Care for a New World
GUIDANCE
SOMATIC THERAPY
ritual
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somatic psychotherapy
ketamine-assisted psychotherapy
ritual for all marks of life
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Hello, i’m hannah joy tamezoujT
(taam-eh-zuusht)
LMFT #154680
Tamezoujt means valley of the amzoujt (a flowering bush) in Tarifit, the original language of North Eastern Morocco. I was raised between cultures, religions, and continents, and was fortunate to get to witness how vastly different peoples relate to selfhood, family, community and land.
Through these formative experiences, in dialogue with a lifelong devoted study of dance and other movement arts, I also learned about the different ways we all dissociate from our bodies and environment, denigrate the bodies of others (human and more than human), and divorce ourselves from our ground (literal/material, bodily, familial, communal, spiritual) in order to survive under life-denying conditions. I believe all psychological distress is the result of these specific disembodying survival strategies we, our relationships, families, communities, and our lineages, have had to employ to exist in these conditions without absolutely losing it.
I bow to those strategies. They have made generations of life possible.
And they also cause us to harm ourselves and each other in ways that are unnecessary. Many of us are discovering that it is our responsibility to put some of these strategies to rest, so that a more vital, viable future is possible.
I came to the world of somatic psychotherapy from a background exploring and teaching dance & mindful movement, pilates & gyrotonic, yoga & qi gong. I know that it is possible from experience to change your state, your relationships, and sense of self for the better, if you are up for the task of deep, somatic self-engagement. Although we will make new meaning in our work together, I care more about helping you grow a new and lasting experience of yourself, than supporting you to gain insight. I want to help you learn how to live yourself differently. If I have done my work well, you will leave our time together empowered, enlivened, and more connected to life.
in service to life on earth
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in service to life on earth ·
i’m interested in…
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trauma resolution
real, lasting change through body-attending, in small digestible steps + practice , practice , practice
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friendship, partner(s)+, family & community therapy
support in strengthening all of the relationships that hold us
getting to the core of dynamics that keep us going in circles, and learning to do something different by getting out of our heads and into our embodiment, together
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discovering deep purpose
what gifts you came to this life to bring
what your relationship offers the world
finding your community’s core give-away
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rootless, relevant ritual
conjuring ceremony that not only marks moments of transition, but fundamentally changes the transitioned
finding ground in the reality of lineages that have been uprooted
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honoring ancestral inheritance
learning how to honor, how to feed, what to give back, what to bring to the future
supporting the immigrant or first-generation experience
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meeting this historical moment
facilitating somatically-based resilience for individuals, partners, families and communities
why life on earth?
Because healing from the root means addressing our original attachment wound: our separation from mother earth
Somatic work brings us back to the ground of our being
Frequently asked questions
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I do not accept insurance, but do have openings for steep sliding scale. reach out below to inquire
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sessions range from $200–$300, depending on the type of work we are doing. please see my pricing page for a more detailed list of my offerings & rates. I am also committed to making this work accessible through a sliding scale model - please reach out directly to inquire more.
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somatic psychotherapy is a large basket that holds many different modalities. the way I practice has been informed by my study of formative psychology, bioenergetics, somatic experiencing, hakomi, somatic abolitionism, process work, psychobiological approach to couples therapy (PACT), body-mind centering, contact improvisation, biodynamic craniosacral, and alchemy in movement. I also bring a dedicated study of earth-based traditions of relationality and reciprocity with the more-than-human world into my work that helps to ground my clients’ processes within a larger context of cycles, ecology, seasons, and elements.
I regard our ‘psychological’ experience - our emotions, thoughts, sense of identity, patterns we repeat in relationships - as arising from our bodies rather than our brains. what this looks like in practice could be something like addressing anxiety through working with patterns of tension in your chest, rather than engaging your thought or emotional patterns. through helping you to unwind the tension pattern physically- through my guiding your awareness of your own sensorial world with language , through movement, and sometimes by providing hands-on support - the anxiety will unwind as well.
the distress that brings us to seek help is an embodied experience that happens in all of us, in relationship - we have to engage our whole selves through relational embodied experience to move through it. there is often a whole new way of being we didn’t even know was possible on the other side.
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I see clients in person, and make exceptions for clients who cannot come in for a session or two due to illness or other sudden unforeseen circumstances. somatic therapy and guidance is simply not the same if we are not in-body!
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ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, or KAP, is a legal option for working with psychedelic, or altered states in therapy. this work can offer profound and lasting changes to the core of challenges such as depression and substance mis-use struggles, as it creates an opportunity to disorganize longstanding painful patterning, and create new options in its place. KAP can be done as a stand-alone treatment, or as a part of our ongoing psychotherapeutic relationship. the process involves determining eligibility , diagnosis and prescription from a psychiatrist.
for more in-depth information, please see my dedicated KAP page.
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