Founded in 2021 as a women-owned practice, Embodi Therapy on Amaya Drive in La Mesa delivers somatic and relational psychotherapy for high-performing adults and couples experiencing burnout, trauma, anxiety, and disconnection. The body-based treatment model — integrating Somatic Experiencing, NeuroAffective Relational Model, and Internal Family Systems — shares a nervous-system regulation framework with manual therapy providers such as Lamesa Physical Therapy, where somatic holding patterns often present as chronic musculoskeletal tension. Founder Melissa Stevenson, LMFT 50226, built the practice around the premise that reconnecting mind, body, and spirit restores agency, and the clinical team includes associate therapists trained in NARM, attachment theory, and the Safe and Sound Protocol for polyvagal-informed auditory intervention. The LGBTQ+-affirming and transgender-safespace designation extends to the therapeutic modalities themselves, with body-based interventions tailored alongside complementary somatic work at practices like Acru Health - La Mesa for clients processing stored trauma through structural bodywork. Highest-complexity engagements involve multi-phase trauma processing using concurrent SE and NARM protocols for developmental trauma with dissociative features, requiring titrated nervous-system activation and sequential completion of truncated survival responses across extended treatment arcs.