Individual Session Work
A STEADY PLACE TO RETURN TO YOURSELF.
AN INVITATION
A safe place for those who seek refuge.
This is an offering for people who are listening to something inside themselves — a longing for healing, for slowness, for a deeper way of being met. It is for those who have come up against the edges of traditional talk therapy and are reaching for something more whole.
What we offer is not a method to follow. It is a relationship, paced by your stability and steered by deep listening. Together we work at a rhythm that builds resilience — weaving body, story, and spirit; bridging scientific understanding with ancestral and primal wisdom; midwifing the liminal spaces between what is ending and what wants to be born.
AN INVITATION
A safe place for those who seek refuge.
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True refuge.
A relational container where rhythm and presence gently reorganize what has become scattered — a place to be paced, met, and seen as whole.
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Rooted in body & earth.
Somatic, nature-informed practice that bridges nervous-system science with ancestral wisdom. The body remembers; the earth supports; healing becomes possible.
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Sacred timing
We move only at a pace that promotes your stability and resilience. This is not a sprint toward fixing; it is a slow, honoring return to what is already alive in you.
THOSE WHO HOLD THIS WORK
Our clinicians.
A small circle of licensed therapists and associates, each carrying their own lineage of training and tending — gathered to offer this work with depth, care, and a shared orientation toward wholeness.
Julie Anne Steiger
SEP · LCSW #76510
Founder · Somatic Psychotherapist
Clinical Supervisor
SPECIALIZATIONS
Adults and children with complex/developmental trauma, chronic illness and somatic symptoms, medical trauma or near death experiences. Working with those to recover nervous system, build inner resiliency and capacity, with a decolonizing and depathologizing lens.
ORIENTATION
Earth connection, empowerment, bridging scientific understanding with ancestral or primal wisdom, midwifing liminal spaces between life and death, weaver of dissociative parts and soul fragmentation.
Megan Zuzevich
LMFT
Co-Founder · Clinical Supervisor · Director of Operations
SPECIALIZATIONS
Adults navigating trauma at the root, nervous system dysregulation, and the integration of body, mind, and environment. Working with those seeking to depathologize their experience and rebuild from underlying foundations.
ORIENTATION
Integrative and trauma-informed, drawing on EMDR alongside metabolic, environmental, and biological foundations of mental health. Symptoms understood as signals; healing approached as restoration rather than management.
Lisa Mariano
ACSW #116793
Psychotherapist · Group Facilitator
SPECIALIZATIONS
Hospice, grief and loss, codependency and relational trauma, neurodivergence support, children and adolescents.
ORIENTATION
Person-centered, harm reduction, strengths-based. Trained in Somatic Experiencing, CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing.
Itzel Barakat
AMFT #159412
Psychotherapist · Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
SPECIALIZATIONS
LGBTQIA+, highly sensitive children and adults, veterans, anxiety and depression, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, relational challenges, coping skill development.
ORIENTATION
Person-centered, strengths-based, Somatic Experiencing, Motivational Interviewing, harm reduction, CBT, DBT.
Samar Sepehri
AMFT #161074
Somatic Psychotherapist · Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
SPECIALIZATIONS
Adults, teens, children, couples, and families navigating prenatal and perinatal challenges, IVF and fertility support, postpartum depression, birth and attachment, generational healing, nervous system regulation.
ORIENTATION
Somatic, Somatic Experiencing, CBT, DBT, person-centered, trauma-informed, strengths-based.
As the work calls forward new tenders, this circle continues to widen. Reach out to learn who else may be holding space.
WHAT TO EXPECT
The shape of the refuge.
A gentle entry. We move slowly, on purpose — because the way we begin shapes the work that follows.
i. consultation
An initial conversation.
We talk on the phone for twenty minutes — long enough to sense whether this is a good fit for what you're carrying. If we believe someone else is better suited to walk with you, we offer a thoughtful referral.
~ 20 MINUTES · NO COST
ii. arrival
Before the first session
Once scheduled, you'll receive a confirmation and an invitation to your secure Simple Practice portal — the quiet container where all scheduling and intake paperwork lives.
CONFIRMATION · INTAKE
iii. meeting
The first meeting
We spend sixty unhurried minutes together — reviewing what you bring, what you hope for, and most of all making the beginning of a working relationship. We touch any relevant past therapy and sketch a treatment plan as a gentle guide, never a prescription.
~ 60 MINUTES
iv. rhythm
The rhythm that follows
Ongoing sessions run sixty minutes. We choose a consistent cadence so that safety, reliability, and trust can take root — and so the work has time to deepen.
60 MINUTES · WEEKLY
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Rooted, slow-growing,reaching toward what nourishes — we take our cues from the trees.
THE WIDER CIRCLE
Individual session work is one ring of a wider spiral — an island of coherence that opens outward into community, intergenerational gathering, and the held field of nature, ancestors, and spirit.
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READY TO BEGIN?
Grab your favorite cup of tea, and let's talk.
The first conversation costs nothing but twenty minutes. It is simply a place to begin listening together.