a commitment to QTBIPOC liberation—held with clinical rigor and warmth, not slogans. You get to bring your whole self.

Next Steps

What tends to change

  • less bracing; more grounded agency

  • clearer boundaries without collapse

  • more capacity for intimacy, pleasure, and self-trust

  • grief and anger held in ways that metabolize rather than harden

  • a deeper sense of “I belong in my body”

Logistics

In-person in Sebastopol (Sonoma County) + teletherapy throughout California. Fee $200/session. Primarily private pay; credentialed only with Optum. Superbills available.

Book a free 15 minute consult