Welcome to LA Somatics
Touching the emotions in therapy, bodywork & education
Camilla Griggers, PhD
"I’m a somatic therapist, wellness writer and holistic health educator based in West Los Angeles. Drawing on expertise in semantic language studies and somatic therapies, I combine psycholinguistics, fascial emotional release work, and holistic health coaching to help clients regain emotional, mental and physical balance quickly. Unlike traditional massage or conventional talk therapy, my integrative approach bridges the mind/body divide and keeps the body actively engaged in the therapeutic conversation. That’s a game changer! Because we come to self-knowledge and self-care, and to intimate relationships, and to our life’s work in our bodies! By understanding the bodymind connection and how it works, we can fast forward the healing process that our embodied consciousness understands and longs for.“
Work with me
1-on-1 Sessions
In person and hands-on or via Zoom or FaceTime. I help you shift unhealthy habits, release stress, listen to pain, heal trauma and reconnect with yourself. Together, we touch and listen to your body memories to uncover what you need to feel grounded and move forward with ease.
Self-Care Plans
Self-care is the first healthcare. Together we assess 12 key self-care skills, family history of chronic illness, and psychological defense postures. Then we create a 90-day personalized Self-Care Plan to jumpstart healthy changes and reduce the risk of chronic ill health.
Holistic Health Consulting
Bring me on-site or team up with me virtually to co-create a program that works for your business, organization or school. I’m happy to help kickstart healthy change by educating your community about preventive self-care practices easily within reach for everyone.
How well do you practice these 12 self-care skills?
A book for fast change that combines fasting with somatic therapy.
What clients are saying about Fast Therapy
Alice D.
Actress
“I was so happy with the results of my first 10-day fast—which included kicking a two-year sleeping pill addiction—when the opportunity to do it again arose, I knew it was time for a follow up. The second round of Fast Therapy was even better, because I saw the cleansing effects all the way past day 10 to day 14. My benefits included mental clarity, better sleep and digestion, weight loss, emotional balance and peace, not to mention more energy and clearer skin. Would I do it a third time? Absolutely!”
Alexcia P.
Writer
“Fast Therapy completely shifted my relationship to food, my body and my awareness of self. I realized after 10 days of fasting that I’d been constantly consuming and not really pausing to give myself permission and time to let go. I realized I was addicted to food, to consumption itself. I now honor the process of consuming only what I really need in my Core Self and then releasing waste and negative feelings. Fast Therapy is now part of my life, and I know if I need to emotionally or physically cleanse, it’s easy.”
Mark K.
Cinematographer
“Doing Fast Therapy taught me how to detox my colon, liver and gallbladder. And guess what? My back and shoulder pain disappeared. But the next thing I learned was the real game-changer. I was guided to do emotional healing work at the same time. I realized I needed to change how I was in relationship. Like why I wasn’t. That really opened my heart and mind.”
Want to learn more about fast therapy?
A BOOK TO SMILE ABOUT
A GUIDE TO ORAL-SYSTEMIC DENTISTRY FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
The mouthbody connection has changed conventional dentistry and its materials, tools and treatments. As a consumer, you have a choice about which kind of dentistry you want—the old conventional dentistry that pretends your mouth and your body are separate when they’re not, or the new holistic dentistry that treats your mouth and body as connected because they are. This book makes sure you are informed about that choice before you sit in a dentist’s chair, or put your child in one. It explains the 6 top dental problems that can jeopardize your systemic health or the health of loved ones and shows how oral-systemic dentistry can reduce your risk of chronic illnesses such as scoliosis, diabetes, chronic infection, autoimmune disease, heart attack/stroke, cancer and dementia. Learn what to do about:
Recurrent tooth decay
Gum disease
Wisdom teeth extraction
Root canals
Mercury amalgam dental fillings
TMJ, chronic neck pain and misaligned teeth
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Healthcare and the environment
The future is environmental medicine! The mistaken thinking that our body is separate from our mind and likewise our body is separate from our environment is part of the Enlightenment legacy that contemporary theorists of the brainbody connection call ‘Descartes’ error.’ It is the root cause of our postmodern condition of chronic ill health, because the opposite is true: we are our environment. There is no separation.
Our personal and collective wellbeing depends on how fast we can leave the old allopathic paradigm behind in which we separate ourselves from our parts and from our environment. It’s time to embrace a new holistic paradigm in which mind, body, emotions and environment are treated as one unity in psychotherapy, bodywork, medicine and education. Connecting the dots between environmental toxins and chronic mindbody illnesses enables us to adapt in an age of environmental toxicity that we have created, and that only we can heal.