Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy · Bay Area, CA
A sustained therapeutic container combining somatic depth, medicine work, and 16 years of clinical experience — for the high-achiever ready to stop managing and start transforming.
Somatic Intelligence Practitioner
Trauma Alchemist
Psychedelic Integration Architect
A Note on the Work
— Tania, holding you tenderly
The Trauma Treated Tenderly Healing Path
Over years of working with clients, I've noticed that most journeys unfold through five natural phases.
You may move forward, backward, or revisit earlier stages.
But recognizing the phase you're in can illuminate the next step.
Phase 1
Many clients arrive highly functional but deeply disconnected — from their body, their pleasure, their emotional landscape. The first step is restoring safety in the nervous system.
Pathways in
Phase 2
Once safety is established, something new appears — longing. Clients begin to sense the life they actually want, creative impulses returning, a deeper curiosity about pleasure and connection.
Offerings that support this phase
Phase 3
Many believe trauma must be processed first. In reality, it often only emerges after the nervous system feels safe enough to experience it. This is where deeper material surfaces — and where the skill of the practitioner becomes crucial.
Containers supporting this phase
Phase 4
As individual trauma resolves, healing naturally expands into relationships. Clients begin asking how to bring this work into their partnership — practicing repair, vulnerability, and intimacy in real time.
Offerings supporting this phase
Phase 5
At this stage, healing becomes integration. The work is less about processing trauma and more about living fully — from the body, with freedom, with trust in oneself.
Integration support
Our Medicine
Each modality is not a standalone offering.
They are woven together inside a single
therapeutic relationship — yours.
The somatic foundation woven through every session. SE builds nuanced awareness of how your nervous system holds and releases trauma — preparing and nourishing the deeper medicine work.
Learn MoreRelaxes the amygdala and opens a gentle observer space. Ideal for those who loop, ruminate, or need a somatic reset. One hour shelf life. Low side effects. A perfect first entry.
Learn MoreSomatic-forward trauma clearance outside the story. Clears in 1–3 sessions. No rehearsing the narrative — only the body's held version of it.
Learn MoreWhat makes this container singular. SE combined with the therapeutic relationship — present inside your journey, targeting dissociation, repairing attachment in real time.
Learn MoreSomatic Experiencing is what I call the somatic DBT of the body. While cognitive approaches focus on the mind, SE instills awareness of triggers at a nuanced somatic level — teaching the nervous system its own language.
SE is woven into every part of my work — my Ketamine sessions, my EMDR, my integration work. My clients' SE practice is what prepares, reinforces, maintains, and nourishes everything we achieve in session. It is the soil in which all other healing grows.
Particularly well-suited for
Somatic Experiencing Practitioner · Trained under Peter Levine's lineage
The body knows the way out. SE teaches you to listen.
Ketamine was first developed in the 1960s as an anesthetic and has been used globally since — in emergency rooms and hospitals worldwide, including in pediatric surgery. The World Health Organization lists it as an essential medicine. Its safety profile is exceptional.
In our container, I use microdosed Ketamine within the PSI (Psychedelic Somatic Institute) protocol. This medicine's superpower is relaxing the amygdala — creating an observer space from which long-entrenched triggers can finally be met without overwhelm.
Options range from subtle daily micro-dosing, to micro-dosing during session, to our full 3-day Ketamine Intensive. Shelf life of one hour. Low side effects. An ideal first entry into the psychedelic container.
Particularly well-suited for
Shelf life · Low side effects · Ideal first medicine container
We let the body not the mind lead. A bottoms-up model where the body speaks first.
My brand of EMDR combines traditional bilateral stimulation protocols with a deeper somatic focus. Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) layers on top — working more intuitively, somatically, and outside the story. This hybrid allows us to release the narrative stored in the body rather than rehearsing the cognitive version of it.
When a trauma memory is frozen in the right brain — the pre-verbal, sensorial, body-memory side — traditional talk therapy cannot reach it. EMDR + ART creates bilateral movement that allows the frozen memory to complete its processing cycle.
Clients leave more resourced and anchored than with traditional EMDR. Trauma clears in 1–3 sessions instead of the usual 3–10.
Particularly well-suited for
Sessions to clear a trauma vs. the typical 3–10 with traditional EMDR
Outside the story. Inside the body. Where the work actually lives.
The PSI (Psychedelic Somatic Institute) protocol is what makes this container singular. It combines Somatic Experiencing and the full weight of the therapeutic relationship — so that the therapist is truly present inside your journey. Not watching. Not waiting. Inside.
