Trusting our innate
abilities to survive
The body and the mind move towards healing naturally.
Adriana is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) in Fort Worth that specializes in somatic treatment for trauma with military and high-stress populations.
Adriana has been a counselor in Texas since 2015. Therapy is a collaborative relationship between the counselor and the client to find the best healing approach for the individual. She became a yoga instructor in 2012, after her last military deployment to continue looking for a way to nurture her own growth and healing. It helped her work through trauma in the body that she didn’t realize she was still carrying. She decided to leave military service to get her graduate degree in counseling psychology with a specialty in forensic psychology. Adriana believes that individuals can naturally let their bodies and minds move towards healing in life and therapy can help. Through yoga, EMDR, somatic approaches, color and talk therapy; she is able to continue incorporating that holistic perspective to healing the past so we can live in the present.
Education and Certification
University of Minnesota Duluth, B.A.S.
Adler University Chicago, M.A. specialty in Forensic Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies, PhD in Somatic Psychology (expected completion 2026)
Professional certifications;Somatic Experiencing advanced training, EMDR trained, Yoga teacher 200 RYT, Psychotherapic yoga, and Emotional Transformative Therapy (ETT) level 2.
Somatic Workshops
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Nature of Healing Rogue
Healing is not a linear process but rather a journey that follows a winding path. It is a continuous cycle of growth and transformation that encompasses the physical, emotional, and spiritual realms. Just as the cycles of nature and the turning of the seasons, healing too has its own circular rhythm.
One of the fundamental principles of somatic therapy is that our bodies carry the imprints of past experiences, including traumatic ones. Memories and emotions can become trapped within our muscular and nervous systems, leading to chronic pain, tension, and emotional distress. Somatic therapy aims to bring these unresolved experiences to the surface and facilitates their release, allowing room for healing.
What do you need to survive?
My view of healing: It will be a continual cycle through life.
Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us.
-Pema Chödrön