Hello, wanderer

I’m Sherry. I am a lover, a warrior, and a guide for transformational healing through somatic parts work coaching and craniosacral therapy.

Early trauma and a sensitive nervous system meant that I traversed decades of hardship and suffering on my way to developing a great capacity for the joys and pains of the human experience. I now want to share the wisdom I’ve gained and embodied through having lived it and to support your process with the modalities that have proven time and time again to be the most effective for healing limiting belief systems and entrenched somatic patterning that keep us stuck.

Over the years, I’ve been held and have held myself through so many challenging experiences of alchemical warfare with my inner parts—sources of immense tension, stuckness, and weight that held me back from the freedom, joy, and sense of belonging to myself and to the world that is my birthright.

15+ years of Buddhist and Tantric study and practice permeate my approach and sensibility. I care deeply about being in right relationship with all of the forces of nature within myself, with other beings, and with all of life. I see you as belonging to the entire ecosystem of life too, and I also see and behold you as an entire ecosystem and world unto yourself—alive, precious, beautiful, and whole.

The Sensorium is the meeting place between our worlds.
The Sensorium is the new world we create together.

Reclaim your self

As a queer person, a POC, and an immigrant who has navigated the internalized pressures, shadows, and belief systems of a rigid and restrictive nation of origin, I intimately understand the experience of marginalization and difference. I am especially called to support those who have felt historically disempowered and unseen because I have been there too—to heal out of survival patterning, to be witnessed and celebrated in your expansive spirit, and to awaken and carry forth the unique magic you are here to bring. May it be so. 🙏

Offerings

I hold a clear, attuned, and deeply grounded presence for transmuting energetic, psychic processes from the subtle to the complex and intense. I hold a container of clarity and compassion to safely take you to your edges, and beyond, including with:

• deep and difficult existential and psychospiritual questions

• inner fragmentation

• grief, heartache, and despair

• anger and rage

• shame and fear

• attachment wounding and repair in relationship

• PTSD

• stubborn and stuck trauma patterns and outdated conditioning

• and the full gamut of ordinary and extraordinary human emotions.

My approach is a unique integration of somatic parts work coaching and craniosacral therapy, guided by the signals, rhythms, and pacing of your own physical and energy body. In concert, these modalities create new pathways of meaningfulness and resonance in your system, connecting the poetry of your body with the deep treasures of your soul.

The “somatic” aspect of the parts work coaching means that we relate to the parts through how they appear in your imagination and the movements in your energy body—psycho-technologies with roots in Tantra and Tibetan Buddhism that can transform your relationship with your inner landscape. The effect is that you become both less identified and blended with the parts but also more intimate, safe, and at home with your body and your process, developing nourishing relationships with your parts and, in turn, liberating them into the dance of energies that flow through you.

Craniosacral therapy (available through in-person sessions in Los Angeles, with or without parts work) is a gentle form of bodywork that releases deep-seated blocks and tensions in the subtle nervous system, freeing long-held patterns and restoring the body’s natural, healthy flow and functioning. This therapy also helps ground you in your body, leaving you feeling clear, centered, and better equipped to navigate the challenges you came in with.

I've found that pairing hands-on craniosacral therapy with somatic parts work helps the energetic movements of the parts get tracked and released more effectively than with either modality alone.

I will also dynamically bring in other ways of working with what's arising into our sessions, including other meditative and energy body practices and suggestions for creative and emotional expression.

Let's explore together...

I offer single sessions as well as ongoing engagements to deepen into more trust, relationship, and longer-term processes. Oftentimes parts need some space and time to show up and to feel safe enough to be related to before they can be worked with and eventually loosen their solidity. Somatic parts work sessions can be conducted online, while craniosacral therapy sessions, whether alone or combined with parts work, are only available in person.

I currently use a sliding scale and am happy to work with you to make my services accessible.

My aim is to help you to become free, to connect you to your unique, joyful essence-nature, and to learn to trust the ground of your own unassailable inner knowing.

My coaching training is through Aletheia Integral Unfoldment Coaching
My craniosacral therapy training is through IPSB

Tools for emotional digestion and healing your deepest wounding

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My ethos of care

I’ve developed a keen intuition for understanding and homing in on the root source of presenting issues and symptoms, knowing things are much more complex, nuanced, and beautiful than how they may appear.

I hold strongly the value that you are an empowered, wise being with capacity beyond what you may know. I see and honor your autonomy and inner wisdom; I may guide you toward finding and trusting your center, but never prescribe your path. I also value cultivating a field of presence and trust through slowness, being vs. doing, listening to subtleties and mystery, inviting the unknown and the unseen...

I often take an archetypal, mythopoetic, soulful orientation, holding your process as an unfolding expression of the cosmic dance of energies playing through you. This view imbues the process with real beauty and depth, and also makes the challenges feel a little less personal, a little less lonely.

Having experienced my own struggles with shame in the past, I create a space of total compassion and non-judgment, knowing firsthand how isolating and hidden emotional suffering can be and how overwhelming certain existential dilemmas can seem. Shadows and the unconscious need not be dark, "bad", or scary—they want to be seen, for light to be shone on them, and ultimately, to be integrated.

With the right support and presence, even the most painful and entrenched wounds can come out of hiding and transform, and the trauma and conditioning that keep us small and stuck can really be set free.

Orientations

• Love

• Empowerment

• Liberation

• Non-judgmental curiosity and openness

• Possibility

• Slowness and spaciousness

• Reverence

• Feeling-sensing-knowing over thinking

• Presence, rooted into the depths of the earth

• 100% LGBTQ+ and BIPOC affirming

Sherry's work is profound, and time spent with her in session feels sacred. I found her union of somatic parts work and craniosacral therapy to be an innovative approach to healing, unlike anything I have experienced over many years of exploring various modalities. More saliently, her practice is deep, intelligent, and effective. With meticulous verbal guidance and gentle touch, Sherry expertly guided me in confronting memories and repressed emotions with beautifully precise insights, observations, or questions for deeper inquiry.

In other moments of intensity, her hand resting on my shoulder or the knowledge of her presence alone made me feel incredibly safe. I felt expertly held, knowing that whatever emerged, Sherry was keenly attuned and equipped to meet the needs of my process. While there were instances of challenge, a current of potent sensitivity and love defined the quality of Sherry's container. Our session birthed a life-changing shift in my perspective, and I will walk with that new awareness forever.

Rob G., Los Angeles

LOVE FOR MY WORK

Fertile seeds and mycelial threads in the field…

• Insight and metta meditation practice

• Soulmaking Dharma practice, aka somatic-imaginal practice via the energy body

• Tantric Shaivism nondual awakening practices

• Relatefulness/circling

• Co-facilitator of Rob Burbea’s Seeing That Frees book club, in-person in Los Angeles

• Forays into plant medicines and entheogens

• Cold swims into the void

15+ years of meditation practice and spiritual spelunking

Group facilitation for structured connection circles and emergent intersubjective, transpersonal containers

• Co-facilitator of weekly Authentic Relating groups in my home in Los Angeles

• Co-facilitator of an online Collective Presencing deep dive exploring stories in love, sexuality, eros, and desire, Breaking the Taboo

• Co-organizer and co-facilitator of an online conference called Reimagining the Future of Work, 2024

• Longtime practitioner and spaceholder of the emergent we-space practice of Collective Presencing

Continue your journey into The Sensorium...

Transformative, embodied healing and empowerment for tender, unique souls, guided with care, clarity, and presence.

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