Somatic EMDR & Relational Psychotherapy · Los Angeles
You notice everything. It's time someone noticed you.
Insightful somatic therapy for adults and couples who crave emotional clarity and connection. Reconnect with your feelings, your body, and the people who matter, without giving up the thoughtful, independent nature that makes you who you are.
In person in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles · Virtual across California
Does This Sound Familiar?
Feeling disconnected from yourself or your relationships?
You might be the type of person who has always been the observer in your family. The quiet one. The responsible one. The one who notices everything but often feels unseen.
Thoughtful and introspective, you tend to analyze situations and manage emotions internally, which can make it hard to stay connected to your own feelings and needs. That subtle disconnection can leave you frustrated, lonely, or unsure how to relate authentically.
Therapy can help you reconnect, while honoring the reflective, independent nature that got you this far.
- Shutting down or pulling awaywhen emotions run high, even with the people you love most
- Struggling to express what mattersasking for your needs feels risky, so you keep them to yourself
- Feeling cut off from your bodyemotions register as tension or numbness instead of signals you can read
- Carrying quiet self-doubtlow self-worth that follows you into relationships, however capable you look outside
Services
Therapy for individuals and couples who want deeper connection
Sessions are 50 minutes, weekly, in person at the Eagle Rock office or virtual anywhere in California.
Individual Therapy
$225 per session · Sliding scale spots based on availability
For adults who grew up feeling emotionally overlooked or misunderstood, and now find themselves shutting down during conflict, pulling away from intimacy, or struggling to ask for what they need.
- Explore the patterns behind quiet depression, low self-worth, and self-doubt
- Learn to notice and express your feelings safely
- Build self-trust, confidence, and the emotional connection you've been missing
Couples Therapy
$250 per session · Sliding scale spots based on availability
For partners struggling with communication breakdowns, emotional distance, or recurring conflicts, who want to feel closer, be better understood, and restore trust.
- Understand the attachment patterns and emotional needs keeping you stuck
- Work with Emotionally Focused Therapy, psychodynamic insight, and somatic awareness
- Strengthen communication, rebuild trust, and deepen intimacy
Somatic EMDR Therapy
$225 per session · Sliding scale spots based on availability
An integrative approach that combines EMDR with somatic therapy to help your brain and nervous system process experiences that insight alone hasn't changed.
- Support for trauma, PTSD, anxiety, panic, chronic stress, hypervigilance, burnout, and emotional overwhelm
- Body awareness and nervous system regulation alongside bilateral stimulation and memory reprocessing
- An individualized eight-phase process that can be focused treatment or part of ongoing psychotherapy
Insurance is not accepted directly, but a Superbill can be provided for potential out-of-network reimbursement.
How Therapy Helps
A relational, psychodynamic, and somatic approach
Healing happens not only through insight, but in the body, by learning how to feel, regulate, and stay present with yourself in moments of distress. Together we work in three movements.
01
Notice
Slow down and notice where you've disconnected from your feelings, in your history, your relationships, and your body's own signals.
02
Express
Practice expressing your needs and emotions safely, in a space with no judgment and no pressure, until authenticity stops feeling like a risk.
03
Connect
Build trust, closeness, and more satisfying relationships, with greater steadiness in yourself and deeper connection to the people you love.
About Erika
I've always been someone who notices patterns
How people relate. How emotions move through the body. How early experiences shape the way we connect. Growing up, I often felt like an observer and something of a black sheep in my own family, which sparked a lifelong curiosity about relationships, belonging, and what helps people feel truly understood.
Before becoming a therapist, I spent a decade as a massage therapist and craniosacral therapist, where I learned firsthand that healing happens in the body, not just through insight. That mind-body thread runs through everything I do today.
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT #126341
- Certified Somatic EMDR Practitioner through The Embody Lab
- M.A. in Clinical Psychology, Antioch University, with training in trauma-informed and depth-oriented psychology
- B.A. in Biological Psychology, New College of Florida, researching the mind-body connection and psychoneuroimmunology
- A decade of somatic bodywork practice as a massage and craniosacral therapist
Questions people ask before starting
Get Started
Ready to prioritize yourself or your relationship?
The first step is a free consultation call. We'll talk about what you're needing, what working together could look like, and whether it feels like the right fit. No pressure, no commitment.
If you can't find a time that works, email or call and we'll coordinate directly.