Awaken the Joy of Being
Somatic therapy to deepen awareness and expand your capacity to respond with greater flexibility, choice, and connection.
In-person in Sonoma County. Virtual throughout California.
When you know you want something to change
Sometimes it's clear - you recognize the pattern, understand where it comes from, and still find yourself doing what you've always done.
Other times, it's harder to name. You may feel exhausted from pushing through, saying yes when you mean no, shutting down, reacting in ways you later regret, or finding yourself in the same places again and again.
Why understanding isn't always enough
From the very beginning of life (and even before birth) our developing nervous systems are influenced by the relationships, environments, and conditions that surround us, as well as by biological and intergenerational factors we are only beginning to understand.
In response, we develop ways of adapting that help us survive, stay connected, and navigate the world around us.
Those adaptations are remarkably intelligent yet the very patterns that protect us can also come at a cost - they may help us feel safe or stay connected while narrowing the choices available to us.
Understanding why those adaptations developed is an important part of the process, but it's just the beginning.
Awareness Creates the Possibility of Choice
Awareness is more than simply noticing what's happening - it's being present with our experience while also observing it with curiosity: our thoughts and emotions, the impulses that arise, and what we're sensing in the body.
As we become more able to stay with what we're experiencing, rather than immediately reacting to it or pushing it away, there can be a little more space between what we notice and what we do next. And sometimes, that is enough for another response to become possible.
My lens in this work is somatic and informed by neuroscience. What we think and understand matters, and so does what may not be accessible through thought alone.
Depending on what you need, I draw from Somatic Therapy, Brainspotting, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, mindfulness, CBT, Energy Psychology, and other approaches that allow us to respond to you as a whole person.
Regulate
Develop the capacity to meet life's challenges with greater steadiness, flexibility, and resilience. Rather than getting caught in one state or way of responding, we become better able to move with what the moment calls for.
•Regulate • Reconnect • Reclaim • Awaken
Reconnect
Deepen your connection with yourself, your body, and your inner experience. As you become aware of what you're feeling, sensing, needing, and wanting, you can meet your experience with greater curiosity and compassion rather than automatically judging or overriding it.
Reclaim
As you come to know aspects of yourself that may have been silenced, set aside, or given little room to develop, you become more able to hold the complexity of who you are with compassion, allowing a greater sense of wholeness and internal coherence to emerge.
Awaken
When less of your energy is taken up by familiar patterns of protection, more becomes available for life itself - for connection, creativity, pleasure, meaning, and joy.
Meet Dr. Loi
•Somatic Psychologist • Educator • Brainspotting Practitioner • •Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Provider • Community Leader•
The relationship we create together matters as much as the approach itself - both are built on curiosity, collaboration, and deep respect for the many ways each of us has learned to adapt.
For more than two decades, I've had the privilege of working alongside thoughtful, motivated individuals and couples as they navigate anxiety, anger, trauma, relationship challenges, and life's inevitable transitions.
Whether we're working together in therapy, a deep-dive intensive, or a group program, you'll find a space where you can slow down, listen differently, and begin responding to yourself - and your life - with greater self-trust and intention
Work with Dr. Loi
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