IT’S TIME TO MAKE A CHANGE.
MEET Stacy IN Walnut Creek, CA
About me:
I’m a psychotherapist, trauma specialist, and someone deeply devoted to helping people reconnect with themselves in ways that feel grounding, empowering, and genuinely alive. Alongside my clinical training, my work has also been profoundly shaped by years of learning from horses—masters of nervous system attunement—whose relational intelligence continually informs how I understand safety, trust, and healing.
For over a decade, I’ve supported individuals, including therapists, professionals, and high-capacity leaders, who appear capable on the outside yet carry stress, trauma, or nervous system overwhelm internally. Many of my clients are insightful, self-aware, and motivated… yet still find themselves stuck in patterns their thinking alone can’t change.
My approach is rooted in somatic psychotherapy and relational neuroscience, which means we go beyond talking about your experiences and work with how they live in your body and nervous system. Trauma, chronic stress, and relational wounds aren’t only psychological; they’re physiological. When we include the body in the healing process, shifts happen because your nervous system finally gets the conditions it needs to reorganize and settle.
My understanding of regulation and connection is rooted in relational neurobiology, a lens that extends beyond humans. Horses, in particular, are finely tuned to nervous system states and authenticity. They respond not to words or performance, but to what is congruent in the body. Learning from them has deepened my clinical lens: healing doesn’t happen through pressure or force, it happens through attunement, safety, and relationship.
My style is warm, collaborative, and deeply respectful of your pace. My role is to bring clinical expertise, nervous system literacy, and careful attunement so your system can rediscover its own capacity for balance, resilience, and connection.
Alongside my clinical work, I’ve trained extensively in Somatic Experiencing® and have spent years assisting in professional trainings, providing consultation, and supporting other therapists in developing somatic and trauma-informed skills. Teaching and mentoring clinicians is one of the ways I contribute to the larger field, because I believe deeply in raising the standard of care for trauma treatment.
At the heart of everything I do is this belief:
You are not broken. Your nervous system adapted intelligently to what you lived through. And with the right support, it can learn new patterns that allow you to feel more present, more connected, and more fully yourself.
In my free time, I compete in long-distance endurance riding with my amazing horse partner, Moubarak.
Our work
is to honor the resilience that already exists within and to identify what’s holding back from feeling fully alive.
The collaborative partnership between a therapist and a client creates a sacred space. As a therapist, I am entrusted with the most vulnerable, intimate process of one’s transformation. I hold this work with awe—fully aware of the immense courage it takes to reveal one’s authentic, unguarded self. I approach this process with profound respect.
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truth & courage aren’t always comfortable, but they’re never weakness.
Brene Brown
TRAUMA & COMPLEX TRAUMA
STUCKNESS & DYSREGULATION
THERAPIST SUPPORT
Workplace stress
My background
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I am a somatic and attachment-based therapist, focusing on the connection between the brain, body, and nervous system to promote overall health and well-being. Drawing from neuroscience, I understand how our experiences shape the brain and its development. As a somatic therapist, I help clients explore how their brain and body communicate, which supports emotional balance, regulation, and healing in areas where they feel stuck.
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Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology (2009)
License Marriage and Family Therapist (2013)
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EMDR: Level 1 & Level 2
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner
Somatic Experiencing training assistant and approved session provider
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Integral Somatic Psychology
Resilience and Regulation
Interpersonal Neurobiology