somatic therapy for parenthood and relationships

Welcome

You are not meant to go through life’s challenges alone. You are wired for connection, and deserve care and support as you traverse life’s greatest transitions and transformations.

Whether you are trying to conceive, pregnant, postpartum, moving through the intensity of early parenthood, or navigating complex relationship issues, therapy can be a place to be held, witnessed, to process, to regulate, to repair, and to return to yourself.

I support individual adults and couples throughout California via telehealth, with a somatic and integrative approach that honors the body, mind, and spiritual aspects of your life transitions. Together, we’ll slow down, listen, and weave your nervous system, your lived history, and your current relationships into a path forward that feels grounded, resourced and authentic for you.

In this space all parts of you are welcome, and are gently invited to heal at their aligned pace.

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About the therapist

I’m Eve, a licensed marriage and family therapist supporting individuals and couples across California. I work with people in the most emotionally charged and identity-shifting seasons— fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and early parenthood, and the relationships that are impacted along the way.

My approach is somatic and integrative. I don’t see healing as a purely cognitive process; the body holds what the mind alone cannot resolve. In our work together, we slow down, track sensation, meaning, patterning, attachment, and lived experience. We use the wisdom of the whole system to move toward change. I blend relational, psychodynamic, trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, mind-body modalities to meet you in the moment, not forcing or rushing an outcome.

As a mother myself, I understand how disorienting and awakening these transitions can be, and how much it matters to have support that is attuned and non-pathologizing.

I’m here to help you trust yourself more deeply, feel safer in your own body, and find your way back to grounded connection within yourself and your relationships.

Services

Individual therapy for adults

One-on-one therapy offers a space to slow down, attune inward, and reconnect with your own inner compass. Together we explore the layered experiences that shape how you move through the external world and how you relate to your inner landscape.

In our work together, experiential exploration becomes an anchor. We track present-moment internal awareness, allowing the body to reveal information that may not yet have words. Sessions may include movement, art, guided imagery, and embodied processing to access deeper layers of meaning and regulation. Alongside this, you’ll learn concrete and practical tools— boundary skills, self care practices, and parenting support. This is therapy that honors intuition, creativity, physiology, and the everyday reality of being human in our modern world.

Our work is collaborative and grounded in safety, curiosity, and your natural capacity to heal. Therapy is a space to release what is no longer needed, reclaim parts of yourself you’ve lost or muted, and create new pathways toward connection, stability, and ease— in your body, your relationships, and your life.

$200 per 50 minute session.

Couples therapy

Couples therapy offers a place to repair, strengthen, and reconnect, especially during seasons that stretch a relationship: fertility journeys, pregnancy, postpartum shifts, and the stressors of early parenthood. Together we slow the moment down so we can understand the patterns between you, not blame either partner.

Using somatic awareness, attachment theory, and experiential relational work, we explore how each of you protects, signals, copes, shuts down, and reaches for connection. We tend to the nervous system, the history each of you brings, and the impact of unmet needs and unspoken injuries.

This work helps you both communicate more honestly, receive each other more clearly, and build the capacity to stay connected through conflict, not just when things are easy. The goal is not perfection. The goal is resilience, safety, intimacy, and partnership that feels like a secure home base for both of you.

$230 per 50 minute session.

FAQs

  • Experiential therapy is a therapeutic approach that helps clients access insight, healing, and change through direct experience rather than conversation alone. Instead of only talking about problems, clients engage in activities, practices, or interactions that bring emotions, sensations, beliefs, and relational patterns into the present moment so they can be explored and transformed.

    It often includes somatic work, expressive arts, role-play, movement, imagery, or structured exercises that make the inner experience more vivid and accessible. The therapist helps the client notice what arises and supports them in processing and integrating those experiences.

    At its core, experiential therapy works from the idea that people heal by experiencing new ways of being, not just intellectually understanding them.

