The Clinic
Therapy that begins where words run out.
A clinical psychologist’s rigor with a somatic educator’s hands. Sessions are confidential, evidence-informed, and paced by your nervous system, not by a script.
Request a consultationWays to work together
Six doors into one practice. Each stands alone; all of them draw on the same method.
Individual psychotherapy
Trauma-informed clinical work for complex stress, relational injury, migration and displacement, grief, and identity. Talk is welcome; the body is always in the room.
Applied Natya Therapy™
A framework she founded in 2014 integrating the Natya Shastra's rasa theory with trauma-informed psychology and somatic movement. No dance experience needed. No performance expected.
Clinical hypnotherapy
Master Trainer level. Used when the pattern lives below the story: sleep, pain, habit, and the loops that resist insight alone.
Body of Emotions
Her signature workshop, facilitated internationally since 2015. Half-day retreats, masterclasses, and closed groups for teams and communities.
Women's circles and parents
Trauma-informed circles on postpartum, motherhood, and self-reliance, drawn from years of survivor advocacy and shelter-based group work. PEACE Parenting programs for families.
Corporate and organizational wellness
Somatic regulation for high-stress teams: emotional intelligence, leadership presence, work ethics and culture, and gender sensitivity. Delivered by someone who has stood in front of a room and held it.
What a session moves through
Five movements, one hour.
- 1
Arrive
Settle, breathe, and name what the week has left in the body.
- 2
Sense
Locate the feeling somatically before interpreting it.
- 3
Move
Small, guided gestures, a mudra or a shift of weight, that let the body speak first.
- 4
Rasa
Meet the emotion as felt experience, safely titrated, with clinical containment.
- 5
Integrate
Return to language. Make meaning. Leave with one thing to practice.
This is psychotherapy, not a dance class. Movement is a clinical tool here, used with consent and clinical judgment, and never for performance.
The method
Where the clinic and the stage meet.
The Natya Shastra has organized Indian classical performance for two thousand years. It names nine rasas, the emotional registers a performer learns to enter and leave at will, and it maps them in unusual detail.
Applied Natya Therapy™ takes that grammar of gesture, rhythm, and rasa and holds it to the standards of modern psychology: assessment, method, supervision, and outcome. It is the subject of Dr. Dimple’s doctoral research on Dance/Movement Therapy in the treatment of Complex PTSD, and it is taught to clinicians through the Institute.
The nine rasas
Śṛṅgāra
love
Hāsya
laughter
Karuṇā
compassion
Raudra
anger
Vīra
courage
Bhayānaka
fear
Bībhatsa
disgust
Adbhuta
wonder
Śānta
peace
As listed in the Natya Shastra, chapter 6. Śānta was added by later commentators.
Who this is for
- Adults who have tried talk therapy and felt something was missing.
- Immigrants and third-culture professionals whose bodies never quite arrived.
- Artists, performers, and healers who hold everyone else.
- Survivors who want to feel safe in their own skin again.
Sessions are held in Orange County, California, and over video worldwide.
The clinician
- PhD, Psychology
- 2011
- PsyD, clinical specialization
- Completed
- Master Trainer
- Clinical Hypnotherapy
- Registered Somatic Movement Educator
- ISMETA
- Doctoral research
- Dance/Movement Therapy for Complex PTSD
- Survivor advocacy
- Parenting programs and support groups for survivors of domestic and sexual violence, California, since 2023
Request a consultation
Tell her briefly what you are looking for. Therapy inquiries are confidential, and you’ll hear back within a few business days.
If you are in crisis or need emergency support, please contact local emergency services or a crisis line first. This practice is not an emergency service.