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Somatic & Depth Therapist in Encinitas

Somatic psychotherapy for creatives, seekers, and deep feelers ready to stop surviving and start fully living.

Taoism - the way of nature - flow, adaptability, soft power, and nonresistance.

You are designed

by nature

for movement

and mystery.

Something in you already knows

the way.

“Anthony has changed my life. A year of Somatic Experiencing with him has done what years of talk therapy couldn’t. He helps you actually feel and release what your body has been holding, not just talk around it. Paired with EMDR when needed, it reaches deeper places. He holds space with so much steady compassion, never judgment. I’m more regulated, more loving, more myself now. If you’re stuck despite ‘doing the work’ in your head, this is the missing piece. He’s the real deal.”

Isabella

Welcome to My Practice

Most therapy will help you adjust. I'm more interested in what you're adjusting away from.

I work with the square pegs — visionaries, artists, outsiders, highly sensitive and creative souls whose gifts are real and largely unseen, often by themselves most of all. Somewhere along the way, parts of you learned to keep you small — to stay safe, stay harmless, stay beneath your own potential.

 

Those strategies made sense once. They're costing you now.

The work is learning to hear what those outdated defenses have been protecting all along:

something wilder and more whole, carrying gifts the world hasn't seen yet.

This isn't therapy for people who want to be more normal.

It's for people ready to live the largest story they're capable of living.

Who I Work With

My clients are artists, musicians, writers, filmmakers, dancers, activists, visionaries, entrepreneurs, teachers, conscious parents, and spiritual seekers — and those who've always quietly suspected they might be — people who feel the full weight and beauty of life and are hungry to meet it more completely.

 

What brings them here rarely fits a clinical category. More often, it's a felt sense: something is being held back. A creative vision that won't quite emerge. A pattern of self-sabotage that appears right at the threshold of something real. A capacity for love — of self, of others, of life itself — that feels perpetually just out of reach. On the surface, this might look like anxiety, depression, or a habit that won't let go — but I understand these as the body's brilliant strategies for surviving whatever once felt unsurvivable, strategies that have simply stopped serving the life you're trying to live.

If some part of you suspects there is more — more freedom, more aliveness, more full-throated participation in the life you came here to live — you are exactly who I'm here to work with.

Therapeutic Approach

I work integratively, drawing on Somatic Experiencing, EMDR, Internal Family Systems (parts work), depth psychology, dreamwork, and mindfulness — choosing what each person and moment calls for.

 

The aim is never just symptom relief, but a genuine return to wholeness: the full, untamed version of you that was there before life asked you to make yourself smaller.

A friend once called this work 'consciousness midwifery' — I've never found a better description.

Connect With Me

If something here resonated, I'd love to talk.

Book Your Free 15-Minute Call

No pitch. No pressure. Just a conversation.

Beginner's Mind?

“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities,
but in the expert’s there are few” — Shunryu Suzuki Roshi


Most suffering runs on old stories — the same conclusions about who you are and what's possible, repeated until they feel like permanent truth.

Beginner's Mind, as understood in the Zen tradition, is the practice of
meeting yourself — indeed everything  as if for the first time.
 
My practice is rooted in years of rigorous training and lived experience, alongside the conviction that real expertise knows when to set its own
certainty aside
— and simply stay curious about what's actually here.

Why This Work and Why Now?

Well, for starters: When besides now could it possibly happen? :)

We are living through a moment of profound collective upheaval. Old stories are dissolving; new ones haven't yet found their form. In times like these, the world needs more than symptom management or a return to baseline functioning — it needs grounded, courageous, creatively alive human beings who are fully here, fully awake, and fully willing to give their gifts. That is what this work is in service of: not adjustment, not mere relief, but genuine, embodied aliveness.

Testimonials

"I've had a few therapists over the years, but nothing has come close to working with Anthony. His approach combines nervous system training, IFS, and EMDR in a way that genuinely rewired something in me. I now have a new baseline of calm and presence that I didn't think was possible for me. What I'm noticing as we continue is that my interactions with the people in my life just feel easier and happier. I'm discovering parts of myself I didn't have access to before, and I'm finding my way back to the things I've always really wanted to do. It feels like I'm uncovering who I actually am. If you're looking for someone who can take you somewhere you've never been able to get on your own, Anthony is that person. I can't wait to see where this continues to go — and I hope you get to experience it, too."     - AC

"Anthony made therapy feel natural and comfortable. He created a space where I felt truly heard and understood, validating my thoughts and feelings without judgment. This openness allowed me to reflect on my experiences and understand how they shape who I am. Working with Anthony has helped me grow mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. His introduction of perspectives and practices, like meditation, has made me more grounded and self-aware. I value and appreciate Anthony's work immensely and never imagined experiencing such real personal growth."   - BD

"Being completely new to therapy, I didn't know what to expect. Anthony helped guide me and made me feel extremely comfortable, like I knew him forever. He helped me better understand myself and discover things I never knew I needed. 10/10 - book yourself an appointment, you won't be disappointed."    - NV

Contact Me

When you're ready — or even just curious — I'm here.

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