Work with your body - instead of against it
Practices &
Skill-building
to experience relief & change
Defining Goals &
Nervous System Education
to feel clear & purposeful
Resolution &
Healing
to reclaim your life
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Understand how your nervous system influences everything — stress, pain, relationships, and emotional patterns
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Leave sessions with a clear map of what's happening inside you and why
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Notice — often within a single session — moments of settling, safety, or ease that you didn't think were possible
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Build a personal toolkit of practices you can use between sessions, not just in the session
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Feel old tension, pain, or numbness begin to release from your body
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Reconnect with sensations of safety, groundedness, and even pleasure — things trauma and pain often mute
Feel at home in your body - maybe for the first time
Find safety that lives in your bones - not just your mind
Rediscover joy, pleasure and genuine connection
-often within the first session or two-
Asa Dean SEP LMT
move beyond managing
If you’re here, chances are that you are dealing with some ongoing distress that traditional talk therapy or conventional medicine has not been able to resolve beyond perhaps providing you with some not-super-helpful diagnosis.
My name is Asa and I'd like to offer you a new way of exploring your challenges and some different ideas about what might be needed to heal.
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10 + years experience
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100s of clients helped
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10,000 + hrs practice
Take your support to the next level and reap the rewards of a deeper commitment to your transformation.
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1 on 1 sessions
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Educational videos
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Accountability support
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Custom guided practices
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Session recaps & highlights
I employ a variety of methods and frameworks in my work with clients including: Somatic Experiencing, Pain Reprocessing Therapy, Interpersonal Neurobiology, and NARM.
The primary goal of therapy is
to learn how to tolerate pleasure
-Alexander Lowen
After enough time of living with a stressed out nervous system our bodies begin to shut out more and more of life, including the very experiences that can help us to regulate and heal. Before trying to feel the intensity of pain and trauma, it's important to learn how to take in the 'good' moments of life, even the teeny-tiny things.
So many of our deepest hurts are relational in nature - much of our deepest healing occurs in relationship. Taking time to explore novel and supportive ways of relating allows for self-defeating patterns to be replaced with healthy boundaries, access to co-regulation, and more vitality.
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