Somatic Therapy Seattle
I bring a deep sensitivity to my work. I have spent a lifetime transforming my own suffering. I now seek to offer support to individuals who are ready to explore their own cultural, generational suffering, and trauma within a nurturing and healing space.
My fascination with the nervous system has led me to focus my practice on mental health and trauma. I combine hands-on therapies and bodywork with somatic counseling practices to facilitate the body's natural ability to heal itself. I have a keen interest in working with clients with anxiety, CPTSD, treatment resistent depression, and psychedelic therapy integration. Outside of one-on-one sessions, my craft is creating safe group containers for authentic expression and nervous system regulation within community. Facilitating wellness retreats and breathwork circles have offered the best opportunities for me to provide service to my community in this way.
I have also spent a lifetime working with and communicating with ecosystems and watersheds to heal and regenerate them from harmful practices, subsequently supporting organic farming practices within healthy ecosystems. With a background in Environmental Science and Ecopsychology, I understand the importance of the connection between humans and the natural environment. I have been able to reinforce healing practices and experience in Indigenous ways upon the environment and within communities, and am in ongoing training with Indigenous leadership skill-building.
My many years of experience and training in somatic movement education and therapy, massage therapy, and hypnotherapy, have also been a part of my deep transformational healing path. I am presently being credentialed as an Hakomi Therapist. Hakomi is a refined method of psychotherapy that includes the non-verbal somatic expression of the body.
I warmly welcome all communities of color and diversity. Inclusivity is key in all walks of life, which can create safe spaces for all to embark on their healing journey. If you are ready to embrace transformation and healing, I am here to support you on your path.
"Rowan helps her clients access their own body-based inner wisdom so that they can find answers that are right for them and their life. Approaching difficulties with curiosity and self-compassion allows us to transform and heal, and to connect to new resources"
Certified Hakomi Practitioner
Licensed Medical Massage Therapist for 40 years
Washington State Counseling Hypnotherapy License
Somatic Movement Practitioner - 5 year training -
International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association (ISMETA)
Internal Family Systems - Level 1 completion
BA/BS Environmental Science & Education with and emphasis in watershed regeneration and sustainable land use management.
Minor in Ecopsychology: The study of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment through both ecological and psychological principles.
Permaculture Design, Community Supported Agricultural practices, Food Desert Community Foodship design.
2 + years with “IndigenEyze” - A women’s + LGBTQIA leadership training in British Columbia First Nations network which is an ongoing training that teaches how to speak to decolonizing, oppression, generational trauma, individual trauma, for communities and families, through traditional methods of learning and through current practices in learning how to speak to colonizing mindsets, world view, and how oppression operates in the day to day within communities of color and greater communities.
Traditional knowledge & Indigenous healing practices with Elders in ceremony and sweat lodge, fasting camp, longhouse Indigenous sacred teachings. Plant Medicines - harvesting/gathering/preparations/uses.
