California LMFT
License 147065
NPI 1639830060
About Drisana
Care that honors the person—not just the problem.
Drisana Davis is a trauma therapist offering holistic, relational care for adults and teens navigating emotional and relational concerns.
Drisana Davis, LMFT, SEP
Therapy with room for your full context.
Drisana integrates somatic and relational methods to support resilience and well-being through sessions shaped around the person in front of her.
She approaches therapy with respect for the ways personal history, relationships, culture, and identity influence how each person makes sense of themselves and the world. Rather than applying a fixed formula, she works collaboratively to understand what support feels relevant, tolerable, and meaningful.
This can include talking together, noticing present-moment experience, becoming curious about protective patterns, and making space for new responses to emerge over time.
Her philosophy
You are more than a collection of symptoms.
Responses such as vigilance, withdrawal, over-functioning, or disconnection often developed for understandable reasons. Therapy can offer a place to meet those responses without judgment and explore what they may still be trying to accomplish.
Drisana’s work supports awareness without forcing disclosure or intensity. You remain an active participant in the process, with choice around where the conversation goes and how the work unfolds.
What this can feel like: curious rather than prescriptive, steady rather than rushed, and attentive to both words and body-based experience.
Professional background
Credentials and training
Drisana’s background brings together graduate clinical education, Somatic Experiencing® training, and foundational study in literature, psychology, and yoga.
Graduate and undergraduate study
2017–2020
Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology
Pacifica Graduate Institute
Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
Bachelor of Arts in English Literature
University of California, Santa Barbara
Graduated with Highest Honors; emphasis in Psychology
Somatic and embodied foundations
2017–2020
Somatic Experiencing® professional training
The Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute
Completed a three-year Somatic Experiencing® training program
2013
Yoga Alliance-certified Hatha Yoga Teacher (200-hour)
Universal Yoga, McLeod Ganj, India
Yoga teacher training and yoga therapy
A first step
Would you like to see how it feels to talk together?
A brief consultation is a place to share what you are looking for, ask questions, and get a sense of whether working together may feel right.
15 minutes · Complimentary · No commitment to begin therapy