Somatic & Psychedelic Therapist in Seattle, WA
Tune into your Wild Wisdom
Discover the melody beneath the noise
Holistic Therapy
Beyond Words, Into Knowing
Something in you already knows the way forward.
It may not speak in words—it might show up as tension, restlessness, or creative blocks. Perhaps it appears in looping patterns of tangled thoughts, or in limiting beliefs absorbed along the way. We all suffer in our own way, and our psyches and bodies carry the burdens. These experiences are not flaws to fix—they’re signals, asking to be heard so they can return to harmony.
You don’t have to navigate this alone.
Therapy is a space to attune—to the deeper currents within you, to the body’s wisdom, to the quiet knowing beneath the noise of thought. Together, using a holistic blend of somatic therapy, expressive arts, and science-backed modalities, we’ll create space for your innate wisdom to speak. As you cultivate the inner witness, your compass begins to turn naturally toward your gifts, your purpose, and your joy.
This work is about restoring trust in your own intuition—supporting you as you listen inward, follow your instincts, and return to the intelligence already within you. Even if it feels faint right now, your inner wisdom is still here, ready to awaken when you answer the call. I’m here to walk beside you as you take the next brave step into your own unfolding.
The Approach
A brave space to explore what is alive in the present
while tending to the patterns carried across time.
Through somatic practice, mindfulness, and creative modalities
we cultivate the conditions for balance, curiosity, and transformation to unfold.
Chris Lott
MA, LMHCA
My path as a therapist is shaped by lived experience, creativity, and a deep respect for the body’s wisdom.
As a teenager, a traumatic brain injury from football shattered my sense of self and left me caught in perfectionism, self doubt, and disorientation. At the same time, it awakened resilience, humor in the face of fear, and a willingness to step into the unknown. Those qualities carried me into a life of creative adventure as a touring musician and writer.
As I deepened into my creative practices, I struggled to access the muse that once felt effortless. Thought dropping, self doubt, and other TBI symptoms disrupted my flow and led to periods of anxiety and depression. I longed for a way back to that inner current of aliveness and expression.
My healing journey led me through somatic and experimental therapies, meditation, improvisation through Raga, a spiritual musical system with ancient roots in North Indian culture, and a transformative encounter with the West African plant medicine Iboga. Through these experiences, I came to understand that healing is not about fixing what is broken, but about remembering.
I remembered how to listen to the body and the silence between thoughts, how to breathe, and how to meet symptoms with kindness and curiosity. I remembered that healing does not happen alone, that it is okay to ask for support and to try something brave. As my relationship to my story and to myself shifted, everything shifted. My symptoms softened, my creative flow returned, and the muse reappeared. I found that the way forward was through listening more deeply to what lives beyond thought.
Integrative Modalities
Each of us carries a unique constellation of experiences—patterns, tensions, and possibilities.
Transformation begins when we engage with modalities that support your inner intelligence and balance.
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Transpersonal therapy is an approach that honors both the psychological and the sacred, inviting us to move beyond the familiar story of who we think we are. In this work, we explore the edges where ordinary experience touches the extraordinary—through dreams, meditation, body awareness, and other expanded states of consciousness. These moments may arrive as awakenings, crises, or peak experiences, bringing with them both wonder and disorientation. Rather than pathologizing these states, transpersonal therapy sees them as openings into deeper meaning, connection, and wisdom that can reshape the way we live.
This therapeutic process supports integration—giving shape to what feels ineffable, grounding insights that emerge, and welcoming the parts of ourselves that exist beyond the rational mind. Together, we create space for what extends into the realms of mystery and possibility, cultivating presence and trust in the wisdom that arises. Through somatic awareness, mindfulness, and creative expression, transpersonal counseling helps you listen beneath the surface noise and discover the deeper melody of your being—a resonance that guides you toward authenticity, purpose, and a felt sense of belonging in both your inner and outer worlds. This includes support for navigating non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC)—whether they emerge spontaneously, through contemplative practice, or in the context of psychedelic work—helping you integrate what is uncovered so it becomes a source of strength, clarity, and wholeness.
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Somatic therapy invites you back into the living intelligence of your body. Rather than relying only on stories or analysis, this approach emphasizes mindful awareness of sensation, breath, and subtle movement—opening a doorway into deeper understanding and self-compassion. In Hakomi-based work, mindfulness is not just a tool but the ground we stand on, creating a safe and curious space to notice the ways your body carries memory, emotion, and possibility. By slowing down and listening closely, layers of experience can gently surface, bringing insight that feels both grounded and transformative.
