Natalia Oncina
MA, LMHCA
How I Work
relational
I am not a robot! Our time together is centered in real human connection.
resource-based
somatic
I help people access embodied experiences of safety, ground and wholeness as platforms for daily life and self-exploration.
I provide tools to help my clients increase their experiences of well-being.
systems-oriented
I work with the knowing that the social and familial systems you navigate influence your experience.
non-violent
I strive to collaborate with you to ensure the work we do feels safe and right and is rooted in consent.
Through warmth, care and curiosity, I help clients reconnect to their centers, inner compasses, and senses of inherent wholeness.​
I offer a nourishing space to hold the big everything that is going on in folks' beings and bodies, as well as to tend to wounds that are old, those that are new, and/or those that are currently being opened. As we tend to whatever needs tending, I help facilitate an embodied rediscovery of a sense of ground, ease, and inherent goodness that can be practiced and returned to, even in the face of stress and difficulty.
So What's Somatic Therapy, Anyways?
Somatics is a broad field that recognizes the inseparable connection between our bodies, minds and emotions. The somatic work I do focuses on helping folks experience life in new ways by supporting different physiological responses to stress. When we create more capacity in our nervous systems, we also grow our ability to discover our deepest selves, to choose how we act and relate, and to feel the full breadth and depth of life.
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What does that look like in a session? Sometimes folks just need a caring human to be there to hold their feelings with them. (Yep, that's somatic too!) Sessions also often include embodied regulation techniques and/or deep trauma processing in ways that look more physical, such as through movement, breath, or other tools. What each session looks like is based on each client's needs in any moment.
Who I Work With
My clients' common thread is that they are looking to deepen their connection with themselves and experience life in a new way. Folks come for that general support, or are seeking help for specific themes like:
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- Stress, anxiety, panic, depression
- Trauma (including intergenerational, complex, acute,
oppression-based, sexual, physical, spiritual, etc.)
- Grief
- Struggles in relationship/s
- Life transitions
- Deep attachment work
- Queer issues
- Shame and low self-esteem
- Painful experiences of systemic/societal issues
- Desire for deeper connection to body
- The sense that something just doesn't quite feel right
A Note on Healing
There is no "right way to be" in therapy and you can never "do it wrong." Your body's innate wisdom will take you everywhere you need to go on your journey, and I will be there to guide and hold your experience with you.
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I believe all life is always moving toward healing. The cut on your hand scabs over and grows new skin; the maple tree cut at its base sprouts new shoots. Our hearts also know what to do...
Acknowledgements
​ I honor the tremendous pains and traumas - both physical and invisible, both present and past - that are a result of systems that do not center the health, happiness and sovereignty of all the beings of this Earth.
Somatics as a contemporary "field" is comprised of many practices that indigenous peoples the world over have always practiced, which have been used and profited on (in this field and others) without consent. I am on a personal journey learning how to address this in my work and life.
I live and work on territory traditionally stewarded by and stolen from Duwamish, sdukÊ·albixÊ· (Snoqualmie), Nisqually, Squaxin and Cowlitz nations. To learn more about Native land and find out whose you're on, click here.