Somatic & Depth Therapy for a life deeply rooted.
Offering EMDR, Somatic therapy, IFS, Couple’s Therapy and Psychedelic Therapy in Seattle, WA so you can return to your nature.
Welcome. I’m glad you found your way here.
You are more than just your thoughts. You are made of stories, traditions, sensations, emotions, breath, imagination, energy, patterns, relationships, nature, and ancestry. Not everything must be transcended; some things ask to be held.
Therapy Modalities
When we aren't embodied, unresolved patterns show up as loops in the mind, the heavy tides of burnout, or a quiet disconnection from our own heart. These are not signs of brokenness, but signals from the nervous system alerting us to what needs tending. Through somatic and depth oriented modalities, we slow to the pace of the body so the whispered intelligence of the unconscious can finally be heard—a calling home to yourself.
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I am trained in Hakomi Somatic Therapy— a gentle, mindfulness-based approach that invites you to come home to yourself through your body. True transformation isn’t just about understanding your struggles—it’s about embodying that understanding and rediscovering your joy and aliveness, which deepens your capacity to meet life’s ups and downs.
Guided by the core principles of Hakomi—mindfulness, nonviolence, organicity, unity, and mind–body holism—this method creates a compassionate space to explore your inner world. Instead of trying to analyze or solve feelings, Hakomi helps you slow down and notice the sensations, emotions, and impulses that live beneath your words and stories. Through this mindful attention, new connections emerge, opening pathways to deeper self knowledge.
Sessions may include mindfulness exploration of limiting beliefs, reenactments of missing experiences, IFS style parts work, gentle movement experiments, and consensual therapeutic touch, always shaped by your needs and readiness. By listening deeply to the body in this way, Hakomi offers an embodied path home to yourself.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy invites you to explore the many parts within yourself—each carrying emotions, memories, and roles shaped not only by your life experiences, but also by familial, cultural, and collective influences. Much like active imagination, IFS helps you access both your personal inner world and the deeper patterns that shape it, offering a pathway to understand and shift the dynamics that profoundly influence your life.
IFS supports you in building a compassionate, trusting relationship with all parts of yourself—the protectors, the ones carrying pain, and those connected to joy, purpose, and pleasure. As these relationships deepen, your core Self—the wise, calm center—emerges as a witness and guide. From this place, you can bring understanding, attunement, and care to your inner world, creating harmony within.
This process invites deeper self-awareness, emotional balance, and freedom from old patterns. It can open the door to genuine self-love and compassion, while creating more space for peace, creativity, and presence.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is a powerful therapy designed to help you process and move through distressing memories and experiences that may be stuck in your nervous system. By using guided bilateral stimulation—such as eye movements, taps, or sounds—EMDR helps your brain reprocess these memories in a way that reduces their emotional intensity and shifts how they affect you.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, EMDR works with the body’s natural healing processes, allowing painful experiences to be integrated and released without needing to talk them through in detail. This approach can bring relief from trauma, anxiety, and other emotional challenges, helping you reclaim a sense of safety and balance.
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Transpersonal therapy supports what’s often called a spiritual emergence—a process where non-ordinary states of consciousness (through meditation, breathwork, dreams, psychedelic experiences, or spontaneous spiritual openings) bring profound shifts in awareness. These experiences can awaken a sense of meaning, connection, and creativity, yet they may also feel overwhelming, destabilizing, or difficult to integrate into daily life.
In our work, we approach these moments with reverence for both their psychological and spiritual dimensions. Through somatic practices, mindfulness, and creative exploration, I help you anchor what’s unfolding—transforming intense or disorienting experiences into sources of inner wisdom, presence, and purpose.
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Psychedelic-assisted therapy is an expanded state of consciousness—known as a non-ordinary state of consciousness (NOSC)—that engages the brain’s natural capacity for change through enhanced neuroplasticity. In these states, old patterns can loosen, opening space for new perspectives, emotional release, and transformation. With preparation and integration, psychedelics can help you move through what has felt blocked and open into new ways of being.
In my practice, I offer Cannabis-assisted therapy (with physician approval) alongside psychotherapy. These sessions bring unconscious emotions and patterns into awareness, supporting release, insight, and growth beyond symptom management.
Additionally, I offer harm-reduction preparation and psychedelic integration therapy— whether your journey unfolds in my office, in ceremony elsewhere, at home, or in another clinical setting outside of my office.
