Meet Rachel
Founder of Sage My Soul.
Hi, I’m Rachel Herrera — founder of Sage My Soul, behavioral health clinician, PsyD student, mother, military spouse, and someone who has spent much of her life learning how people survive, heal, reconnect, and return to themselves.
Sage My Soul grew from my personal relationship with the ocean, my clinical work, my lived experience as a mother and caregiver, and my belief that healing is not something we force. It is something we create conditions for.
Why Sage My Soul exists
The ocean first became home to me during my teenage years.
At a time when life felt overwhelming and I did not yet have language for what I was carrying, I found myself returning to the beaches of Santa Cruz. I would sit with my art journal, search for sand dollars, wander through small artist shops, and let the rhythm of the shoreline hold what felt too heavy to carry alone.
At first, I thought I was escaping. Over time, I realized it was not an escape. It was a return.
The ocean gave me space, rhythm, beauty, and quiet. It reminded me that feelings move, that grief has a current, and that healing does not always arrive through answers. Sometimes it begins when we feel witnessed by something larger than ourselves.
Years later, after studying psychology, trauma, attachment, mindfulness, Internal Family Systems, and nervous system science, I realized many of the principles I was learning had already been whispered to me by the shoreline.
The language was different. The wisdom was the same. Sage My Soul was born from that realization.
A grounded, trauma-informed approach
My work is shaped by clinical training, community behavioral health, trauma-informed care, family systems, attachment, mindfulness, nervous system regulation, and years of experience supporting individuals and families through complex seasons of life.
Sage My Soul exists at the intersection of evidence-informed practice and ancient, nature-based wisdom.
It is where science meets ritual. Where education meets experience. Where community becomes part of the healing environment.
My hope
My hope is that Sage My Soul becomes a place where women can breathe again.
A place to be witnessed without needing to perform. A place to practice rest, regulation, reflection, and reconnection.
A place to remember that no matter how far life carries you from yourself, you can always come back.