
Harness the Innate Wisdom of Your Physiology
Promote Resiliency
Bounce back from life’s ups and downs with healthy nervous system regulation. Your overall wellness will improve as both parasympathetic (rest & digest) and sympathetic (mobilization) functioning improve, allowing for greater calm and increased energy for work and play.
Build Relational Depth
Deepen connections with others while strengthening your sense of self. Ventral Vagal—the branch of the vagus nerve that lets you sense safety and connection—can be strengthened over time, allowing you to expand community and simultaneously increase your sense of belonging.
Increase Capacity
Handle life’s challenges while staying calm, grounded, and present. Work from a place of capacity rather than override, allowing you to take on more over time while reducing accumulated stress and overwhelm.
Hi, I’m Noah!
My personal journey drew me to this work, and it’s hard to express the impact it has had on my life. It has strengthened my sense of vitality, expanded my emotional capacity, and deepened my connection to purpose. After this powerful experience, I’ve become passionate about sharing this gift with others.
With graduate degrees in cinematic arts and clinical psychology, I utilize my unique background to maximize client growth while keeping the work engaging and fun. Our sessions will unfold through improvised exploration, collaborative intervention, and spontaneous emergence of flow. We are unraveling stuck patterns and revealing your aliveness underneath, all while honoring your inherent capacity. This will reduce the risks of both stagnancy and overwhelm.
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Clients are innately whole and intuitively moving toward growth. I am merely a guide with the tools, insight, and experience necessary to assist. I typically work with clients who are further along in their personal work, so it’s not a coincidence that most of my clients come from the healing professions. We are fellow travelers on this path, and I am honored to support those of you who relentlessly pursue your own healing.
I also know the importance of having my own process as I support others. I keep my caseload low to ensure I can sustainably serve clients over time, and today I still find this work deeply fulfilling on so many levels. When I’m not in session, I enjoy standup paddling in the ocean, hiking in nature, and traveling to faraway places.
A Little Note About my Training:
I draw from a comprehensive training background in trauma, attachment, and somatic modalities including Brainspotting, Dynamic Attachment Repatterning, PACT, and Somatic Experiencing. Each year I attend new trainings and revisit others I’ve long since completed in a support role. You can see the full list here.
This represents a significant investment of resources in improving client outcomes, so I am currently unable to offer sliding scale.
Testimonials
“Noah clearly embodies this work. His presence offers confidence, attunement, and safety.”
Paulina Padilla, LCSW, SEP
“Noah’s warm, open disposition allows clients to feel instantly comfortable in his presence. His dedication, attunement, and ability to track a client's process makes for highly effective and refined somatic healing sessions.”
Keara Mangham, Bodyworker, Holistic Coach, SEP
“Noah is a highly skilled practitioner. He cares deeply for the people he works with and is committed to the art of healing.”
Steve Friedlander, MA, LMFT, CATC IV
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“Noah has a profound capacity to hold space with compassion and solidarity no matter what comes up. His knowledge base is multidisciplinary and expansive, and I’ve seen firsthand how transformative it is to sit with him. Sessions with Noah feel greatly safe, sturdy, and heart expanding. I highly recommend him for anyone on a true healing journey.”
Tony Chavira, MA, LMFT
“I’ve had the privilege of working professionally with Noah, and I can confidently say he is an exceptional clinician. With an extensive knowledge of the nervous system and years of experience navigating clients’ material, Noah brings a depth of understanding and compassion to his practice. He served as a mentor to me when I was a student of SE. His guidance was absolutely invaluable, and I’ve grown so much as a practitioner because of his expertise”.
Jessica Bishop, E-RYT, Reiki Practitioner, SEP
“Noah is a compassionate and attentive provider who creates highly attuned relationships with his clients. He skillfully navigates nervous system subtleties, empowering clients to make significant breakthroughs."
Zachary J. Bertone, LPC, LPCC, Ph.D.
“Noah is a solid practitioner and a solid human. He has a wealth of somatic tools to help clients negotiate trauma, cope with a variety of circumstances, and move toward a brighter future. He is tireless in his pursuit of knowledge and has studied with some of the top masters in trauma therapy, such as Peter Levine and many others. Above all, Noah is dedicated to his clients’ wellbeing and provides a safe and steady presence clients can trust.”
Rouel Cazanjian, MA, LMFT, CMT, SEP
FAQ
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It’s one thing to study SE and yet another to develop proficiency from the inside out. As you do your own personal work, you will become more versed in how to apply SE skills in an intuitive way.
An important element of these sessions is that over time, you naturally become more embodied. Embodiment can be defined in many ways, but for our purposes, let’s define embodiment as, “continuity of the felt sense.” When you stay connected to your body, you remain connected to your intuition, the coregulation field, and to somatic resonance. This is a far more effective way to work, and in my experience, more fulfilling.
I am an SEI-approved session provider at all levels, and work with many SEPs and participants in the training. Within the personal work, we weave in physioeducation, potential choice points, and why we might choose a specific path. This enriches the work rather than distracts from it, and creates a deeper felt sense experience to reinforce what you’re learning in the training.
