Body & depth, together
Few therapists hold Somatic Experiencing®, EMDR, and depth-oriented expressive arts in one practice. The body and the deeper psyche heal alongside each other, not in separate rooms.
Monterey Peninsula & Telehealth across California
A safe place to exhale, and to heal at the root.
Somatic, depth-oriented psychotherapy for adults carrying trauma, grief, and chronic stress. Body-aware, unhurried, and deeply human. The work of feeling whole again, held with care.
LMFT Certified EMDR Therapist Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner
Two paths, one steady presence
Ways we can work together
Somatic Experiencing® Therapy
A body-aware approach that uses gentle movement, breath, and visualization to release trauma stored beyond words. We move at the pace your nervous system can trust.
- PTSD & chronic stress
- Grief
- Anxiety & depression
- Relationship stress
- Chronic pain
Expressive Arts Therapy & Depth Psychology
Painting, drawing, music, and movement become a way to meet what words cannot reach. Drawn from depth psychology, this work invites the creative self into the healing.
- Complex childhood trauma
- Identity & meaning
- Emotional expression
- Creative reconnection
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy is also available, offered alongside a local team of medical providers. Ask about it in a consultation.
Why work with Bonnie
Healing held with patience and skill.
This is therapy for people ready to meet what is underneath, in a relationship that stays steady the whole way through.
A nervous system you can trust
Trauma work moves only as fast as safety allows. Sessions are unhurried and titrated, so your system is never pushed past what it can hold in the moment.
Lived wisdom, not just theory
25 years as an educator and child-welfare advocate, plus her own path through serious illness, shape a presence that is grounded, warm, and genuinely human.
Carmel, California
Meet Bonnie Rose
A therapist who has lived the work of healing.
A California native, Bonnie Rose spent more than 25 years as a public school teacher and a lifelong advocate for the safe, healthy care of children. A serious illness in her mid-forties turned her toward psychotherapy and the deeper questions of how people mend.
She holds a Master's in Counseling Psychology with an emphasis in Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute, and is a certified EMDR therapist and Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Her practice is warm, embodied, and unhurried, never transactional.
- 25+
- years guiding and advocating for others
- 3
- modalities woven into one practice
- CA
- in-person in Carmel, telehealth statewide
In their words
Quiet, lasting change.
I had spent years talking about what happened to me. With Bonnie, for the first time, my body felt safe enough to let some of it go. She never once rushed me.
Bonnie holds a kind of steadiness that is hard to describe. The art work opened doors that words alone never could. I leave each session feeling more like myself.
She meets you exactly where you are. The somatic work helped me feel grounded in a way I had honestly given up on. I am grateful I found her.
Client names are first name and last initial, shared with permission.
Begin gently
Request a consultation
Reaching out is its own kind of brave. Share a little about what brings you here and Bonnie Rose will be in touch personally. There is no pressure, only a first, unhurried conversation.
Call (secondary) (831) 214-2792
In person & online Carmel, CA · Telehealth statewide
Areas of focus
- Post-traumatic & chronic stress
- Treatment-resistant depression & anxiety
- Complex childhood trauma & family conflict
- Addictions
- Grief
- Cultural & historical trauma