Sound and music sometimes accompany this process, offering a way to move emotions and create resonance with your inner rhythm. These vibrations can help shift what feels stuck, opening pathways for expression, release, and connection with your own vitality. Somatic therapy is an invitation to feel more at home in yourself—where body, mind, and heart can realign, and where the wisdom you discover becomes a living resource for wholeness, resilience, and belonging.
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Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy welcomes the many parts that make up your inner world. Each part carries its own feelings, memories, and protective strategies, shaped by the experiences you’ve lived through. Whether in individual or couples work, IFS offers a way to slow down and listen with compassion to these voices within, so they no longer need to clash, dominate, or remain hidden. When we relate to our parts from a place of curiosity instead of judgment, they begin to soften—revealing the stories and longings beneath their roles.
At the heart of this process is your Self: the calm, steady presence that can hold all parts with care. Accessing this sanctuary allows what has felt fragmented to return to wholeness, creating room for healing through unburdening and repairing missing experiences. For couples, this work can reshape old dynamics by easing triggers and inviting deeper attunement, while for individuals it opens a path to inner freedom, clarity, and lasting change. IFS helps both people and partnerships rediscover harmony—where every part feels included, and new ways of being become possible.
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Psychedelic therapy creates a supportive container for exploring non-ordinary states of consciousness in ways that foster healing, insight, and deeper presence. This work honors both the body and the psyche, helping you access what lies beneath habitual patterns so that new pathways for connection and meaning can emerge. I offer three distinct ways of engaging with this work:
Integration: A grounded space to process and make sense of experiences from expanded states—whether they arise spontaneously, in ceremony, or with other medicines—so the insights gained can be woven into daily life.
Cannabis-assisted therapy: Paired with somatic practices, this approach can gently open access to deeper layers of memory and emotion while supporting balance in the nervous system. Through mindful attention to the body, it offers a way to release long-held patterns and reconnect with a sense of safety and vitality. I am a member of Syzygy Psychotherapy Collective, and you can learn more about our CAT process here.
Across all of these offerings, the focus remains on integration—helping you embody the wisdom of these experiences so that transformation continues long after the session ends.
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Experiential Sound Therapy uses music, rhythm, and resonance as pathways into deeper connection with yourself and others. In both individual and couples sessions, sound can be a powerful tool for moving emotion, awakening intuition, and cultivating presence. Although this modality is often woven into individual and couples work, the heart of this practice comes alive in group settings. Through voice, body, and accessible instruments, participants are invited to explore sound not as performance, but as a living experience—one that opens new ways of expressing, listening, and relating.
Group work offers a unique opportunity to enter into collective musical expression, where we learn to attune to one another, discover belonging, and build trust in both our own voice and the shared field of the group. These sessions can open doorways into states of flow, trance, and creative expansion, offering profound benefits for emotional balance, relational healing, and self-discovery. No musical background is needed—only a willingness to listen, explore, and allow sound to guide you into greater confidence, connection, and aliveness.
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Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) offers a way to transform experiences that feel stuck in the body and mind. Using gentle bilateral stimulation—through eye movements, tapping, or sound—EMDR helps the nervous system reprocess distressing memories so they lose their charge and no longer shape your life in the same way. This process allows overwhelming experiences to be integrated rather than avoided, creating space for greater calm, presence, and resilience.
In my work, EMDR is often woven together with Internal Family Systems (IFS). While EMDR supports the nervous system in re-patterning old memories, IFS provides a compassionate framework to understand and care for the parts of you that carry them. Together, these modalities soften the grip of old triggers, restore a sense of inner safety, and open the way for new experiences of trust, clarity, and connection—with yourself and with others.
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Gestalt-oriented therapy invites you into the fullness of the present moment. Rather than focusing only on past stories, this approach emphasizes awareness of what is unfolding here and now—in your sensations, emotions, thoughts, and relationships. By slowing down and bringing mindful attention to your direct experience, Gestalt work helps illuminate unconscious patterns and unfinished dynamics that continue to shape how you move through the world.
In practice, this may involve engaging in dialogue between different parts of yourself, experimenting with movement or role play, or noticing the subtle ways you connect with others. Gestalt’s experiential nature aligns closely with Hakomi somatic therapy and sound-based practices, offering creative pathways to embody awareness and move emotions. Together, these approaches encourage deeper self-acceptance, emotional flexibility, and authenticity, allowing you to step into your life with greater presence and vitality.
