Helping women emerge from survival into embodied life
Integrative trauma therapy for women seeking to feel rooted within, softened in their bodies, and deeply connected to themselves, love, and life again.
You may be here because…
Somewhere along the way, you learned it wasn’t safe to fully be in your body.
Maybe you’ve spent years living in survival mode, over-functioning, emotionally shut down, hyper-independent, anxious, disconnected, or carrying the weight of experiences your body never truly got to process.
Perhaps intimacy feels complicated. Rest feels unfamiliar. Trust feels difficult. You want connection, but your nervous system doesn’t always know how to receive it safely.
Many women come to this work feeling deeply exhausted from holding everything alone while quietly grieving how far they’ve become from themselves.
This work is about gently rebuilding safety, connection, trust, and embodiment by creating enough safety for your body to finally stop surviving.
My Approach
Healing Through Safety, Embodiment & Connection
Many women know how to survive but no longer feel fully connected to themselves. Trauma can shape the nervous system, relationships, hormones, sense of self, capacity for intimacy, and the ability to feel safe and present within the body. Over time, many women find themselves living in chronic states of survival—disconnected from their emotions, desires, voice, vitality, and trust within themselves.
My work centers around helping women emerge from chronic survival states back into embodied life. Through somatic trauma therapy, parts work, attachment healing, nervous system restoration, and womb-centered care, I support women in rebuilding safety, emotional capacity, embodiment, and authentic connection within themselves and their relationships.
I specialize in the feminine nervous system and the unique ways trauma, chronic stress, hormones, relational wounds, and survival responses impact women physically, emotionally, spiritually, and relationally. Much of this work involves helping women reconnect to their bodies after experiences of trauma, dissociation, shutdown, hypervigilance, chronic freeze, or relational pain.
Together, we work to gently expand the body’s capacity for safety, emotional presence, intimacy, self-trust, vitality, desire, pleasure, secure attachment, and reclaiming one’s voice after long periods of self-abandonment or survival.
Womb-centered healing is an important part of my work because many women are profoundly disconnected from this area of the body, often only relating to it through menstruation, hormones, reproduction, sexuality, or medical issues. Yet the womb is deeply connected to a woman’s nervous system, emotional world, relational patterns, and sense of embodiment.
The cervix is directly connected to the vagus nerve, which plays a vital role in nervous system regulation, safety, emotional processing, and the body’s stress responses. Trauma, chronic stress, relational wounds, sexual trauma, and survival states can deeply impact a woman’s relationship to her body, hormones, emotions, sexuality, intuition, and ability to feel fully present within herself.
I believe feminine trauma healing cannot fully separate the nervous system from the body, or the body from the womb. Much of this work involves helping women reconnect to themselves physically, emotionally, hormonally, relationally, and spiritually after long periods of survival, shutdown, hypervigilance, self-abandonment, or disconnection.
As women begin restoring safety throughout the nervous system and reconnecting to the body, many experience a deeper sense of groundedness, embodiment, emotional regulation, intuition, self-trust, vitality, and connection to their inner truth.
For women who desire it, faith and relationship with God may also become part of the healing process through prayer, spiritual support, and soul-centered care. Others come from different beliefs or experiences, including religious trauma. My role is not to impose a framework, but to create a grounded and compassionate space where healing and reconnection can unfold safely and authentically.
Meet Cherezade
Hi, my name is Cherezade. I’m an integrative trauma therapist, mother, and a woman who deeply understands what it means to rebuild safety, trust, connection, and life again after trauma.
My work centers around helping women emerge from chronic survival states back into embodied life. Through somatic trauma therapy, nervous system restoration, attachment healing, parts work, and womb-centered care, I support women in reconnecting to themselves, their bodies, relationships, emotions, and capacity to feel fully alive again.
Over the last 9 years, I’ve worked closely with women navigating sexual/womb trauma, relational trauma, chronic freeze responses, nervous system dysregulation, body disconnection, attachment wounds, and the complex ways trauma can shape a woman’s relationship to herself and the world around her.
At the core of my work is the belief that women heal through connection— safe connection to the body, to others, to God, and to life itself. Trauma often disrupts that connection and pulls women into chronic states of survival, where the body remains braced, hypervigilant, shut down, over-functioning, disconnected, or unable to fully soften and rest.
I don’t believe healing happens through forcing, fixing, or pathologizing women for the ways they learned to survive. I believe healing happens through safety, relationship, compassion, nervous system repair, emotional honesty, and slowly rebuilding trust within the body over time.
My approach to the therapeutic relationship is deeply relational and non-hierarchical. While I bring clinical training and therapeutic structure into this work, I also value authenticity, humanity, presence, and the wisdom that can emerge through shared lived experience. I want women to feel seen here, not judged. Held, but never controlled. Supported in fully showing up as they are while we gently navigate the healing process together.
My own healing journey has profoundly shaped the way I hold this work. Through trauma, recovery, motherhood, loss, nervous system healing, and deep personal transformation, I’ve learned that healing is rarely linear and no single framework fully captures the complexity of what trauma does to the mind, body, relationships, hormones, identity, and spirit. Healing often requires an integrative and deeply compassionate approach that honors the whole person.
