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 · Course Creator & Workshop Facilitator
Julie Anne is the Founder of A Human Sanctuary and clinical supervisor for our associate therapists. A Somatic Experiencing Practitioner certified in Expressive Arts and Ecotherapy, with more than ten years of experience using EMDR, she blends the science of the nervous system, the creativity of the arts, and the wisdom of nature to guide people back into their inherent wholeness and resiliency.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Adults and children with complex and developmental trauma; chronic illness and somatic symptoms; medical trauma and near-death experiences. Working with those seeking to recover nervous system regulation and build inner resiliency, held through a decolonizing and depathologizing lens.
ORIENTATION TO HEALING
Earth connection, empowerment, bridging scientific understanding with ancestral and primal wisdom, midwifing the liminal spaces between life and death, weaving together dissociative parts and soul fragmentation.
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Megan Zuzevich
LMFT
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.
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Lisa Mariano
SEP · LCSW #76510
Associate Social Worker · Psychotherapist · Group Facilitator
Under the Licensed Supervision of Julie Anne Steiger, LCSW #76510
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
MARY OLIVER
I provide a warm and accepting space where you may unpack and explore complicated feelings, celebrate growth, and stay present with what is unfolding in your life. Central to my practice is connecting with our innate capacity for compassion, humor, and wisdom — a safe ground from which you may be honestly, courageously, steadily present with what has brought you to sessions, as well as what emerges once here.
I bring a creative, flexible skill set from more than twenty-five years of working with children, adults, seniors, and families in a variety of settings, including as a hospice social worker. It is an honor to do this work, and I look forward to supporting and encouraging you on your unique healing journey.
We’re all just walking each other home.
— RAM DASS
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, Motivational Interviewing
INSURANCE & RATES
Aetna, Evernorth, Cigna, United Healthcare, Optum, Blue Shield, or private pay (sliding scale $150–$225/hr).
Itzel Barakat
AMFT #159412
Associate Marriage & Family Therapist · Psychotherapist
Under the Licensed Supervision of Julie Anne Steiger, LCSW #76510
Itzel (they/them) is a heart-centered therapist who believes healing begins in authentic connection. Their approach integrates Narrative Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Internal Family Systems (IFS) to help clients reconnect with their inner wisdom and restore balance between mind, body, and spirit. They hold space for deep, transformative work — where stories can be rewritten, emotions safely felt, and new possibilities for self-compassion and wholeness emerge.
SPECIALIZATIONS
LGBTQIA+ clients, highly sensitive children and adults, veterans; anxiety and depression, grief and loss, trauma and post-traumatic stress, relational challenges, coping skill development.
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ORIENTATION
Person-Centered, Strengths-Based, Somatic Experiencing, Motivational Interviewing, Harm Reduction, CBT, DBT.
INSURANCE & RATES
Aetna, Evernorth, Cigna, United Healthcare, Optum, Blue Shield, or private pay (sliding scale $150–$225/hr).
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Samar Sepehri
AMFT #161074
Somatic Psychotherapist · Associate Marriage & Family Therapist
Under the Licensed Supervision of Julie Anne Steiger, LCSW #76510
My approach integrates Somatic Experiencing, Implicit Psychology, meditation, and mindfulness. I lead with kindness, warmth, and heart. As a somatic psychotherapist, I believe in the importance of connection between mind and body — therapy can help uncover the barriers that are in the way, so that you can begin to feel like your true self again. I work with clients in uncovering the activation patterns that keep them stuck.
SPECIALIZATIONS
Adults, teens, children, couples, and families navigating prenatal and perinatal challenges, IVF and fertility support, postpartum depression, birth and attachment, blueprint and imprint work, generational healing, nervous system regulation.
ORIENTATION
Somatic, Somatic Experiencing, CBT, DBT, Person-Centered, Trauma-Informed, Strengths-Based.
INSURANCE & RATES
Aetna, Evernorth, Cigna, United Healthcare, Optum, Blue Shield, or private pay (sliding scale $150–$225/hr).
A NEXT STEP
Ready to Begin?
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.