Riki Alexander

Riki Alexander

Close to 50 years as a body-centered therapist & educator, almost 30 of those practicing SE, Riki is the senior Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in the Washington, DC area, seeing clients virtually from the comfort of their home or office environment. As of 2020, tele-health sessions only.  Focusing on trauma recovery, nervous system stabilization, and the restoration of joy and wholeness. Riki's gift is to meet her clients where they are, without labeling or pathologizing, honoring each person's unique life story as a starting place from which to return to full liveliness that may have been lost, interrupted, or forgotten along the way. Riki is also an AmSAT-certified senior teacher of the Alexander Technique, an ISMETA Registered Somatic Movement Therapist, and a USABP member (US Association for Body Psychotherapy). She incorporates Arny Mindell's Process Work & Authentic Movement into her practice. Riki's greatest joy lies in supporting each client's unique personal process, trusting the creative self-regulation of every nervous system to proceed along its own healing path.  In addition to a private practice working with individuals and couples, Riki has been a long-time primary assistant on Somatic Experiencing® trainings. She is a SEI-approved provider of required personal sessions and case consultations/supervision for SE students at all levels of training. E-mail is the best way to connect.

Specialties

• Addiction
• Adults
• Adults abused as children
• Chronic Illness
• Chronic Pain/Fibromyalgia
• Complex PTSD
• Couples Counseling
• Developmental Trauma
• Early Childhood Attachment Disturbances
• Grief and Loss
• Pregnancy/Prenatal/Postpartum
• Relational/Relationship Issues
• Self-Esteem
• Racial Trauma
• Systemic Trauma
• Sexual Abuse
• Womens’ Issues