Harness the Innate Wisdom of Your Physiology
Promote Resiliency
Bounce back faster from life’s ups and downs through healthy nervous system regulation. Physical and emotional wellness will improve as both parasympathetic (rest & digest) and sympathetic (mobilization) functioning improve, allowing for greater overall calm and increased energy for work and play.
Build Relational Depth
Increase connection with others while strengthening your sense of self. Ventral Vagal—the branch of the vagus nerve that allows you to sense safety and connection—can be strengthened over time, allowing you to expand your community while simultaneously increasing your sense of belonging.
Increase Capacity
Handle bigger life challenges while staying calm, grounded, and present. Work professionally from a place of capacity rather than override. This allows you to take on more over time while reducing accumulated stress and overwhelm.
Hi, I’m Noah!
My own 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 our sessions engaging and fun. They will unfold through improvised exploration, collaborative intervention, and spontaneous emergence of flow. We are unraveling stuck patterns and revealing aliveness underneath, all while honoring your inherent capacity. This reduces the risks of both stagnancy and overwhelm.
Clients are innately whole and naturally moving toward growth. I am merely a guide with the tools, insight, and experience necessary to assist those who are farther along in their process. 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 choose to 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
“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, 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 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
“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
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, few of us learn a useful model for managing capacity in our psychotherapy training. On the contrary, we are often implicitly taught to override our own experience. Not only is this an unhealthy model for our clients with appease tendencies and relational challenges, but it also takes a toll on our own physical and emotional well-being, manifesting in burnout, compassion fatigue, and adverse health effects.
This is why tracking and expanding capacity is a cornerstone of my work with healing professionals. Therapy training tends to teach us to inhibit ourselves so that we can fully be present with our clients. However, when we do this, we are in fact less present for our clients. This is because as we ignore our own experience, we feel less connected to others. We also inevitably end up overriding our own capacity, then steeling ourselves to our body’s warning signs of overwhelm and fatigue. Over time, this harms both us and our client relationships. Yet when you are present to your own experience, you will then become more present for your clients in session. You can then track your actual capacity, learn to stay within it, and feel recharged rather than drained at the end of each day.
The good news is that if you learn to work in this way, your capacity will grow naturally over time. As a result, you can take on bigger challenges while simultaneously staying calm and grounded. This will exponentially increase your ability to stay connected with clients. You could even increase your daily caseload without experiencing overwhelm. An expanded capacity will help you remain connected to your passion for healing and ensure the work stays fresh. I could explain this more in a consult, but it won’t make sense in a meaningful way until you begin to experience it.
Apart from capacity considerations, there’s a depth to the somatic processes that talk therapy often fails to reach, and deeper layers can be addressed that might otherwise go unnoticed. This allows you to work with clients who 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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Unlike “talk” modalities, we are using your physiology as the lens on your cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and somatic patterns, identify stuckness in the system and allowing for completion of defensive responses. Over time, this reorganizes the nervous system and you will start to experience a sustained felt sense of safety and connection.
As you shift the way you experience your inner world, the experience of your outer world will shift as well. Most of my clients come in having done extensive somatic processing, but I will also take on motivated clients who are newer to the work. If we find I am not a fit for you, I can help connect you to a great clinician who may be more specialized in the type of support you are needing.