Psychedelic Therapy
Psychedelic Therapy, including psychedelic integration and cannabis-assisted therapy, works with non ordinary states of consciousness to support healing, insight, and deeper self understanding. These states can create temporary shifts in perception, memory, and embodied experience, allowing emotional and somatic patterns to become more accessible without forcing or analysis. Through careful preparation, attuned support, and integration, this work helps translate expanded awareness into grounded change, greater presence, and a more connected relationship to yourself and your life.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy, grounded in the Hakomi method and blended with Internal Family Systems and Gestalt approaches is a gentle, mindfulness based approach that supports deep self discovery through the wisdom of the body. By slowing down and listening inwardly, this work helps you reconnect with parts of yourself that have learned to protect, adapt, or step aside in order to survive. Rather than forcing change, it creates the conditions for insight, integration, and transformation to arise organically, strengthening trust in your inner knowing and capacity for presence.
Group Therapy
Reconnect with your creative expression and intuition — explore collective musical connection, build trust, and deepen your ability to listen, respond, and flow together.
EMDR
EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a somatic therapy that supports the nervous system in re-organizing how overwhelming or traumatic experiences are held in the body. Using gentle bilateral stimulation such as eye movements, tapping, or sound, EMDR allows unresolved memories to be processed without needing to relive or retell painful events. As these experiences are integrated, their emotional and physiological intensity naturally softens, creating more ease, presence, and a deeper sense of safety in yourself.
Cannabis Assisted Therapy
Cannabis-assisted therapy creates a spacious and intentional container for self-exploration. Within a guided therapeutic setting, cannabis can support nervous system regulation, trauma resolution, and parts work, while opening pathways to deeper awareness and connection with yourself. This approach encourages developing a mindful relationship with cannabis, using its unique effects to access embodied insight, move through emotional barriers, and engage more fully with inner experience and life transitions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Don’t see your question here? Send me a message.
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• 50-Minute Individual Session: $175. • 75-Minute Individual Session: $260
• 50-Minute Couples Session: $215 • 75-Minute Couples Session: $320Cannabis Therapy:
• 4-Hour Cannabis-Assisted Psychotherapy Session: $840
• 3-Hour Cannabis-Assisted Psychotherapy Session: $630
I offer a limited number of sliding scale spots for those with financial need. See Information & Policies for more 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.
Check that your insurance covers LMHCA professionals with supervision support before booking a session that you are hoping to cover with your out-of-network benefits. See Information & Policies for more details.
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Yes, I offer in-person sessions in Seattle, Washington in the conveniently located SODO neighborhood. I also offer Telehealth to clients in Washington state.
My office has plenty of free parking. There is often a therapy dog in session as well.
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Yes! You can join one of my Groups without being my client. I request that you have individual therapy support while attending groups so you have a place to process what you experienced in group therapy.
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I am a Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associate in Washington State (License #MC61510845). I hold a Master’s degree in Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling from Naropa University (2023) and bring additional depth from my MFA in Creative Writing from UMass Amherst (2015).
Professional Training
IFS Institute, Intimacy from the Inside Out (in progress, 2025)
EMDR Training, Center for Creative Mindfulness (2024)
Hakomi Somatic Therapy – Level 1 (2024)
Holotropic Breathwork, Grof Legacy Training (2023)
Relational Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, Beckley Academy (2022)
Pre-Licensed Counselor, Ignite: A Path to Wellness (2022)
Therapeutic Music & Arts Specialist, Children’s Institute for Learning Differences (2019–2024)
Degrees
MA, Mindfulness-Based Transpersonal Counseling – Naropa University, 2023
MFA, Creative Writing (Fiction) – University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2015
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I offer brief therapy for EMDR, which typically last around 15 sessions.
For other therapy modalities a longer commitment is typically required.
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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.
See Information & Policies for more details.
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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. See Information & Policies for more details.
Begin Your Journey.
Ready to get started! Here’s the steps that we will follow together to see if we are a good match for your current needs. I look forward to connecting with you!
Schedule your free 20-minute discovery call
Let’s connect! Send me a message and we can set up a 20-minute discovery call where you can share what’s alive for you right now, ask questions, and get a sense of how this work might support your journey.
Book your first session
If it feels like the right fit, we’ll arrange your first session and send you intake forms to help you prepare. Our first session will be 75 minutes to ensure we have a good foundation as we move forward.
Our Journey Begins
When we meet, we’ll listen deeply to your story, clarify your intentions, and co-create a path forward that honors your unique needs and goals. Meeting weekly during the first month is recommended to build skills and practices that support your journey forward.