My approach blends somatic practices with a mythopoetic lens. Together, we may draw on Internal Family Systems (IFS), breathwork, ritual, mindfulness, story, myth, and poetry to uncover the deeper meaning within your experience. Our work invites you to integrate both insight and symbolism into daily life—deepening self-understanding, transformation, and a more authentic relationship with yourself
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We can learn a lot about ourselves in relationships, but often our vulnerabilities can be heightened, and we can be at a loss for how to communicate our needs and desires effectively.
In couples therapy, I integrate a holistic approach that includes nervous system regulation, attachment theory, sex-positive counseling, somatic therapy,Hakomi, Internal Family Systems, and family systems therapy. My goal is to support the growth of your relationship, deepening interpersonal awareness and connection.
Ash Anthony
MA, LMFT.
My path into this work began long before I became a therapist. I grew up in a lineage of women shaped by unspoken grief; my great-grandmother lost her life to it, and my grandmother and mother lost much of their capacity to love because of it. That absence left a quiet disconnection in me—one I could feel in my body long before I had the words to name it.
Through years of somatic therapy, parts work, and integrating ritual and ceremony into the everyday, I learned to trust the wisdom of my own body. Beneath the grief, I discovered my inner knowing had never truly left. I came to understand that healing is not about fixing what’s broken—because none of us are broken—but about reclaiming what has been buried and patiently giving it room to grow. The answers we seek already live within us; together, we move toward wholeness, aliveness, and the parts of you that have always known the way home.
Return to your nature.
Your body knows the way home.
You May Be Wondering…
Don’t see your question here? Send me a message.
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Individual Psychotherapy:
• 50-Minute Individual Session: $260
• 75-Minute Individual Session: $390Couples & Relational Psychotherapy:
• 50-Minute Couples Session: $310
• 75-Minute Couples Session: $465Cannabis-Assisted Therapy
• 3-Hour Cannabis-Assisted Therapy: $780
3-Hour “Marathon Therapy” sessions are billed at standard hourly rates and booked on Fridays.
A portion of my practice is dedicated to reduced-fee sessions to support a more inclusive path to healing. If my standard rates are a barrier for you, let’s discuss what is possible.. Please see Information and Policies for details.
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Not at the moment. I am an "Out of Network" provider for all PPO insurance plans. In some cases, services may be reimbursed in part by your health insurance plan if you have out of network behavioral health coverage. I can provide you with a “superbill' that you can submit to your insurance. It is the clients responsibility to inquire about their benefit coverage.
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Yes, I prioritize in-person sessions in Seattle, Washington in the conveniently located SODO neighborhood- the ancestral land of the Duwamish and Coastal Salish peoples.
My office has plenty of free parking. There is often a therapy dog in session as well.
I do offer Telehealth therapy for Washington state clients who can occasionally make it to therapy in-person. I prioritize in-person sessions at this time, and do not see clients exclusively through Telehealth unless there is a medical need, or moving to Telehealth is required on a temporary basis.
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I am a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (WA: LF61245016) with an MA from Antioch University and over 9 years of experience weaving together depth psychology, trauma therapy, spiritual emergence, creative modalities, and body-based practices. Ash Anthony, LMFT is a somatic therapist in Seattle, Washington specializing in Hakomi Somatic Therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), EMDR, and psychedelic therapy through a transpersonal lens.
My advanced training includes:
Intimacy from the Inside Out (Internal Family Systems Institute)
EMDR (EMDR Institute, Inc.), Level 2
Hakomi Somatic Therapy (Seattle Hakomi Education Network), Level 2
MDMA-Assisted Therapy (MAPS)
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (Telos)
Holotropic Breathwork (Grof® Legacy Training)
Trauma-Informed Yoga (200-hour training in progress)
I am also a member of the C. G. Jung Society, AAMFT, and WAMFT.
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Please provide 48 hours notice for cancellations or reschedules by phone, text, or email. For less than 48 hours notice, the full self-pay session fee is due. If both of our schedules allow rescheduling in the same calendar week, no fee is due, though this option cannot be guaranteed.
Due to high demand for mental health services, clients who are able to prioritize weekly session attendance will have priority scheduling. Clients are allowed 2 cancellations per 6 month period before losing their weekly appointment time and returning to as available scheduling.
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Yes. If you meet the criteria for family medical leave I can provide your employer or the state with the appropriate paperwork needed to apply for FMLA. When taking FMLA it is required that you are in weekly therapy, and that we provide a treatment plan and summary of your notes to your employer for approval of FMLA. Paperwork fees will be charged accordingly.
