Rachel is a writer turned somatics practitioner & educator. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco, and has integrative certifications in Somatic Release Technique (SRT), The Points Holding Process & PsychoNeuroEnergetic (PNE) therapeutic modalities from the Somatic Institute in Los Angeles. 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 from writing to the world of healing evolved from her lifelong investigation of the gut-heart-brain disconnection that can occur from trauma. Growing up with severe autoimmune responses (from chronic gut inflammation to full-body paralysis to depression and dissociation), Rachel’s explorations in numerous alt-therapies 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 explorations of consciousness and healing via plant medicine 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 to the work. 

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In addition to her private practice, Rachel runs somatic-focused recovery groups in Los Angeles focusing on addiction and body-based self-regulation practices, as well as creative writing, and is also developing a Jungian-influenced Somatic Dreamwork practice, currently offered as 1-hour sessions over Zoom. She is currently deepening her training in Transactional Analysis at the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy, and is beginning to study craniosacral unwinding techniques to incorporate into her in-person sessions.

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