Rachel is a Somatic Trauma Practitioner, PNE Educator and writer. She holds integrative certifications in Somatic Release Technique (SRT), The Points Holding Process & PsychoNeuroEnergetic (PNE) therapeutic modalities from the Somatic Institute in Los Angeles, and an MFA in Creative writing from the University of San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Fifth Wall, was published by Black Sparrow Books in 2017 and was deemed by Chris Kraus in i-D Magazine as “falling within a new and exciting tradition of female philosophical fiction.” 

Rachel’s transition to the world of healing evolved from her lifelong investigation of the gut-heart-brain (dis)connection that can occur from trauma. Growing up with severe autoimmune responses (from chronic gut inflammation to full-body paralysis to depression, anxiety and dissociation), Rachel’s explorations in numerous alt-therapies (from Alexander Technique to Traditional Chinese Medicine to working closely with fifth lineage Shipibo shamans in Pucallpa, Peru in 2016) lead her to find PNE as a method that works safely on the deepest levels to produce real and lasting nervous system shifts.

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Rachel incorporates her continued practices of Vedic meditation, studies in non-dualism, and plant medicine explorations of consciousness and healing into her facilitation approach, alongside polyvagal regulation techniques taught by Dr. Stanley Rosenberg and his protege, Thor Philipsen, DO & the somatic-based practices of Dr. Peter A. Levine, offering a deeper dual spiritual + scientific component. 

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In addition to her private practice, Rachel runs somatic and creative writing focused recovery groups at Red Door Life in Los Angeles, and is also developing a Jungian-influenced Somatic Dreamwork practice, currently offered as 1-hour sessions over Zoom. She most recently deepened her training in Transactional Analysis at the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy, and is currently undergoing apprentice training at the Psychedelic Somatic Institute  where she is learning deeper methods to work with and help clients with complex developmental PTSD access their primary consciousness' homeostatic psychobiological resolution.