The PSI model is deeply relational and embodied. While many other protocols ask clients to travel alone, clients in this container feel accompanied throughout. Presence, therapeutic touch, and the full toolkit of EMDR and Somatic Experiencing are available at every moment of the journey.
Aimed at illuminating dissociation — and disabling the strategies we use to avoid or circumvent stored, unresolved somatic memory — this protocol creates a carefully scaffolded container in which we pause all purposeful movement and simply listen for what the body has been holding.
Particularly well-suited for
Psychedelic Somatic Institute protocol · Relational · Embodied · Inside the journey
For 90 minutes, we allow what has never had space to surface. The therapist is not outside the door. She is inside the room with you.
The House With No Mirror
Achievement formed. Competence formed. A life that looked, from the outside, like everything it was supposed to be.
But the inner mirror — the one that reflects identity back to itself — was often missing. The self that formed was shaped by what the world required, not by what was real.
At some point the nervous system stops performing and starts asking for something deeper. A return to the self that never fully had space to emerge.
Who This Is For
Start Here
90-Minute Identity & Nervous System Mapping
Before committing to a longer container, begin here. A comprehensive map of the patterns shaping your success, your relationships, and your inner world — with a clear pathway forward.
One 90-minute session · Applied toward any intensive container
Book Your Mirror SessionWhat You Receive
High performers are accustomed to strategy. The Mirror Session gives you exactly that — a clear clinical picture of where your nervous system has been, what it has been protecting, and what a meaningful next step looks like for your specific system.
The Transformation Path
Healing is cumulative. Each container builds on the last — one therapist, one unbroken arc, one guide who carries your full history into every session. Many clients begin with Catalyst and move deeper as the work calls them forward.
Interrupt survival patterns and begin reconnecting with your authentic self. Targeted excavation of a defined set of somatic symptoms with clear, measurable goals.
Deep nervous system rewiring and restoration of identity. Medicine used for both resourcing and trauma work — honoring the natural rhythm of the body's own healing.
Our deepest container. Medicine becomes spiritual practice. A year of monthly pause, inquiry, and resolution — before micro-trauma calcifies into a trigger. Long-term nervous system mastery and embodied identity.
Insurance is not billed directly. Detailed documentation is provided for out-of-network reimbursement — many clients recover a meaningful portion of their investment.
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What Clients Say
A piece of myself that I lost 33 years ago has finally returned. I feel it — not just as an idea, but as something real in my body.
Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Client
Her experience is readily apparent. Yet it is her presence — her ability to show up with you in just the right way — that unlocks what has long been closed.
Integration Intensive Client
SEP · EMDR Certified · ART · PSI Protocol · IFS Informed
San Jose, CA · traumatreatedtenderly.com
About Tania
Growing up between cultures taught me something early — many people learn how to adapt long before they learn how to feel fully themselves. That incongruence became the soil of my clinical framework.
With 16 years in somatic psychotherapy and training across EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, IFS, and the PSI protocols, I bring an unusual convergence of clinical rigor and ceremonial sensitivity.
Before clinical work, I trained as a designer at RISD and worked at Apple, Oracle, and Silicon Graphics. I bring the same intentionality to a healing container that I once brought to design. Structure matters. So does the space inside it.
The Safety of Us
The sole differentiating factor between medicine work and psychedelic-assisted therapy — having your therapist as your guide.
Having been a recipient of medicine alone, in a group container, with an individual guide and with peer guides — I stand amazed to experience the difference first hand.
Even with my very best intentions, I notice my nervous system goes deeper, easier and faster knowing that the person who holds me holds my history, my resources, and can pivot with a rich menu of trauma modalities.
Our medicine container is ONE container — not a series of different ones, contexts, and guides. It sits on the foundation of years of therapeutic trust and knowledge earned the old fashioned way: through time.
One container. One guide.
Our medicine container is not a collection of separate contexts and guides. It sits on the foundation of years of therapeutic trust, earned the old fashioned way — through time.
While many protocols ask clients to travel alone, the PSI model places your therapist inside the work with you — present, intervening, integrating in real time with the full toolkit available.
The sole differentiating factor between medicine work and psychedelic-assisted therapy: having your therapist — not just a guide — as the person who holds you. That is what changes everything.
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Begin Your Journey
$400 per session · $450 with medicine
Mirror Session $500 · Applied to any container
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