Truth lives in your body. I help you learn to hear it.

I'm a somatic psychotherapist who works in your body — where your deepest knowing lives. For women, queer folks, and couples ready to heal from the inside out.

I call myself a heart-centered heathen. I'm sincere and deeply feeling, with a pretty wild rogue streak that pushes back against the status quo. I've always danced between the worlds of the mundane and the sacred — trying to make meaning from the mystical, while being completely part of this practical world. I have a penchant for bringing tenderness to the places that are most often taboo and shameful. I seem to approach life seriously and reverently but not without lots of humor to make its medicine go down easier.

All of my work — be it in the therapy room, on the yoga mat, on the dance floor, or through a piece of poetry —seeks to ground the spiritual through the body and everyday life and to make the ordinary more vital and ecstatic. The skill that makes that possible, I've come to understand, is embodied truth. The capacity to know what you actually feel, need, and long for and to voice it and live from it.

I believe the most important truths we carry our found directly in and through our bodies. In your throat that tightens before you say the true thing. In your chest that opens when you finally do. My work is dedicated to helping people come into direct contact with embodied truth — what you actually feel, what you actually need, what you've been longing for underneath all the coping and the managing. And then learning to voice it, and live from it. Not the truth you've been handed. or the one you had to develop to survive. The one that is here now.

I've live this process myself - continually learning to grow immense capacity on the inside to meet my life on life's terms, and not shy away from who I am and am being asked to become.

Being female, queer, Jewish, divorced, a mother, and neurodivergent are identities and experiences that shape how I listen, what I notice, and who I am in the room with you. The many hats I move between any given day include: mama, devoted partner, bonus parent, long-time yoga practitioner and meditator, ecstatic dancer, novice potter, teacher, writer, friend, farm to table cook.

SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY

I work with women of all ages, queer folks, and couples of all orientations and relationship styles. The people who find their way to me are often navigating something that has shaken them at the core — parenting, divorce, sexual trauma, narcissistic abuse, profound grief, emergence of a change in identity, the disorientation of a life that no longer fits. They are ready to meet themselves.

I help people reorient and repair their nervous systems so they can live more vibrantly, authentically, and powerfully. I assist in processes of trauma healing, navigating life's transitions and thresholds, building more sustainable relationships, and supporting the emergence of authentic desire and healthy impulse.

This work moves slowly and with care. Direct doesn't mean fast — it means we don't look away. I take time to build real relationship, and we work in and through your body at a pace your nervous system can actually integrate. Presence before technique. Contact before content.

I'm here to help you come into contact with what's been waiting underneath. Your desire. Your clarity. Your capacity to arrive more fully into the life you actually want.

I am known to be direct, honest, and still warm — and exceptionally skillful at slowing down enough to track what's alive in your body, holding a space where it has room to surface and where you can learn to trust what it's saying. People tell me they feel genuinely met here — not managed, not analyzed, but actually met. I work with humor, without flinching, and with deep respect for how tender and courageous this work is.

I specialize in grief and loss, anxiety, PTSD, C-PTSD, intergenerational and attachment trauma, intimate betrayal, narcissistic abuse, sexual trauma, body image discomfort, major life transitions, and spiritual emergence in mind-body practitioners.

Livia holds a master's in Somatic Counseling Psychology from Naropa University, where she then served as faculty in the somatic program. She is a certified SomaSource Life Cycles Practitioner and graduated Cum Laude from the University of Vermont with a focus on Psychology and Comparative Religion.

WRITING & PUBLISHING

Writing is, for me, another way of digesting life and emotions — a way of making art from bewilderment and beauty, both. A way to cultivate pleasure and offer praise and gratitude to a world more and more unhinged by the day. Writing serves to integrate the process of underworld journeys. Sometimes the writing becomes an offering- a gem from that time. Sometimes it stays private, part of my own process of finding what's true.

As a poet and writer, I attempt to craft vivid prose and free verse that traverse topics like feminism, misogyny, healing, motherhood, nature and the vast and complicated terrain of being a human alive right now. My work has been praised for its nuance, sanity, and courageous humanity, and can be found in Taproot magazine and across a range of podcasts.

I am the author of The Somatic Therapy Workbook: Stress-Relieving Exercises for Strengthening the Mind-Body Connection and Sparking Emotional and Physical Healing (2020) — an offering to bring somatic psychology out of the therapy room and into everyone's hands. My peer-reviewed article Yoga-Based Body Psychotherapy is published in the International Journal of Body Psychotherapy, and continues to serve as a point on the map for folks looking to integrate yoga and psychotherapy.

YOGA & SOMATIC EDUCATION

For over twenty five years I have been practicing, teaching, and actively bridging the worlds of somatic psychology and yoga — bringing essential somatic principles into the yoga room for dedicated students and instructors worldwide. My teaching here continues to invite people to inhabit their bodies not as a project to optimize but as a source of truth to live from more fully — expanding range of motion and range of emotion together. I'm known for making the spiritual path feel exactly as human, messy, and worthwhile as it actually is.

As an ecstatic dance and movement facilitator, I create immersive somatic movement experiences rooted in the same philosophy that runs through all of my work: that the sacred is available in the ordinary, that spiritual practice can be earthy and embodied and fully alive, and that the body knows how to find its way home when given the space to move freely. These gatherings are an invitation to make magic from the everyday — to let the mundane become the portal. To find organic places to express and feel and experience healing.