The Undercurrent
A Relational Laboratory
Healing doesn't happen in a vacuum. It happens in relationships.
The Undercurrent is a space to practice being in one.
The Undercurrent is a six-week experiential relational laboratory for 10 people who want to explore how they show up in relationships—by understanding what happens in their body and nervous system, practicing new ways of relating in real time, and receiving thoughtful feedback about how they are experienced by others.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
You have an incredible amount of self-awareness. You know why you do what you do. You just haven’t been able to change it.
In a digital and AI-driven age, we are flooded with information, advice, and endless opportunities to optimize—reinforcing the belief that the answer lies in thinking harder, finding the right strategy, or fixing ourselves from the neck up.
We are relational therapists who firmly believe that relationships are the primary vehicle for healing. No one teaches us how to be in a relationship — we learn experientially. And for the vast majority of us, that education is deeply problematic.
We know that insight alone is insufficient for change, and we wanted to create a relational space where we could practice showing up differently together.
Trying to change a deeply ingrained pattern using just your intellect is like trying to learn how to dive by reading a manual.
You don’t need more information—you need a safe open water space to jump into.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
Inside the laboratory, you will:
Practice being in relationship within a small, intentionally created group—not just talk about relationships in theory.
Learn the language of your body and understand how sensations, nervous-system responses, and protective parts shape the way you connect in real time.
Receive concrete, compassionate feedback about how you show up in relationships and how others experience you.
Experiment with new ways of relating through guided practices focused on safety, intimacy, rupture, repair, and authentic connection.
Be supported by two relational therapists with advanced training in Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
The Undercurrent is for you if:
You want to access a deeper understanding of how you show up in relationships
You want to be in conversation with your heart and body and not just lead with your head
You keep repeating the same pattern and can’t seem to stop. This can show up as people pleasing, self-criticism, perfectionism, over functioning or anything else that stops you from connecting authentically
You want to learn to track what happens to your nervous system in relationships
You have a lot of insight and it hasn’t led to the change you want in relationship to yourself and others
We met in graduate school almost a decade ago while training to become marriage and family therapists. We found healing not just in the tools we learned, but in our relationship with one another. We saw and celebrated parts of each other that were hard to see in ourselves. Our capacity to heal swelled in our friendship.
The Undercurrent is our way of offering that to others.
Meet your Guides in The Undercurrent
Leah Fishbein, LMFT
Based in Mexico City| Owner of SunPath Psychotherapy
wwww.sunpathsychotherapy.com
Leah is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist based in Mexico City with a clinical practice based in Illinois. She specializes in helping people improve their relationships with themselves and others. She is Level-2 trained in Internal Family Systems and serves as a Program Assistant for the IFS Institute. She is Adjunct Faculty for Northwestern University’s Masters in Marriage and Family Therapy Program. In her free time, you can find her climbing mountains, exploring different parts of Mexico, and with her nose in a novel.
Our Approach
We combine Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems. Somatic Experiencing helps you understand how your body holds stress and safety. Internal Family Systems offers a framework for understanding how you are not a singular entity but composed of many “parts” or sub-personalities each with its own history and role. The Undercurrent weaves these approaches together so you understand how your parts show up in relationship and in your body.
Gabriela Ucrós, Psychologist, LMFT
Based in Los Angeles | Owner of Sirena Psychotherapy
www.sirenapsychotherapy.com
Gabriela is trained as a psychologist in Universidad de Los Andes, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist form Northwester University, Somatic Practitioner in Training at Intermediate Level. With over a decade of international experience spanning Colombia, New Zealand, and the U.S., she specializes in helping clients move out of their heads and into deep, embodied connection. When she isn't in the therapy space, you can find her running, or going on adventurous hikes and trips with her partner and her 13 month old son.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
The six-week arc
We’ve intentionally developed a six-week experiential curriculum that takes participants through the arc of relationship: meeting, creating safety, building intimacy, rupture, repair and integration. Each week, a core skill is taught and participants are guided through an experiment to apply the skill in real time with one another. Each week builds upon the practices of the previous week.
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Tuesday September 22, 2026
Tracking what happens within you – your body, your nervous system, your parts – the moment you enter into a new space and new relationships. Learning the language of the body’s initial reaction to novelty — before your mind has had time to form an opinion. -
Tuesday September 29, 2026
Before we can connect with others, we learn to connect with ourselves. How do I create safety, security, and belonging within my own body and environment? We build the internal and external resources that will hold us through everything that comes next. -
Tuesday October 6, 2026
What happens when you start interacting with someone else? We move from tracking our own environmental activation to noticing the specific, textured responses that arise when relationships begin — and practice holding what gets stirred with curiosity rather than reactivity.
