Soma Sessions: 1:1 Somatic Therapy

Come home to your body.

Welcome

Your body already knows something’s off. It’s been trying to tell you for a while now.

I’m Marisa, and I’m grateful you landed here. My heartfelt offering to those who choose to work with me is rooted in the belief that healing doesn’t happen alone, and is built in a well-supported container. Throughout my sessions, I prioritize mutual respect, healthy boundaries, empowerment, agency, and connection so that you can show up as you are and receive the most out of our time together. My goal is to have you leave each session feeling a bit more at home within yourself. I operate from a systems-oriented approach, acknowledging that your family, culture, community, history, and lineages have shaped who you are.

This work moves the way water moves: around what’s in the way, patient, wearing the hard edges smooth over time, never forcing a straight line through.

And healing won’t move in a straight line, however much you want it to. Some stretches will feel like real ground covered. Others will feel like you’ve landed back at the start. I’m not chasing a finish line with you, I’m walking the actual path, wherever it winds.

You’re not broken, or missing anything. What’s already in you, the resilience, the wisdom, the capacity to come back to yourself, hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s just been waiting for the room to feel safe enough to come back out.

How I can support you

Together, we map the internal world: the forgotten rooms that got sealed off, the dark caves still waiting for a lantern, integrating the shadow parts so you can live into your brightest self and your soul-calling.

• Coming back into a body that’s felt unsafe for years

• Anxiety that’s become your resting state

• Carrying everyone else’s needs until you lose track of your own

• Running out of patience with the people you love most, faster than you want to

• Grief that never got a place to land

• Pleasure, rest, and appetite you don’t have to earn first

• Finding your voice in rooms that taught you to be smaller

• Trauma and C-PTSD your body remembers, even when your mind has moved on

• Feeling like a stranger to your partner, your kids, or your own reflection

• Feeling alive again the moment your feet hit the floor in the morning

  My approach

  Strengths-oriented. You already have what you need, capacities that never left, just went quiet in the dark for a while. My job isn’t to fix what’s broken in you, it’s to find what’s already there and help it find light again. Throughout our work together, we’ll draw on the strengths, wisdom, and resilience you already carry, building trust in what your body already knows and in your own ability to meet whatever comes.

  Systems-oriented. Your anxiety didn’t come from nowhere. It’s shaped by the systems you move through, family, culture, history, the map someone else drew for you before you ever got the chance to draw your own. You are not the problem. You’re responding to real conditions.

  Process-oriented. Healing is not linear. Some weeks you’ll feel more embodied than you have in years. Some weeks you’ll feel like you’re back in the dark part of the cave. Both are part of it. There’s an alchemy in the surrender, in finally letting the work move at its own pace instead of forcing it to move at yours. Coming alive, one step at a time.

  Work with me

  Soma Sessions

  A Soma Session is a journey into your internal world: mapping the forgotten rooms, the dark caves that got sealed off because it wasn’t safe to stay in them. We go in together. We bring a lantern into what’s been closed off, clear out what’s been sitting there too long, and make room for the light to come back in. What’s been desecrated in you doesn’t have to stay that way. It can be found again, and made sacred once more. That’s the alchemy: finally walking into the rooms you’ve spent years avoiding.

  “There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places”~ Wendell Berry

  I weave together somatic body-focused practices, IFS, table-work, and sound healing to meet you where you are each session. This isn’t talk therapy. I won’t ask you to retell your trauma to get there. We work with the parts of you that shut off, through trauma or neglect, so they can come back online without you having to relive what happened. Too many people leave talk therapy, even EMDR, more activated than when they walked in. This is built to work through the body and its parts, not through re-traumatization.

  Hybrid: in person on the Big Island or virtual.

  $220 per 50-minute session, booked as you need it.

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  Wild Body: A 12-Week Immersion

  For when you’re dedicated to making a big shift in your way of being, ready for more than a single session, ready for a whole season of coming home to your body. Twelve weeks, one-on-one, with support held between our sessions too.

  Learn more about Wild Body →

  However this finds you today, single session or full season, you don’t have to have it figured out first. Just come as you are.