Hi, I’m Shari. I’m a Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist (AMFT) in the state of California and Certified Somatic Coach, and I’m passionate about helping people discover healing that includes both the mind and the body.
Many of us learn to live mostly in our heads— navigating anxiety, depression, or trauma by analyzing, explaining, and pushing forward.
While insight is valuable, I’ve seen how true transformation happens when we also turn toward the body. The body remembers, but it also holds the keys to resilience, grounding, and renewal.
I hold a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Antioch University Los Angeles, and my clinical training includes somatic practices, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), mindfulness, and trauma-informed care.
Before becoming a therapist, I became certified in the Somatica Method as a Somatic Sexologist and spent years as a sex and relationship coach, which gave me a deep appreciation for how intimacy, attachment, and identity shape our inner world.
I’m also certified in Michaela Boehm’s Nonlinear Movement Method, a trauma-informed somatic modality, and certified as a dating and relationship coach for LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary folks through the Conscious Girlfriend Academy.
My approach is also deeply informed by my Buddhist practice, my background in dance, 5 Rhythms, and Authentic Movement, ancestral healing, tantra, queer and feminist theory, depth psychology, and liberation psychology.
Today, I integrate these experiences into my work as a therapist and somatic coach, offering a compassionate yet direct space where you can explore, heal, and grow.
In our sessions, you can expect curiosity, warmth, and collaboration. Sometimes we’ll slow down and notice the subtleties of breath or movement; other times we’ll use imagery, mindfulness, or dialogue to help you make meaning of what arises. Always, the pace is yours, and the process is about creating more safety, presence, and possibility in your life.
If you’re ready to explore a deeper connection with yourself and a more embodied way of living, I’d love to support you on that journey.
If this approach resonates with you, schedule a consultation to see how somatic, trauma-informed therapy or coaching might support you in feeling more grounded, present, and at ease in your life.
The work of relating starts with ourselves and the people we love, but our work is incomplete unless we expand our circles of relating outward and ask ourselves, how am I relating to my community? to those I disagree with? to the natural world? to my ancestors? An important step in situating ourselves in the web of life is knowing and acknowledging the first people of the place you live, and becoming familiar with their stories.
In this spirit, I acknowledge that my home in west Los Angeles occupies the unceded lands of the Chumash and Gabrielino/Tongva peoples, who stewarded this area for centuries before their genocide, enslavement, and displacement by colonial settlers. These tribes continue to protect this land and water, maintain vibrant traditions and culture, and contribute to society in significant but often unseen ways.