My name is Heather Haley and I am a licensed psychotherapist (LCSW) with over 20 years of experience working with adults, children, and families. My practice is unique because I combine my extensive knowledge of psychotherapy including mindfulness practices, trauma recovery, and working with our nervous systems with Soul Lightening Acupressure. Soul Lightening Acupressure is a gentle, effective, and efficient form of holistic psychotherapy which incorporates therapeutic touch on the body’s energy points to create a stronger, clearer flow of energy to help connect you with your inner wisdom, heal from past traumas and wounds, gain insight and wisdom, and become your authentic self.
Soul Lightening Acupressure is gentle. This process honors the flow of what is arising and ready to be healed and never pushes. It helps you release stuck energy/thoughts/beliefs from past experiences and traumas in a safe space at your own pace so you will feel held and safe – not retraumatized. At the end of a session you will usually feel more grounded, lighter, and clearer with some new insight.
Soul Lightening Acupressure is effective. It permanently heals and transforms painful or unhelpful patterns of thought or behavior instead of just teaching you to cope with them. As you release these patterns you will become more and more your authentic self.
Soul Lightening Acupressure is efficient. You will be able to release and transform stuck energy that has been keeping you in the past – sometimes without even needing to talk about it, as well as gain insight and wisdom from your experiences on a deep level of knowing. One session can feel more effective than months or years worth of talk therapy.
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What does it look like to have a Soul Lightening Acupressure session with me?
You begin your session surrounded by trees, bees, and wind chimes in my healing garden, discussing what is coming up for you.
Sessions With Adults and Teens who want to talk:
We start by talking on my porch surrounded by the sounds of Nature and wind chimes in my garden which support us to get grounded and stay in the present moment. We focus on what is arising in your growth and healing journey and view your symptoms as signals from your inner wisdom telling us what is ready to be healed (like relationship patterns, anxiety, body pain or illness). We then move to the table to engage in the energy work where you notice what is arising in your awareness (sensations, images, memories, etc) and we look at them together. Working in this way we can clear old patterns, gain wisdom from your body and soul that your mind was not aware of, and guide you toward healing.
You can continue to express what arises for you during the energy session and we look at it together. Body sensations and gestures give us important information about your process.
At the end of the session we bring more awareness to the wisdom you have gained and look at how you will incorporate it into your life.
You set an intention for each session and are guided to connect with your inner wisdom and Higher Helpers and Guides (ones you know already or have never yet connected with). After a session you will likely feel more relaxed, grounded, and centered, and have a deeper and clearer perspective on yourself and the issues you brought to session.
Sessions with Children and Teens/Adults who don’t want to talk:
Children are especially suited to this type of work as they are skilled at expressing what is arising for them through creativity and imagination and respond quickly and effectively to energy work. We start a session working with the sand tray, art, or play to connect with what they needs to process. Then the child receives a gentle energy session to help them physically and energetically process what has arisen, release built up tension and stress, and strengthen their energy boundaries. When working with children I offer energy work to their family members when appropriate to positively impact the entire family system. Calming the nervous system of a child’s caretaker allows the child to co-regulate their own nervous systems to feel calm, safe, and grounded.
Through working with me using Soul Lightening Acupressure you may:
- Identify and strengthen your connection with your own inner/soul’s wisdom – you have the information inside of you to guide your own healing and development.
- Connect with your own inner wisdom, higher helpers, guides, and ancestors – relationships that can support you for the rest of your life.
- Heal and move beyond childhood conditioning and patterns of emotional reactions and begin to approach your life from the perspective of your grounded and healthy adult self.
- Discover how your inner critic and other inner voices/patterns that you developed in your early life have been working to protect you and help transform these patterns that no longer serve you into more supportive and loving inner voices.
- Transform and heal physical symptoms that may be connected to emotional patterns, past stress, or trauma. We carry memories and traumatic energy in our bodies that we can release to not only stop feeling that pain but also have that energy available to use in our lives at this moment.
- Feel deeply supported on your journey.
In-Person and Remote Sessions:
I see clients in person at my office in Petaluma. Meeting in person has the benefits of feeling connected to each other that comes from sharing the same space together, receiving the healing and calming energy from my garden, and experiencing gentle therapeutic touch.
I also offer remote sessions via phone or video. Through a remote session you will receive the same benefits of the energy work while resting in your own space. My clients have been benefiting from these remote sessions when they cannot come in person due to health issues, childcare/dependent care challenges, moving away, or scheduling. Highly beneficial sessions have happened with clients reclined in their car seats, lying on their living room floors, or their beds.
Photo credit for portrait and session images: Autumn Fuentes of Through Autumn’s Lens
Updated September 9, 2025