Integrative Psychotherapy & Somatic Breathwork
I’m Amy — a psychotherapist, breathwork facilitator, and entrepreneur.
Welcome in — I’m glad you stopped by.
The Softening is an intentional space for self-exploration, healing, and empowerment founded specifically for new moms, creatives, and female entrepreneurs. As a therapist and human, I get it. Navigating our lives, especially when we’re doing All The Things™, is a recipe for burnout. And trying to carve out space for healing and growth can feel unrealistic. But you, too, deserve a soft place to land.
My approach to therapy is integrative and relational, with a side of somatic. We’ll lean into curiosity, incorporating parts work, narrative techniques, and embodiment practices (including breathwork) from a trauma-informed lens. Most importantly, our work is collaborative and deeply personal — we’ll find what feels aligned for you.
Therapy is a space for you to be messy, complex, human. If you’re ready for a season of growth, let’s chat.
While I’m based in Encinitas, California, I’m available to work virtually with clients who live in the state of California.
Breathwork
Psychotherapy
Ketamine-Assisted
The Process
A free 20-minute consultation call to explore your needs and see if we’re the right fit. If we’re not a fit, I promise to help you find someone that is.
CONNECT
We’ll begin with a 75-minute intake session. This space allows us to build safety, explore the different parts of you, and start to explore where we’d like to focus our work together. Like all relationships, comfort in therapy can take some time. You set the pace & I’ll follow.
BEGIN
BUILD
Together, we’ll build a personalized blueprint for our work. This process is anything but rigid, so we’ll be fluid with our intentions and check in regularly. We may integrate somatic breathwork or explore referrals to other practitioners (i.e a Naturopathic doctor for hormone regulation)
PRACTICE
A season of deeper work: weekly sessions, reading, practices outside of session, and deep exploration in our time together.
Just like life, our growth doesn’t follow a linear path. That said, in this phase of our work, we’ll take note of your growth (subtle or grand in nature, that’s not really the point) and recalibrate our intentions.
EVOLVE
EBB
Also just like life, therapy comes in waves. At this point in our work, we might decrease session cadence gradually, pause, or close this chapter of work together.
