Benicia Therapist Helping Women Heal from Relationship Trauma
Because the most important relationship you’ll ever build is the one with yourself
I’m Simone Adkins, LMFT, a therapist in Benicia, CA, serving women in Benicia, Vallejo, and throughout the Bay Area. My work centers on helping women heal from relationship trauma — the kind that often starts in childhood and quietly shapes how we show up in friendships, romantic partners, and even professional life. I believe the most important relationship you’ll ever build is the one with yourself, because it’s the foundation for every connection that follows. In my practice, I use a somatic therapy approach that blends nervous system regulation, body awareness, and compassionate presence to help you restore safety, trust, and self-worth, so you can create relationships that feel healthy, supportive, and real.
My favorites: Laughing, connecting with people whom I feel safe with, the ocean, music, trying new foods, family fun nights at home, dancing, yoga and writing poetry/ short stories.
How I Work
This is the hard part: Talking about myself. How do you capture life experiences in a summary? Well, here goes my best effort:
I believe healing must include all aspects of our beings - or at least as much as we possibly can considering that our beings are dynamic, ever changing and sometimes difficult to define. Nonetheless, starting with acknowledging our many parts/ selves/ aspects is at least a step toward honoring and accepting ourselves. The heart of my work aims to do this. I love to support others with acknowledging, accepting, trusting and loving themselves bottoms ups, tops down, outside in, inside out and loving the part of yourself that's beyond the material, beyond attachment and beyond identity.
As I was taught early on: The healing is in the relationship and I've carried this with me because, it aligned so appropriately with how I've always viewed myself and the world...through the lens that everyone/ thing is in relationship with everyone/ thing. So, I've carried this statement with me and no matter the techniques, theoretical approaches and countless studies, I cultivate relationships with my clients and try to do so - even if it's just for a moment - with all whom I encounter.
Education
2015 - 2019
Master of Arts in Counseling
Saybrook University, California
2010 - 2014
Bachelor of Science in Human Services
University of Phoenix, California
License & Certifications
Licensure Information
Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, 137157 California Board of Behavioral Sciences
Havening Techniques
Certified Practitioner
Yoga Certification, RYT® 200
Integral Yoga Academy, 200-hour Teacher Training
San Francisco, CA
Somatic EMDR Therapy
(TM)
Somatic EMDR Practitioner
My Intentions and Commitments to You
I intend and commit to:
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Develop a safe relationship with you.
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Help you reduce internal suffering.
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Support you to increase your capacity for self-attunement and self-acceptance.
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Humbly walk alongside you.
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Help you to recognize and heal issues that make you feel stuck or limited.
I intend and commit to:
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Honor your sense of freedom over and within your life.
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Guide you to act and make choices that align with your values.
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Encourage the ripple effect that happens as you create healthy relationships with yourself, with others and your world.
An Encouragement to Find Your People
"The best advice I can offer anyone breathing in this world; find people that make you both soft and strong. People that hold you in tears and hold you accountable. People that show up to listen or help you fight. People that create safe places to land in a world that banks on your trauma. People that owe you nothing and still give you everything. People that see you even when they don’t see your path."
- Dr. Ashley Nash, PhD, NCC