meet the founder
Hi, I’m Amata Albero, the founder of Soma Core™.
I’m a trauma informed and holistic practitioner supporting individuals and groups through embodied, integrative processes that draw from depth-oriented and contemplative practices.
Over the past decade, I’ve worked as a licensed clinician in the field of mental health with a focus on relational, integrative, and trauma-informed care. My background includes training in East–West Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, EMDR, Psychedelic Education, and Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy—a foundation that has allowed me to weave the clinical with the contemplative, the psychological with the soulful.
And yet, beneath the professional path runs a more personal story—one that shaped the heart of Soma Core™.
I raised my now adult child as a single mother and immigrant, navigating systems of justice and care that often left me unseen and disempowered. Those experiences revealed how deeply personal pain mirrors systemic imbalance—how the struggle to belong and be valued is not just individual but collective.
As a woman who has known sexual trauma and physical injury, I have had to continually reshape my relationship with body, intimacy, and trust—especially as I now enter menopause, a threshold that continues to teach me new forms of embodiment, sovereignty, and grace.
I was raised Catholic, carrying both the beauty and the wounding of that inheritance—the silencing of the feminine, the fear of the mystical, the deep imprint of religious trauma and the witch wound. My life radically changed as I began to return to earth-based forms of spirituality—through plant medicine, purification and prayer rituals, and ancestral ceremonies. These practices helped me illuminate the impact of religious trauma in my sense of self and reclaim a direct and living relationship with Spirit grounded in the natural world. They restored what organized religion had severed: an animistic sense of belonging to all of life. Emerging from the long void that once defined my experience through years marked by depression, anxiety, disconnection and relational rupture, I came to know spirituality not as doctrine, but as inclusive relationship to and belonging within a larger living whole.
Through it all, nature has been my temple and my teacher—the place where my faith lives most truly. I have found prayer in wind and water, belonging in fire and soil, and guidance in the council of the elements and the ancestors.
These lived initiations became inseparable from my professional calling. Over time, I began to sense the limits of a system that often reduces human experience to symptoms and labels. What I longed for—and what I now hold space for through Soma Core™—is a return to soul: a way of tending the deeper wounds of disconnection, internalized oppression, and ancestral fragmentation with reverence and integrity.
Through years of study, practice, and unlearning, Soma Core™ was born—a synthesis of what I’ve come to trust most: That healing is not about fixing but remembering. That the body carries wisdom words alone cannot reach. And that integration unfolds not only in the mind, but across the physical, emotional, relational, ancestral, and spiritual dimensions of our being.
This work is both a return and an evolution—a call to heal the soul wound, to reclaim embodiment, and to grow into the elders of the future: those who stand for justice, wholeness, and the remembrance of what is sacred.
Through Soma Core™, I offer individual sessions, group work, and family system sessions. I also host intensive residence programs in California and Italy.
If you’re curious about the story behind this path and how it might illuminate your own process of healing and self-reclamation, I’d love to share a copy of the Soma Core™Companion Guide.
An invitation to remember what’s already whole within you.
Leslie, DANCER & EMBODIMENT TEACHER, California
Soma Core™ met me at a time when I was navigating layers of personal and family history that felt bigger than me.I was feeling deeply frustrated in my relationship with my husband, and stuck and dissatisfied in my life as an artist.
These sessions brought me back to something simple and essential—the experience of human touch, the ability to hold and to be held. Through this process, something began to open: a deeper well of experience, curiosity, and presence.
Amata’s way of holding feels profound—like a mother’s love and a grandmother’s wisdom woven together.