Therapy with Lari
Somatic psychotherapy for self-aware women navigating chronic health symptoms, overthinking, people pleasing, eating disorders and the exhaustion of always being the responsible one.
Together, we slow things down, and begin building a relationship with yourself rooted in safety, trust, flexibility, and compassion.
Therapy that considers mind AND body
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Therapy that considers mind AND body 〰️
You may find yourself struggling with:
Living in your head
Feeling disconnected from your body, overanalyzing yourself, or struggling to access what you feel and need.
Over-responsibility
Feeling responsible for keeping things together, anticipating problems, or believing it is your job to make sure everyone is okay.
People pleasing
Being highly attuned to other people’s emotions, avoiding disappointment, overexplaining yourself, or feeling guilty when you set a boundary.
Chronic health symptoms
Navigating the emotional impact of chronic pain, recurring symptoms, medical uncertainty, reproductive health concerns, or other ongoing health experiences.
Perfectionism and high achievement
Holding yourself to high standards, struggling to slow down, or feeling like your worth is connected to how much you can manage.
Nervous system dysregulation
Feeling on edge, overwhelmed, shut down, disconnected, hypervigilant, or unable to fully settle and rest.
Trauma
Understanding how past experiences may continue to shape the way you relate to yourself, your body, and other people.
Disordered eating and body image
Navigating a relationship with food and your body that may be shaped by control, fear, criticism, or disconnection.
Together, we tend to your needs through an individualized and holistic lens, integrating IFS, somatic therapy, embodiment, and practical tools that help you develop more flexibility in the way you relate to yourself and the world around you.
What working together can look like:
You are self-aware, you may already know that:
“I people please because I’m afraid of disappointing people.”
“I overthink because uncertainty makes me anxious.”
“I became independent because I learned not to rely on other people.”
That understanding is meaningful and necessary but awareness alone won’t help us feel unstuck.
Together we would move towards gently exploring:
What happens inside of you when you imagine disappointing someone?
What does your body do when you don’t have an answer?
What part of you feels responsible for making everything okay?
What would happen if you stopped managing for a moment?
This is where IFS and somatic work can help us move from only understanding your patterns to actually experiencing and relating to them differently.
Not by forcing them away.
But by becoming curious about what they are protecting and helping your system learn that there may be other ways to respond.
How to work with me?
I offer virtual therapy for clients throughout New York and Connecticut, with in-person sessions available from my Hartsdale, NY office.
My practice is designed for clients seeking specialized, individualized therapy that integrates traditional talk therapy with IFS, somatic work, trauma-informed care, and nervous-system support.
Our sessions are rooted in:
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Compassion
Meeting yourself where you are instead of constantly asking yourself to be doing better, pushing harder, or needing less.
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Curiosity
Learning to become curious about your thoughts, emotions, symptoms, and protective responses rather than immediately fighting against them.
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Honesty
Creating space for the complicated truths; the anger, grief, fear, resentment, relief, exhaustion, and hope that can coexist within healing.
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Empathy
Being deeply witnessed without needing to minimize, explain, or prove the reality of what you're experiencing.
“I will not rescue you. For you are not powerless. I will not fix you. For you are not broken. I will not heal you. For I see you, in your wholeness. I will walk with you through the darkness, as you remember your light.”
— A medicine woman’s prayer