Natalia Oncina
MA, LMHCA
About Me
Hi! I'm Natalia. :)
I've gotten to help folks settle their nervous systems since 2015 - thanks to my own healing journey. Life experiences led me from the explicitly physical work of organic farming and landscaping to the implicitly physical world of deep internal healing. It was magic to me to discover that not only is healing possible, it is an intrinsic part of being alive. I think it's the cat's meow that I get to stay close to that magic. Whether being with my clients' crushing pain or sparkling joy, I feel blessed every day I get to be part of their healing journeys.
My formal embodiment training and work started in yoga and a kind of nervous system-centered bodywork called Bowenwork. Eventually, I found myself at the Somatic Psychology program at California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where I graduated in 2020. Among those who I've had the privilege of being directly taught by are Linda Thai, Deb Dana, Amber Elizabeth Gray, Shirley Bar-Dvir, Angela Porter and Dr. Nick Walker. I am deeply influenced by the work of Prentis Hemphill, Resmaa Menakem, Kathy Kain, Peter Levine, Dan Siegel and countless others. I'm grateful for the tremendous knowledge gathered by all my teachers (including their lineages of teachers), as well as the other labor of many flavors they have engaged in to spread it.
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While I'm not formally trained as an ecotherapist, I bring years of experience of living off-grid and other ways of moving toward closer relationship to the land to my work.
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When I'm not being a therapist, you can find me tending food and medicine plants, making sounds, and playing in forests and waters.
