Roxanne Ahmadpour (she/her)

My Background and Approach

I am a Naturopathic Doctor with a Masters degree in Integrative Mental Health and advanced training in somatic therapies. My approach is rooted in Hakomi mindfulness centered somatic psychotherapy, and informed by Attachment theory, Internal Family Systems, yoga therapy, and polyvagal theory. With deep care, gentle support, safety, and earned trust, I support folks in building a connection with themselves and their inner world through mindfulness and somatic embodiment practices. Together we deepen curiosity, explore, and slowly uncover rigid patterns of thinking and feeling, hidden and disowned parts of the self, and impulses and stories long held in the body. We hold this together with spaciousness and tenderness while offering an opportunity for new information and possibilities to come in and integrate. As pain is tended, compassion grows. While this can be deep and powerful work, I aim to bring a sense of humility, lightness, humor, and ease in to sessions.

My Values as a Therapist

Healing and growth is in our nature. Ease, a felt sense of safety, and belonging is our birthright. The ever present forces of colonialism, capitalism, and cis-white-hetero-patriarchy have impacted us all resulting in intergenerational trauma patterns that we carry in our bodies and act out unknowingly upon ourselves and others. I value moving beyond examining the personal and including layers of the interpersonal, the systemic, the cultural, and the historical contexts in which our behaviors and beliefs are rooted into my work with people. I deeply value our interconnectedness with nature, the environment, and world around us. I support my clients in connecting with their own nature, as well as the natural world around them, and to this end am excited to begin offering outdoor and 'walk and talk sessions'. My passion for this work is rooted in the promise that as we all heal and grow, so do our relationships, communities, society, and our planet.