Gayle Henry is a trauma-focused psychotherapist in Normal Heights, San Diego, holding California LCSW license LCS 28698 and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner certification from her practice at 4417 30th Street, Suite 112, in the 92116 ZIP code. She earned her Master of Social Work from San Diego State University in 2008, completed her Somatic Experiencing certification in 2018, and became a certified iRest Meditation Teacher in 2022, building a multi-modality clinical approach grounded in both cognitive and body-based trauma resolution. Her specialization in complex PTSD, addiction, chronic pain, dual diagnosis, and grief draws on more than 15 years of clinical work across residential, intensive outpatient, and county mental health settings, including five years facilitating sessions in the PTSD and Trauma Recovery intensive outpatient program at Sharp Mesa Vista Hospital. The mindfulness-based modalities at Pilgrimage of the Heart Yoga complement the embodiment practices Henry integrates into session work for clients along the Adams Avenue corridor, where breath work and guided meditation reinforce the nervous system regulation her clinical sessions target. Henry's Somatic Experiencing practice applies Peter Levine's framework to help clients release survival energy locked in fight, flight, or freeze responses, and she serves as Lead Assistant for Somatic Experiencing trainings held in San Diego with SEI faculty Abi Blakeslee. She ran an opioid dependent program earlier in her career, and that addiction-treatment foundation informs her current work with clients managing dual-diagnosis presentations where substance use and trauma intersect. Her additional training includes dialectical behavior therapy, cognitive processing therapy, NeuroAffective Touch, and Kathy Kain's Touch Skills Training, and she offers both telehealth and in-person sessions through a polyvagal-informed treatment model. The same 30th Street suite connects to the broader Normal Heights health corridor, where pain-management and nervous-system regulation work at Good Vibrations Family Chiropractic & Massage extends the somatic treatment framework into structural bodywork for clients with trauma-linked musculoskeletal tension. Henry is an approved provider for personal sessions and case consultations for beginning, intermediate, and advanced Somatic Experiencing students pursuing their own SEP certification.