Faith and my relationship with God have also become an important part of my own healing and restoration, deeply reshaping the way I understand safety, surrender, compassion, and transformation within the healing process.
Much of my work also centers around helping women reconnect to the body after long periods of self-abandonment, shutdown, hypervigilance, or chronic survival. I believe many women are not only longing to heal but longing to feel free — free from constant bracing, anxiety, control, mistrust, emotional exhaustion, and survival. Free to exhale. Free to soften. Free to feel present, connected, alive, and fully within themselves again.
Whether you are navigating trauma, disconnection, chronic overwhelm, relational wounds, or simply longing to feel more present, alive, and connected within yourself again — you are welcome here.
Education, Training & Approach
I hold a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Bastyr University and have spent the last 9 years deeply immersed in the study and practice of trauma healing, somatic therapy, nervous system restoration, attachment healing, feminine physiology, and womb centered care.
My background includes training in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy through The Embody Lab, Breathwork Facilitation through Sacred Breath Academy, and Womb Centered Healing through Fountain of Life. I’ve also extensively studied parts work, attachment theory, poly vagal theory, and the relationship between trauma, the nervous system, hormones, and the feminine body.
My approach integrates evidence based trauma therapy with somatic, relational, attachment based, and body centered approaches that support deep healing, emotional regulation, embodiment, and restoration for women navigating the impacts of trauma and chronic survival states.
Professional Profiles
Work with me
A 50-minute virtual session designed to support women in healing trauma, rebuilding nervous system safety, and reconnecting to themselves through an integrative, somatic, and relational approach to therapy. Sessions are typically held weekly or bi-weekly depending on your needs and may include ongoing support through individual sessions or multi-session packages.
Extended 90-minute to 2-hour body-based sessions designed to support deeper emotional processing, nervous system restoration, and trauma release through the body. These sessions may incorporate circular breathwork, somatic release work, body dearmoring, emotional expression, womb-centered healing, and other integrative practices that support the release of chronic tension, suppression, and survival patterns held within the nervous system and body.
Soma Sessions are available for ongoing clients or through an application and consultation process to ensure appropriate fit and support.
$250–$350 depending on session length and intention.
A complimentary 15-minute consultation to connect, explore your needs, and determine whether working together feels aligned. This space also allows time to ask questions about my approach, current offerings, and the type of support you may be seeking.
Important Information
All sessions are currently held virtually for women throughout the United States and internationally.
I operate as a private-pay practice and do not currently accept health insurance. All clients receive informed consent and appropriate documentation prior to beginning services.
Client Reviews
“Working with Cherezade was one of the most healing experiences I have ever had.
She made me feel incredibly safe, held, and nurtured from beginning to completion. She was very clear in explaining what to expect and how to prepare, and she allowed me to process in the ways I needed while guiding me through everything I was experiencing.
Afterwards, she held space for me to speak and process until I felt safe and grounded.
Her presence is deeply grounding and supportive, and the experience created profound healing and transformation within me. I am so grateful to continue this work with her.”
—Andia K. | California
“Before working with Cherezade, I knew there was a lot of pain inside me that I had been afraid to face.
The moment I saw her on my screen, I felt immediate ease and relief in my body. Her presence is radically nurturing, accepting, and powerful, and within minutes I knew she could safely hold whatever arose for me.
She guided me through the process with clarity, gentleness, and so much care.
I felt more connected to myself than ever before.
Cherezade embodies this work with a depth, grace, and presence that is truly rare. I had complete confidence that she could hold both the intensity of my emotions and my most vulnerable moments.”
— Catherine L. | Shoreline, WA
“First of all, I want to say what a genuinely kind-hearted soul Cherezade is.
From the beginning, I felt deeply supported. There was no judgment — only understanding, compassion, and space for me to move through what was arising emotionally.
The experience felt incredibly safe, held, and grounding.
In the days that followed, I became aware of emotions and pain that had been deeply hidden, and I finally felt able to begin processing them.
This work created such a profound shift within me, and I truly cannot wait to continue this journey.”
— Nadia V. | London, UK
“Her grace and compassion allowed me to look at both myself and my loved ones with greater compassion.
She helped me step outside of my pain and see my life from a more expanded and loving perspective.
Cherezade held space for me in such a profound way, and something within me softened and transformed through our time together.
I cannot fully express the lightness I felt afterwards or the transformation that was seeded within me.
I can only say: do yourself a favor and work with Cherezade.”
— Cyn Bahati | San Antonio, TX
“Working with Cherezade initiated a deep shift within me.
Afterwards, I felt energized, clear, connected, and deeply restored within myself.
The space she holds felt gentle, safe, and powerful all at once. I felt guided, empowered, held, and heard throughout the experience.
The depth of wisdom and care she brings to this work is truly beautiful.”
— Simran Shakti Kaur | Big Island, HI
“Cherezade is a compassionate, educated, and fearless healer who brings both wisdom and deep care to her work.
Working with her created profound shifts within me and deeply impacted the way I relate to myself and others.
With Cherezade, you are in incredibly capable and compassionate hands.”
— Donna Lou Holloman | Seattle, WA
Let’s Connect
Whether you’re moving through a difficult season, seeking deeper healing, or desiring more clarity and connection within yourself and your relationships, this is a space where you do not have to carry it alone.
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