What is Yoga Therapy?
Most people are carrying something they’ve been managing alone for a while, and Yoga Therapy provides tools and practices to change that.
Yoga therapy is one-to-one work that treats you as a whole person rather than a symptom in isolation. We look at where you are now and what life would look like if everything were in alignment.
The tools we use to move towards that aligned goal are wider than most people expect: movement from gentle to vigorous, breathwork, meditation and visualization, postures aimed at something specific, and practices that have nothing to do with a yoga mat.
I’m a yoga therapist certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists (C-IAYT). I work with people of all genders online from anywhere and in person in Valencia, Spain. Every session is free of diet culture: nothing here is about making you smaller.
What do clients work on?
Most of my work is with anxiety, depression and overwhelm — the state of being wound too tight to rest or too flat to start.
If you’re living with something that isn’t going to change — a diagnosis, a prognosis, a body that works differently now — yoga therapy won’t alter it. What it can do is help you be present in your life while it’s happening. That work is some of the most worthwhile I do.
I also work with:
- Back pain, post-rehabilitation and reconditioning
- Perimenopause and perinatal changes
- Grief and major life transitions
- Building or deepening a spiritual practice, including alongside an existing religious one
- Body image, and undoing what diet culture taught you
How does it work?
We start with a 90-minute intake session. You’ll fill out a detailed intake form beforehand, so we can spend the session itself on you rather than on history-taking. I’ll ask about what’s going on physically, intellectually, emotionally and spiritually, the four areas we will explore, and we’ll set specific goals together. That assessment is at the heart of our work together: reading what’s actually happening in your body and your life, and building practice that’s safe and right for you in particular.
From there, most people work with me for six to twelve sessions though every situation is unique. Each meeting runs 45 to 60 minutes, and you’ll leave with practices to work on in between. Recorded practices, reading and other resources designed for you are shared in documents that stay yours, during and after our work together.
Online sessions are on Proton Meet. In-person sessions are only available in Valencia.
Yoga therapy works well alongside talk therapy and physical therapy. It doesn’t replace either, and if what you need sits outside my scope, I’ll tell you and help you find it.
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Not sure yet? Book a free 15-minute call and ask me anything.
Ready to begin? Book a 90-minute intake session: in US dollars · in euros
Who you are isn’t a problem to solve
Some people spend the first twenty minutes of any appointment explaining themselves. Why the emergency contact is a girlfriend. Why the pronouns are not a phase. Which partner is the real one. Why the bruises are fine. Why the knee pain isn’t about the weight. Why “at your age” isn’t an answer. By the time that’s done, there’s no room left for what they came about.
You won’t have to do that here.
I work with queer, trans, poly, kink and fat adults of any age (18+) on whatever you’ve come for — anxiety, back pain, grief, anything. Your life isn’t the problem we’re solving, and you don’t need to justify it before we start.
Sexual function
This is work I take on directly. Desire, arousal, pain, disconnection, the fear of one’s own body. These are common, and people are routinely told to relax and go home.
What yoga therapy brings to issues around sexual function is specific: nervous system regulation, breath, energy flow, body awareness, and attention to the shame that has usually layered itself on top. That combination does real work.
What it isn’t: I’m not a sex therapist, a psychotherapist or a physician, and yoga therapy is not clinical sex therapy. Yoga therapy and clinical sex therapy sit well alongside each other.
If you need a clinical sex therapist, let me know and I’ll help you find someone licensed where you live.
What it costs
Intake session: 90 (dollars or euros). Ongoing sessions: 60.
Prices are the same number in dollars or euros. You pay in your own currency and I absorb the difference, because where you happen to live shouldn’t change what this costs you.
Money doesn’t belong as a barrier to care. A sliding scale is available, and you don’t need to explain or prove your finances to me.
Group Yoga Therapy
Group yoga therapy runs as topic-specific series over eight weeks, on a theme such as anxiety, grief or disordered eating. There’s power in working alongside other people facing the same thing.
Each participant has two one-to-one sessions, an intake before the group begins and a goals review after it ends. Confidentiality between participants is required. Attendance at every session is expected since each week builds on the last.
No series is scheduled at the moment. If you’d like to be told when one is, or there’s a theme you want to see, email me and I’ll keep you posted.
Questions
How is this different from a yoga class?
A good class eases everyday aches and lifts a mood. Yoga therapy goes further because it’s built around you after a proper assessment, and because it draws on all eight limbs of yoga rather than poses (asana) alone.
Does this replace my doctor or my therapist?
No, and it isn’t meant to. Yoga therapy sits alongside other care — talk therapy, physical therapy, medical treatment, clinical sex therapy. Many people do both kinds of work at once, and together they often reach further than either on its own. Where what you need sits outside my scope, I’ll tell you and help you find the right practitioner.
How many sessions will I need?
We’ll work that out at intake. Most people do six to twelve in a cycle.
Do I need to be flexible, fit, or experienced?
No. Yoga therapy works with people who move a great deal and with people who don’t move at all. What you need is something you want to work on.
Where do sessions happen?
Online, via Proton Meet, anywhere in the world. In person in Valencia, Spain.
Does insurance cover this?
Yoga therapy is not covered by insurance, so sessions are paid directly.
What if the cost is out of reach?
Tell me. You don’t need to explain or prove your finances to me. Keeping this work accessible matters to me, so if cost is the thing standing in your way, say so on a free 15-minute call or email me and we’ll discuss sliding scale options.
¿Hablas español?
Todavía estoy aprendiendo; estoy en el nivel A2/B1. No estoy segura de si eso es suficiente para ofrecer terapia, pero si hablas un poco de inglés, podemos intentarlo. Reserva una cita para una videollamada de 15 minutos y veremos qué podemos hacer juntos.
I have another question not covered here. Can we talk before I book anything?
Of course. Book a free 15-minute call.