Rachel is a Somatic Trauma Practitioner, PNE Teacher and writer. She holds certifications in Somatic Release Technique (SRT), the Points Holding Process, and PsychoNeuroEnergetics (PNE) through the Somatic Institute in Los Angeles, and earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of San Francisco. Her debut novel, The Fifth Wall (Black Sparrow Books, 2017), was praised by Chris Kraus in i-D Magazine as part of “a new and exciting tradition of female philosophical fiction.”

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Rachel's work bridges body, mind, and consciousness, shaped by a lifelong inquiry into the gut-heart-brain disconnection caused by trauma. After navigating years of chronic inflammation, full-body paralysis, depression, anxiety, and D-PTSD, Rachel explored a wide range of alternative healing modalities—including Alexander Technique, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and intensive plant medicine work with fifth-lineage Shipibo healers in Pucallpa, Peru. This path ultimately led her to PNE, a body-based approach that facilitates deep and lasting nervous system transformation and reconnection with the Self.

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Rachel’s approach integrates the principles of PNE with practices from Vedic meditation, non-dualism, craniosacral unwinding, plant medicine explorations, and polyvagal regulation, informed by the teachings of Dr. Stanley Rosenberg and Thor Philipsen, DO. She also draws from somatic techniques rooted in the work of Dr. Peter Levine, helping clients access deeper layers of embodied presence and repair.

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In addition to her private practice, Rachel facilitates somatic, grief, and creative writing recovery groups at inpatient rehabilitation centers in Los Angeles. She also offers Jungian-influenced Somatic Dreamwork sessions via Zoom, and has trained in Transactional Analysis at the Southeast Institute for Group and Family Therapy. She recently completed a six-month apprenticeship at the Psychedelic Somatic Institute, with a focus on supporting clients with complex developmental PTSD through psychobiological resolution.

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Rachel proudly works with people of all gender identities, sexual orientations, and cultural backgrounds.