Ease. Balance. Live your authenticity.
Counseling for Midlife Women
Somatic therapy for the woman who has held it all together and is ready to feel like herself again.
You’re caught between who you’ve always been for others and who you want to be for yourself.
You already have a lot of awareness but can still find yourself impacted by daily stress, past experiences, and trauma. It often feels like you’re at or beyond your capacity- your energy is drained, your resilience is running out. You feel overwhelmed, overextended, your body is changing, and you’re wondering how to best care for yourself in this phase of life. You’re ready to find more ease, balance, creativity; breathe a deeper breath; live a life that expresses your own authenticity. I can help you get there.
I work holistically with a focus on Somatic Experiencing® to support deep lasting healing in your nervous system, and help you find peace and alignment between body and mind.
People often ask, "What does Ultreia even mean?" Good question. It's an old Spanish or Latin word, depending who you ask, used on the Camino de Santiago. It means onward, beyond, or keep going. Ultreia is used as a greeting, a send-off, or a word of encouragement when things get hard.
I opened my practice a few years after walking my own Camino, and the word stuck with me. It felt like the right metaphor for the transitions healing asks of us; the ones already behind you, and the ones still ahead.
You've probably been through a lot already. And you've made it through, every time. Let's move through this next bit together.
I’m Alicia.
I'll help you feel safe enough to do the deep work, and I’ll be with you the whole way. Together, we'll move toward more ease, in your own time.
I work with midlife women looking for a deeper experience in therapy — not just coping strategies, but real change in how safe and steady you feel in your own body. My clients come to me carrying trauma, chronic stress, overfunctioning, or burnout, often alongside the identity shifts of perimenopause and looking for a seasoned therapist. With more than 20 years of experience in the mental health field and specialized training in trauma and somatic-based work, I also happen to be navigating midlife myself. I don't just understand this stage of life clinically; I'm also living it.
My approach is to work gently and teach you to communicate with your nervous system directly, so you can stop overriding your instincts and deepen your self-trust. You don't have to keep figuring this out alone. We can move forward together.
Trauma and Stress
If you find yourself feeling affected by difficult past experiences or are living through high stress and in need of support this space is for you. Somatic Experiencing® offers a gentle long lasting way through so you can move forward as your fullest self.
Overfunctioning and Burnout
You’ve always held it all together-career, household, aging parents, growing kids, relationships, or doing it all on your own without a partner to share the load. You don’t have to keep pouring from an empty cup-let’s help you refill it.
Perimenopause
Perimenopause can be about more than changes in your physiology and mood. It can also be about the shedding of past versions of yourself that no longer serve you and the emergence of a sovereign woman.