Hi and welcome!

I'm Natalia - a somatic therapist living in the hills outside Seattle. I love helping people connect with their deepest selves, settle their nervous systems, and experience life in new ways.

Since 2015, I’ve had the great privilege of supporting folks in reconnecting with their bodies and all the power and wisdom that lie within them. My own journey in embodiment and deep healing has been thanks to somatics, and I love that I get to stay connected to its truths and magic every day in the work I do.

I began my work in the world of embodiment in 2015 as a practitioner of Bowenwork - a type of nervous system-centered bodywork. Eventually, I found myself in 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, Peter Levine, Dan Siegel and countless others. I have trained in Hakomi Mindfulness Based Somatic Psychotherapy through the Hakomi Institute of California, and am currently training in Transforming Touch with Dr. Stephen Terrell. 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.

I’m also a member of Shelterwood Collective.

While I'm not formally trained in ecotherapy, I bring to my work years of experience of organic farming, living off-grid and other ways of moving toward closer relationship to the land.

​​I identify as queer and cis and am of Spanish, English, Irish and Chinese descent. When I'm not being a therapist, you can find me playing in forests and waters, tending food and medicine plants, making music, and laughing - a lot - with other humans.