Ky Ngo Dennis

Ky (pronounced "key") is the owner of the San Diego-based practice, Spiritual Somatic Therapist. As a licensed marriage and family therapist, she has helped hundreds of clients work through issues of trauma, loss, and disconnection over the last fifteen years. She brings to the healing space a calming presence and strong intuitive guidance rooted in both the human experience and spiritual wisdom.

Having grown up in a working-class immigrant family, Ky has a deep understanding of how traumatic life experiences and cultural pressures can inhibit us from living an authentic and purposeful life. She dived into the world of healing at a young age and has had personal experience with a wide breadth of healing modalities. Her own journey has deeply shaped how she practices, with an embodied knowing of what helps clients feel safe and supported in the therapeutic relationship.

Ky's unique style blends somatic techniques — including Accelerated Resolution Therapy using eye movements, acupressure-based breathwork, somatic Internal Family Systems, and polyvagal theory — with spiritually-inspired practices such as guided imagery, energy work, and Buddhist teachings. She strives to integrate practices and concepts indigenous to her Asian culture.

She has been a student of Buddhism, energy medicine, and spiritual teachings for over twenty years, and is also heavily influenced by post-modern thought. Prior to becoming a therapist, she worked to advocate for the environment and animals. She lives in San Diego with her family, and outside of work enjoys playing the piano, gardening, all things comedy, and doting on her daughter and two cats.