IINIVIDUAL SESSION WORK
Meet Our Clinicians
Therapy here is a collaborative, deeply human process — a meeting of expertise and presence.
Each clinician at A Human Sanctuary brings their own lineage of training, their own lived experience, and their own way of accompanying another person through the territory of healing. What we share is a conviction that healing begins in authentic connection — and that the people we work with are not problems to be solved, but whole humans being met in the fullness of what they carry and the possibility of what wants to emerge.
We integrate evidence-based psychotherapy with somatic, relational, and nature-informed perspectives that honor the interconnectedness of mind, body, spirit, and the larger living world. Our work is rooted in trauma-informed care, nervous system awareness, and a long view of human becoming.
Julie Anne Steiger
SEP · LCSW #76510
Founder · Somatic Psychotherapist
Clinical Supervisor
Julie Anne has dedicated her career to cultivating the tools and practices required for healing and growth after trauma — blending the science of the nervous system, the creativity of the arts, and the wisdom of nature to guide people back to their inherent wholeness.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Women and children with complex or developmental trauma; highly sensitive and neurodivergent people; those who have not found traditional talk therapy supportive, folks living with chronic somatic symptoms.
ORIENTATION TO HEALING
Earth connection, empowerment, bridging scientific understanding with ancestral wisdom, midwifing the liminal, weaving dissociative parts and soul fragmentation.
Megan Zuzevich
LMFT #108284
Co-Founder · Clinical Supervisor
Director of Operations
Megan brings an integrative, trauma-informed approach to psychotherapy, drawing on EMDR alongside the metabolic, environmental, and biological foundations of mental health. In her work, symptoms are understood as signals — invitations to listen more deeply to the body, the nervous system, and the conditions of a life. Healing is approached as restoration rather than management.
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 TO HEALING
Integrative and trauma-informed; EMDR alongside metabolic, environmental, and biological foundations of mental health.
Lisa Mariano
SEP · MSW · ASW #116793
Psychotherapist · Group Facilitator
Lisa offers a warm, accepting space to unpack complicated feelings, celebrate growth, and stay present with what is unfolding. Central to her practice is the innate human capacity for compassion, humor, and wisdom — a steady ground from which to meet what brings you to the work, and what emerges once you arrive.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Hospice, grief and loss, codependency and relational trauma, neurodivergence support, children and adolescents.
ORIENTATION TO HEALING
Person-Centered, Harm Reduction, Strengths-Based; trained in Somatic Experiencing, CBT, DBT, and Motivational Interviewing.
Itzel Barakat
AMFT #159412
Psychotherapist · Associate Marriage
& Family Therapist
Itzel (they/them) is a heart-centered therapist who believes healing begins in authentic connection. Their approach weaves Narrative Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Family Systems to help clients reconnect with their inner wisdom and restore balance between mind, body, and spirit — a place where stories can be rewritten and new possibilities for self-compassion emerge.
SPECIALIZATIONS
LGBTQIA+, highly sensitive children and adults, veterans; anxiety, depression, grief and loss, trauma and PTSD, relational challenges, coping skill development.
ORIENTATION TO HEALING
Person-Centered, Strengths-Based, Somatic Experiencing, Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, CBT, DBT.
Samar Sepehri
AMFT #161074
Somatic Psychotherapist · Associate
Marriage & Family Therapist
Samar's approach integrates Somatic Experiencing, Implicit Psychology, meditation, and mindfulness. She leads with kindness, warmth, and heart — believing in the deep connection between mind and body. Together with clients, she uncovers the activation patterns that keep them stuck and helps them feel like themselves again.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Adults, teens, children, couples, and families navigating prenatal and perinatal challenges, IVF and fertility support, postpartum, birth and attachment, generational healing, and nervous system regulation.
ORIENTATION TO HEALING
Somatic Experiencing, CBT, DBT, Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based.
WELCOME TO THE SANCTUARY.
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We offer a complimentary twenty-minute phone consultation to help us understand what you’re seeking and whether one of our clinicians is a good fit. If we sense that someone outside our practice is better suited to your needs, we’ll happily refer you onward.
You are warmly welcome here.