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Unfortunately, psychotherapy training rarely teaches us a useful model to manage our capacity as healing professionals. On the contrary, we are taught to be present with our clients at all costs. Yet by doing this, we end up overriding our capacity, then steeling ourselves to our body’s warning signs of overwhelm and exhaustion. This singular focus takes a toll on our physical and emotional well-being, manifesting in burnout, compassion fatigue, and adverse effects on our health. For this reason, with therapists I begin by focusing primarily on understanding and expanding capacity.
By learning to track your capacity and stay within it, you’ll be more present to your own experience. You’ll notice pitfalls, that is, ways of working that are harmful for you. When you avoid them, you’ll feel less drained at the end of each day. The more you learn to stay within your capacity, the more it will grow over time. As a result, you can take on bigger challenges while simultaneously staying calm and grounded. This will help you stay connected to your passion for healing and will also ensure that the work stays fresh.
Not only is this more sustainable for you, but it’s also better for clients. When you bring your authentic self into the room, you offer them a healthier relational model and a greater depth of coregulation. However, if you inhibit your own experience to be present with clients instead, then you actually become less so. Inhibiting your experience will make you feel disconnected from the moment, so you must fake it to stay “present.” It’s impossible to show up consistently this way, so over time this harms client relationships and can create irreparable ruptures. On the other hand, when you can be fully in your own experience, you’ll naturally be more present in session without having to work so hard.
Apart from capacity considerations, there’s a depth to somatic processes that talk therapy fails to reach, and deeper layers can be addressed that might otherwise go unnoticed. This allows you to work with clients who had previously triggered your unresolved material, and in turn, supporting those clients can propel your own personal work. As a result, you will become more embodied and bring a different quality of yourself to all your clients, allowing them to feel more connected, more supported, and even safer in your presence.
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Although I see many of my clients in-person, this work can be equally effective when meeting virtually. I have clients that have been seeing me for years, making consistent breakthroughs, and yet have never met me in person. I am always amazed how this process can be tremendously beneficial in so many forms, creating lasting shifts that clients can bring into all aspects of their lives.
It’s worth noting that some clients truly need the relational element of being physically in the room with a practitioner. If you think this could be you, please don’t shortchange yourself. Should I not be able to meet you in person, I will help you find someone in your area who can. Alternatively, if we are meeting virtually I am open to working concurrently with your in-person talk therapist and even coordinating care if that would be helpful.
If you’re still unsure if virtual sessions would be appropriate for you, consider this:
Can you sense that your therapist is able to attune to your experience, and do you feel felt by him or her?
Can you stay with challenging internal states while simultaneously sensing into the safety of the relational container?
These are important prerequisites for any healthy therapeutic alliance, virtual or otherwise. However, it’s important to notice if being virtual is the thing that’s getting in the way of having this alliance.
To get the most out of virtual sessions, you’ll want to optimize your setup as it will enhance your experience and improve your therapeutic outcome. Beyond the obvious (comfortable private space, robust internet connection, etc.), here are a few considerations that will vastly improve our ability to do great work:
Position device straight ahead of you at eye-level. This will prevent you from having to twist and turn to see the screen. This way you can stay connected to your felt sense and your body’s subtle impulses.
Wider framing: when possible, frame for more than just your face. I am tracking physiological responses in the body so the more visual information, the better.
Larger screen: unless your vision is perfect, having a wider screen (at least laptop or iPad size) will help you better see me or the slides and videos I show in session.
Ensure your device is free standing (off your lap and not having to be held in place). Otherwise you may cut yourself off from fully sensing your physiology.
Set up your environment so you have visual access to resources and ideally, an exterior window. A resource is any object in your environment that connects you to peace, joy, or calm. Even pets are welcome as long as they do not overly distract you from your process. Having this support from your environment will allow organic pendulation to take place so that you can have one foot in the door of safety while the other is in the door of your emotionally challenging material.
Appropriate lighting: have enough light for me to see your microexpressions and subtle involuntary movement. Avoid silhouetting from the sun or bright light. If possible, refrain from blurring backgrounds as the artefacts will mimic movement and pull my attention away from what’s actually happening.
Do not feel like you have to make eye contact with me or the screen the entire time! This is unnatural and produces zoom fatigue. In session, I will teach you how to avoid zoom fatigue and get the most out of online video communication.
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Unlike talk therapy modalities, we are using your physiology as the lens to identify cognitive, emotional, and somatic patterns. We are looking for stuckness or “fixity” in the system and finding ways to allow these patterns to unravel and resolve. Over time, this will reorganize the nervous system and allow you to experience a felt sense of safety and connection. Then, as the experience of your inner world shifts, the experience of your outer world will shift as well.
Most of my clients come in having already done extensive somatic processing, but I will also take on motivated clients who are newer to this work. If after beginning, we find I am not a fit for you, I can connect you to someone who is more specialized in the type of support you need.