About Somatic Azar Jinn

Hi, I’m Setareh Azar Jinn (she/her). I’m a Queer Iranian-American neurodivergent trans woman, a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (LMFT #104844) and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) (licensed/credentialed under my legal name, Nima Saalabi).

I offer Somatic Experiencing–informed psychotherapy for adults across California who are outwardly capable but privately exhausted—especially those navigating high-masking neurodivergence, trauma activation, burnout, and the chronic stress of living inside systems shaped by oppression.

My work is grounded in disability justice, healing justice, and QTBIPOC liberation. That means we do nervous-system work that is both clinically precise and socially contextual—without turning your identity, neurotype, body, or survival strategies into pathology.

What it’s like to work with me

I’m a relational, engaged therapist. Sessions are steady, warm, and practical—often slower than “talk therapy speed”—so your system can actually integrate change. We track sensation, emotion, impulses, boundaries, and meaning in real time. My style tends to be: tender, direct, collaborative, and very body-based.

Clients often come to me for support with:

  • Autistic/AuDHD burnout, shutdown, sensory overwhelm, and masking/unmasking

  • Trauma (developmental/relational/medical), dissociation, anxiety, panic, chronic bracing

  • Identity stress + liberation (queer/trans, diaspora, intergenerational grief)

  • Relationships beyond the script (poly/ENM, kink/BDSM, attachment, communication, repair)

A note on transparency + lineage

I don’t believe in a cold, one-way therapeutic hierarchy. I’m a therapist and a human: shaped by diaspora, devotion, creativity, and survival. Outside the therapy room, I’m rooted in embodied creative practice—dance, ritual, art, eros, and the liberation work of becoming more fully alive in a world that tries to flatten us. I come from the Iranian diaspora and have lived all over the Bay Area for over 3 decades. My work has been shaped by the realities many of us know intimately: migration and dislocation, chronic vigilance, cultural erasure, neurodiversity, gender & sexuality, family systems under pressure, and the longing to belong without disappearing. Over time, I found that healing required more than insight—it required a relationship to the body that could hold grief, anger, longing, identities, and joy without collapse. That’s part of what brings me to Somatic Experiencing and to a decolonial lens: healing that respects the nervous system and the world that shaped it.

Logistics

I offer in-person therapy in Sebastopol (Sonoma County) and teletherapy throughout California. My fee is $185/session. I am primarily private pay and currently credentialed only with Optum; I can provide a superbill for out-of-network reimbursement when applicable.

If you feel a quiet yes, you’re welcome to Book a free 15-minute consult so we can explore fit.