A life of beauty & connection
Somatic Therapy & Trauma Healing for nervous system restoration, attachment healing & interpersonal growth
Somatic Experiencing 𖣐 Craniosacral Bodywork 𖣐 Land & Spirit 𖣐 Grief Rituals
SEP™ serving Sebastopol, Santa Rosa, West County & remote clients across the globe
Welcome, I’m Coby
I’ve spent over 25 years creating healing spaces for individuals and communities, and at the root of my work is a belief in our ability to make beauty our of all our experiences and establish meaningful connection with self and others.
As a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I've been blessed to study with the pioneers of this field—Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, and master teachers like Ariel Giarretto, Joshua Sylvae, and Efu Nyaki who opened my eyes to transgenerational trauma.
My spiritual path runs equally deep. I've studied with Martín Prechtel, Malidoma Somé, Sobonfu Somé, and elders from the Dagara tradition who welcomed me into their understanding of ritual and ancestral healing. Keith and Shane Pashé from Dakota Tipi tradition have been my teachers for 12.
These relationships aren't casual—they've given me explicit permission to share certain practices, a responsibility I hold with deep reverence and continued reciprocity.
Now I guide people on their unique, integrated healing journeys by offering:
𖣐 Somatic Experiencing Sessions and Craniosacral Bodywork to help your nervous system feel safe again
𖣐 Ritual Containers to honor life transitions and grief
𖣐 Ancestral Healing to break generational patterns
𖣐 Connection to Land and Spirit to remember your place in the larger web
𖣐 Justice-Oriented Healing that acknowledges how systems of oppression live in our bodies
“More often than not, we think pain is a signal that we must stop, rather than find its source. Our souls aspire toward growth… In this context, a body in pain is a soul in longing.”
—MALIDOMA SOMÉ
Offerings
Individual Sessions
Somatic Experiencing Sessions
Nervous system support for anxiety, panic, depression, attachment & stored trauma. Together, we meet your nervous system and build capacity for safety, getting to the root that lives beyond words. Book a session ࿋
Craniosacral Bodywork
Hands-on nervous system restoration and trauma healing to rebuild trust with your body. Book a session ࿋
Youth & Family Support
Age-appropriate nervous system work for kids and teens. Book a session ࿋
Community, Land & Spirit Healing
Divination & Ritual Guidance
Divinations, ceremony and spiritual guidance for life transitions. Book a session ࿋
Land Walk & Wild Foraging
Somatic work on the land, relating to your other than human kin. Practice sustainable harvesting and land stewardship. Book a session ࿋
Community Grief Rituals
Seasonal ceremonies to witness and transform loss together in a shared, collective space of healing and holding. Learn about next ritual ࿋
The Integrated Path
A healing space built for you
This monthly container weaves together Somatic Experiencing, bodywork, ritual, land connection, and ancestral guidance into one adaptive practice, co-created with you.
Transformation in Body & Spirit
Perhaps you’re aware that the challenges you face are deeper than what words can reach. Despite your best efforts, you keep repeating patterns you swore you’d break and your nervous system feels stuck in old responses, even when you intellectually understand where they came from. That is what this work is for.
Or maybe you’ve been dealing with chronic pain or illness that can’t fully be explained. Or sense of disconnection from your body. Or the land. From your own intuition. This work is also for that.
Our traumas are rooted beyond the mind, they reside in the body and spirit, so the healing happens there too. That is what I offer, across multiple holistic modalities that I have been studied and cultivating with deep reverence my whole adult life.
Some folks will find what they need in a single practice: Somatic Experiencing, Craniosacral Bodywork, Divination, or a Community Grief Ritual. Others may want to weave it all together.
Either way, it all starts with discovering what your unique system is asking for and holding space for the transformation you are ready for.
Serving West Sonoma County & Remotely
Certified & Trauma Trained
SEP™ certified. Trained directly with Peter Levine and Gabor Maté in nervous system regulation, restoration, and healing.
Integrated Approach
Somatic, ritual, bodywork, and land-based practices, woven to fit your unique system and needs.
Collective Justice & Healing
Trauma-informed work that looks at oppression within systems and structures as harms the body holds, helping you face and heal traumas that go beyond just your individual history.
Testimonials
Coby is a wonderful therapist. He is empathic, intuitive, and helps you stay present by modeling behaviors and practices. He listens extremely well, understands dreams, and also works on my body on his table for 15 to 20 minutes using cranial-sacral skills and acupressure.
Raphael B. 𖣐
Integration Matters
Deeply Supportive
Coby is an attuned and deeply supportive practitioner. Highly recommend 1 on 1 sessions as well as his community grief work.
Shawn S. 𖣐
Profound Impact
Coby has had a profound impact on my life. Coby has a rare intuition for seeing you as you are, with genuine compassion and presence. He’s helped me discover ways of being and knowing beyond the mind: listening to my body, trusting my own experience, and making space for what can’t always be explained.
James R. 𖣐
The Most Significant Year
The healing that I am undergoing is far beyond anything I have experienced in the past, and it has also greatly supported my spiritual practice. My depression has greatly lifted (which is more amazing than I can put into words), and my anxiety is starting to make some headway.
Coby has a way of making me feel safe and allowing me to feel more deeply and to be open with what I am feeling. He is the most caring and open health care provider I have ever been to. My wife praises the day I found him.
Rick B. 𖣐
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Old Holdings Released
Somatic work with Coby has been incredibly effective, much more than the many years of talk therapy that I did prior to Coby. I feel more grounded, clear on my boundaries, and am more aware of what activates my parasympathetic nervous system more than at any other point in my 56 years.
Coby has this way about him; gently and respectfully creating a space where my mind, heart, and body imperceptibly know it’s safe to be vulnerable.
Angela C. 𖣐
A Delight
Our sessions are founded on his unique ability to co-regulate. I find myself making huge, honest, and expansive shifts when we are together simply because he can hold our nervous systems in harmony.
We talk a little, feel into the body a lot, and sync our systems with the birds, trees and other creatures near us. It has been healing to feel in my body that there is another way beyond the constant bracing, clenching and constriction. He has shown me on a visceral level new ways of being that feel liberating and easeful.
Kate E. 𖣐
Free Consultation Call
Schedule a free 20-minute consultation to explore working with me in Sebastopol CA for Somatic Experiencing Therapy, Craniosacral Bodywork, Land & Spirit, Grief Rituals or remotely in sessions online
For fellow grief workers, ritualists, somatic practitioners who would like to consult with me about their practice, please schedule a Practitioner Consultation.