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Tuesday October 13, 2026
Where the intrapersonal meets the interpersonal. What happens within me influences what happens between us. When something gets activated within me, how does that show up in my body and color the relationship I am forming with others? -
Tuesday October 20, 2026
What if you could do it differently? This week we return to the dance — but with new moves. Practicing what becomes possible when we show up from a different place. -
Tuesday October 27, 2026
Co-regulation, authentic intimacy, and the somatic experience of saying goodbye. We return to where we began — but everything is different now. A space to receive, to offer, and to land. To feel what becomes possible when you lead from within.
Why we created this
In a time when we exist and relate in digital spaces more than we do “in real life” we all are craving going back to basics; putting our feet on the ground, connecting human to human, not outsourcing our ways of knowing.
The Undercurrent is a space to do just that.
To understand who we truly are, we need to learn how to build capacity to stay with what is inside of us. Not just from a space of self awareness, but really learning how to be with – without running, without shutting down, without feeling completely overwhelmed.
The Undercurrent is designed to practice how to be in relationship with yourself and relationship with others in real time and take all the lessons to your relationships outside of this container.
We have experienced, time and time again, the quiet magic of what happens in a therapeutic relationship. The felt sense of being truly seen by a compassionate, attuned witness, is one of the most profound catalysts for change we know.
We've watched it happen in our work with clients. We've felt it happen between us in our friendship. Parts of ourselves that had been in hiding for years began to soften, not because of a technique or a framework, but because of the relationship itself. Because someone was there, steady and present.
That is what we wanted to build The Undercurrent around.
Not a curriculum. Not a set of tools. But the lived experience of being seen — and the practice of learning to see others — in real time, together.
Because what we know, after years of sitting in the therapy office, is this: the attachment is not a by-product of healing. It is healing.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
What Sets The Lab Apart
From Insight to Action: We weave together Somatic Experiencing (how your body holds stress and safety) and Internal Family Systems (how your protective sub-personalities show up) so you can shift patterns in real time.
Body-Based Safety: Learn to track subtle nervous system signals so you can stay present during activation instead of defaulting to self-defense.
The "Re-Do": Pause moments of tension and experiment with new ways of showing up with expert therapists support every step of the way.
The Undercurrent Report: Receive curated, written relational feedback from the facilitators and other members of the group detailing what it’s actually like to be in relationship with you—removing the guesswork and illuminating your relational impact.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
What your journey includes
Like a wave, the Undercurrent follows an arc of activation, release, and integration.
Six weekly 90-minute group laboratory sessions, co-facilitated by two therapists trained in Somatic Experiencing and Internal Family Systems.
Two private 30-minute coaching integration sessions – with each of the facilitators. At the close of the arc, each member is offered a 30-minute integration session with each facilitator — to be booked within one month of the final group session. This is an individual space to name what has shifted, what is still moving, and where you want to go from here.
The Self Guide: A companion through the Undercurrent – A workbook to guide you through deeper exploration and integration between the sessions. This includes journal prompts, meditations, and resources.
Lifetime access to Somatic Waves — an audio series of twelve micro-moments of regulation based on researched-back therapeutic interventions. Each micro-moment reinforces a skill explored in The Lab. This gives you the opportunity to practice and integrate the relationship you are building with your body outside The Lab.
The Undercurrent Report – Thoughtful feedback from all participants around what it is like to be in a relationship with you. What surfaced within and between participants will be collected and shared in thoughtful written feedback by the facilitators.
Investment and Registration:
$950 — offered in two installments of $475
LABOR DAY SALE: $900- offered in two installments $450
The Lab meets weekly on Tuesday evenings from September 22nd - Tuesday, October 27th for 90 minutes via Zoom MST: 5:30 PM- 7:00pm, CST: 6:30 PM- 8:00 pm , EST: 7:30 PM- 9:00pm, PST: 4:30 pm - 6:00pm
Step Beneath the Surface
Book a 15-minute consultation call to determine fit. From there, participants will receive a confirmation email with logistical information.
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Start with a 15-minute call with one of the facilitators to see if The Undercurrent feels like the right fit.
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We are intentionally keeping things small and intimate to allow for safety and depth. There will be a maximum of 10 participants.
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Yes attendance to every session is required for you to get the whole arc of the experience
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No, this is not covered by insurance, as this is not a therapy group.
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No experience is required though it is helpful to have some familiarity with the modalities.
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You will book a 15-minute consultation call to determine fit. From there, participants will receive a confirmation email with logistical information.
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Please join our waiting list for future offerings.
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No, this is experiential, relational, depth work. Prior experience with individual therapy is recommended but not required.
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The Undercurrent is for people curious to explore how and why they relate. All genders are welcome. There is no age range. Everyone is welcome here
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No. To keep the intimacy of the space and the confidentiality of the participants, sessions will not be recorded.