  • No I do not take insurance. I am an out-of-network provider. You may request a superbill (receipt for services) which you can submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. Please note that superbills require a mental health diagnosis. Be sure to call your insurance beforehand to determine your coverage for out-of-network therapy.

  • I am licensed with the state of California Board of Behavioral Sciences as a Marriage and Family Therapist- LMFT #121154.

    I completed my Master’s Degree in Counseling Psychology with a Somatic Specialization at John F. Kennedy University in the Bay Area.

    I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Practice of Art from UC Berkeley.

    I am a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.

    Before opening my private practice in 2020, I worked in community mental health— serving children, teens, families, and adults in various settings including schools, in the field, and in office.

    I am continuously engaged in ongoing education to deepen and expand my clinical knowledge and skills. I’m currently participating in therapist trainings with Juliane Taylor Shore. I’m reading Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne. I’ve recently been inspired by the books Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff; Good Inside by Dr. Becky; and No Bad Kids by Janet Landsbury.

    If you ever want to know more about my past or current trainings, experience, or book recommendations, please feel free to ask!

  • Therapy is a weekly commitment. Consistency is essential for the work to be effective, supportive, and transformative.

    If you are in a season of needing more support or want to go deeper into your healing work, twice-a-week sessions are available. With more frequent sessions, less time is spent checking in and updating the therapist on your life events, and you are able to more efficiently delve into the transformative work.

  • Therapy sessions are typically 50 minutes. If you plan to submit superbills to your insurance, this is the standard session length most insurers reimburse.

    Longer sessions (75 to 90 minutes) are available upon request.

    Longer sessions allow us to go deeper, faster. With more time together, we spend energy staying connected to the core goals you have for therapy. This expanded space supports richer exploration, deeper nervous system regulation, and meaningful emotional shifts that are harder to reach in shorter sessions. It also creates room for genuine integration, so that insight turns into lasting change.

  • The length of treatment varies for each person and depends on your goals, needs, and readiness for change. Some clients find short-term work helpful, while others benefit from longer-term therapy to create deeper and lasting shifts.

    Typically, when clients engage in longer and more frequent sessions, they are able to reach their goals in a shorter amount of time.

    At the start of treatment, we’ll co-create a treatment plan together. We’ll discuss your progress regularly and collaborate on mapping next steps.

  • Yes, my practice is currently 100% video sessions. I use the secure telehealth platform Simple Practice. Clients must be within California to receive services.

  • Email me at evearbel.mft@gmail.com to schedule your free 15-minute consultation to explore if we would be a good fit to work together.

  • After our initial complimentary video consultation together, you will fill out some intake paperwork online, and we will choose your reserved weekly meeting time.

    I collect a detailed intake assessment the first session, and together we determine your goals for therapy and discuss the ways we can work together towards those goals.

    After those first few sessions, we will both confirm again whether or not it feels like the right match to work together. If either one of us decides that we are not a fit, then I will help connect you with appropriate referrals. If we decide to move forward together, then we will continue co-creating your vision for healing and transformation together, and check-in regularly about your progress. We will identify how you will know when your process is complete and you are ready to end this phase of therapy.

    Throughout our work together, my aim is to empower you with increased self-trust and inner safety. In order for shifts to emerge, I will both challenge you to grow and support your regulation. I will provide my insights, tools, and practices, and continuously encourage you to push back or correct me if I miss, since you are the ultimate expert in your own experience.

    Ending therapy is done intentionally and thoughtfully, providing space for closure and integration. If at any point you wish to terminate therapy, please discuss it with me and we can design your closure plan together. If for any reason I feel that our work is no longer benefitting you, I will involve you in the process, and facilitate connecting you with more relevant services.

Contact

Interested in working together? Contact me to schedule your free 15- minute consultation where we explore if we would be a good fit to work together. Please email me directly at evearbel.mft@gmail.com or fill out this form on the website. I look forward to hearing from you!