Sophie Frank, MA, LAMFT

Hi, I’m Sophie!
 

I’m a therapist who helps individuals and couples feel more connected to themselves, their bodies, and the people they love.
 

Maybe you’ve been through a health issue, chronic pain, trauma, or a major life change, and you don’t quite feel like yourself anymore.
 

You might understand what you’re going through on an intellectual level, but still feel disconnected from your body. Maybe your body has started to feel like something you have to manage rather than a part of yourself you can trust. Or maybe you’re feeling the impact in your relationships, your confidence, your identity, or your ability to feel close to the people you care about.
 

I believe our minds, bodies, and relationships are deeply connected. My work is about helping you understand those connections, get curious about the patterns that have shaped you, and find ways to feel more present and connected in your life.
 

CHRONIC ILLNESS & CHRONIC PAIN: RECONNECTING WITH YOUR BODY
 

When your health changes, it can change the way you experience yourself.

Living with chronic illness, chronic pain, or another significant health experience can affect so much more than your physical health.

You may feel frustrated with your body or betrayed by it. You might miss the person you were before your health changed. You may find yourself constantly monitoring symptoms or worrying about what your body will do next. Your relationships, sexuality, independence, and sense of identity can shift, too.
 

Before becoming a therapist, I spent several years working in healthcare and social services, including sexual health education and medical case management. I supported people navigating serious and often overwhelming health conditions, and those experiences shaped the way I understand the relationship between physical health and emotional well-being.

I especially enjoy helping people explore what it means to live in and reconnect with a body that has been through something.
 

That doesn’t mean forcing yourself to love your body or pretending that pain and illness aren’t hard. It means making space for the complicated parts while finding ways to feel more grounded, present, and connected to yourself again.
 

SOMATIC & TRAUMA-INFORMED THERAPY
 

Sometimes you can understand why you feel the way you do and still feel stuck.

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You might know where a pattern comes from. You might even be able to explain exactly why you react a certain way. But insight alone doesn’t always change what happens when your body tenses, you shut down, you feel overwhelmed, or you automatically fall back into an old way of coping.

This is where I bring a somatic approach into therapy.

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Along with talking through what you’re experiencing, we can pay attention to what is happening in your body and what it might be communicating. We can get curious about the ways your body has learned to respond to stress, trauma, relationships, and difficult experiences.

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The goal isn’t to analyze every sensation or to make you feel more aware of your body than you want to be. It’s to help you understand yourself more fully and have more choice in how you respond.

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THERAPY FOR SELF-EXPLORATION, IDENTITY & LIFE TRANSITIONS

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You don’t need to be in crisis to want to understand yourself better.

Sometimes therapy is about figuring out what happened. Sometimes it’s about figuring out who you are now.

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You may be navigating a transition, exploring your identity or sexuality, processing trauma, working through a difficult relationship, or questioning patterns that no longer feel like they fit.

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I enjoy working with people who are curious about themselves and want the space to explore the different experiences, identities, relationships, and systems that have shaped who they are.

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I work with people across identities and backgrounds, including queer women and LGBTQ+ clients. I am a Latina, cisgender bisexual woman, and the daughter of an immigrant. These parts of my identity inform how I think about culture, family, community, belonging, and lived experience while remaining curious about what those things mean to you.

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COUPLES THERAPY FOR INTIMACY, COMMUNICATION & CONNECTION

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You can love each other and still feel disconnected.

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Maybe you keep having the same argument without ever really resolving it. Maybe you’re communicating, but you don’t feel understood. Maybe physical intimacy has changed, or you feel more like roommates than partners lately.

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Sometimes that distance develops slowly. Other times, something changes the relationship.

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Trauma, chronic illness, pain, pregnancy, becoming parents, health concerns, and major life transitions can all affect the way partners relate to one another, both emotionally and physically.

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I work with couples who want to understand what is happening beneath the conflict or distance and find their way back to feeling more connected.

Together, we can explore the patterns that keep showing up between you, strengthen communication, and work through the emotional and physical pieces of intimacy. I work with couples across sexual orientations and relationship structures.

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MY APPROACH TO THERAPY

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I want to understand you in the context of your whole life, not just the problem that brought you to therapy.

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My approach is collaborative, systemic, relational, and somatically informed.

That means I’m interested in what you’re thinking and feeling, but also in your body, relationships, family, culture, identity, health experiences, and the larger systems that have shaped your life.

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I don’t see therapy as a place where I sit back and tell you what’s wrong with you. I see it as a space where we can be curious together.

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We’ll look at the patterns that have helped you get through difficult things, understand what may no longer be working, and explore what you want to do differently. My hope is that therapy helps you understand yourself more deeply while making changes that feel authentic to who you are and the life you want to live.

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You don’t have to have all of that figured out before you start.

We can start with where you are.

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A LITTLE ABOUT ME

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Outside of therapy, I prioritize my own self-care by taking photos, being in nature, strength training, and frequenting different karaoke nights around the city.