Jun Akiyama (he/him)

I believe that understanding how sociocultural, systemic, and institutional forces influence the ways that you traverse this world. Examining such contexts can facilitate the harnessing of your internal wisdom as well as become more connected to your collective and ancestral experiences.

I believe that the deep wisdom of our body can support us through many of our challenges. By harnessing our movement, sensations, and breath, we can access the parts of ourselves that exist beneath our consciousness. In doing so, we can re-experience ourselves in ways beyond our old stories—and, help us learn, grow, and heal.

I believe that understanding how sociocultural, systemic, and institutional forces influence the ways that you traverse this world. Examining such contexts can facilitate the harnessing of your internal wisdom as well as become more connected to your collective and ancestral experiences.

I believe that the deep wisdom of our body can support us through many of our challenges. By harnessing our movement, sensations, and breath, we can access the parts of ourselves that exist beneath our consciousness. In doing so, we can re-experience ourselves in ways beyond our old stories—and, help us learn, grow, and heal.

I believe that the deep wisdom of our body can support us through many of our challenges. By harnessing our movement, sensations, and breath, we can access the parts of ourselves that exist beneath our consciousness. In doing so, we can re-experience ourselves in ways beyond our old stories—and, help us learn, grow, and heal.

My approaches based on my perspective that the deep wisdom of our body can support you through many of your challenges. By harnessing your movement, sensations, and breath, you can learn to access the parts of yourself that exist beneath your consciousness. In doing so, you will be able to re-experience yourself in ways beyond your old stories—and, help you learn, grow, and heal.

My approach is based on my perspective that the deep wisdom of your own body can help resolve many of your challenges. By harnessing your movement, sensations, and breath, you can learn to access parts of yourself that exist beneath your consciousness. In doing so, you will be able to re-experience yourself in ways beyond your old stories—and, help you learn, grow, and heal.

Talk therapy asks you to explain a feeling. Somatic psychotherapy asks a different question: what is that feeling doing in your body right now? Before a word arrives, we'll track your breath, posture, and tension — and give them the same weight as anything you'd say out loud. Change here will often start with a bodily experience like a clenched jaw or a knotted stomach, before asking what it might be guarding or hiding.

I've been through serious health crises myself, so I know how much goes into a body that doesn't always cooperate. Illness often carries its own second injury from the medical system itself: being dismissed by doctors, rushed through appointments, reduced to a set of numbers on a chart. None of that gets to define you. We'll learn to pace your limited energy, rebuild trust with a body that surprised you, and refuse to let "patient" become the only word for who you are.

I moved from Japan to the US as a child, growing up straddling two cultures. I know this terrain and I walk it with clients navigating family, culture, and self. Acculturation rarely announces itself; it hides within the subtle flinch upon hearing the question "where are you from" or in the shifting voice depending on who's listening to you. Rather than forcing a choice, we'll make room for every part of you, ancestry and all.

I spent years as a software developer before becoming a therapist, so tech burnout has been part of my life too: Slack culture that never signs off, worth that is measured in shipped commits, rest that never quite lands because your mind is still debugging. Somatic therapy matters because burnout lives in your nervous system, not your to-do list; you can take a week off and come back just as depleted. We'll help your nervous system learn to settle on its own, not just rearrange your workday.

I spent years as a software developer before becoming a therapist, so tech burnout has been part of my life too: Slack culture that never signs off, self-worth measured in shipped commits, rest that never quite lands with your mind stuck in debug-mode. Somatic therapy matters because burnout settles into your nervous system in a way that a week off can't reach. That's the work we’ll do: helping you find lasting ease in your work and your life.

I sometimes invite clients into expressive movement before we put a feeling into words: improvising a gesture that holds the weight of grief, letting anger choose its own rhythm, finding out what a memory looks like when your whole body tells it. Every movement here serves a purpose: a direct, creative route into material that stays locked behind language. I draw on my background in improvisational arts and experience as a Board-Certified Dance/Movement Therapist (BC-DMT) to get there.

Culture plays a role in every session: in who you feel loyal to, what silence means in your family, which parts of yourself get to show up here. That might mean exploring why "we" slips into a sentence about your own choices, or how close you stand to someone depending on who they are, without even thinking about it. As someone who's bicultural myself, I don't treat culture as scenery in the background; after all, it's centerstage, however that culture takes shape for you.