If you’re ready to…

• Finally release the stuck, stagnant & suppressed emotions & trauma that have been holding you back.

• Reduce anxiety, stress & overwhelm so you can feel safe in your body.

• Improve your mood & focus by freeing yourself from that constant tired but wired energy.

• Develop a relationship with your body where you feel calm, connected & compassionate.

• Sleep soundly, knowing you’ll wake up refreshed & ready to face the day.

Somatic work is often the missing piece of your puzzle… Because you can’t think your way out of unprocessed emotions & stuck trauma. You can’t tell your body to feel safe with only your thoughts. But you can learn to heal & discover your mind-body connection – slowly & safely.

What Issues Is Somatic Therapy Effective For?

Somatic therapy is well-suited for any issues for which one would typically seek therapy, such as anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, stress, interpersonal problems, low self-esteem, life transitions, social anxiety, unhelpful relational patterns, sleeping issues, coping skills, spiritual crises, and more.

Why Include your Body in Psychotherapy?

In our increasingly busy and virtual world, most of us rarely find the opportunity to slow down and pay attention to our inner life. In somatic, or body-centered therapy (soma is Greek for body), we deepen our conversation by paying close attention to your experience of inhabiting a physical body in the here and now. Your body is never silent; through sensations, expressions, postures, gestures, and fidgets, it “speaks” in a language that carries deep personal meaning and history for each of us. Likewise, your body “remembers” much that the mind may not. By mindfully attuning to your body’s language and listening to its profound memory, you gain more focused access to the core wounds underlying current psychological issues.

What Happens in a Session?

Like every kind of therapy, somatic therapy includes supportive dialogue exploring the themes in your life that feel painful or stuck. However, rather than just talking, analyzing, and strategizing, somatic therapy offers abundant opportunities to slow down and give mindful attention to how these issues occur in you in real time. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is required; as I will gently guide you toward mindful self-awareness and support you in bringing sustained, compassionate curiosity to your present experience. When we are able to witness ourselves with interest and care, new possibilities have space to emerge.

My approach to trauma treatment helps you:

• Learn how to resource and soothe your nervous system in moments of stress.

• Feel safer in your body and in the world.

• Reconnect with your inner power and resilience.

• Open up to nourishing connections and relationships.

• Be released from negative beliefs formed in the wake of trauma.

• Unlock the growth potential that comes with enduring a traumatic experience.

• Become curious and accepting toward parts of your life that has felt unacceptable or shameful.

• Identifying and understanding your core beliefs or “protector parts”, those survival strategies you developed in childhood that can create limits and stuck-ness in adulthood and helping them transform.

• Rewiring the neural pathways behind limiting beliefs and habitual reactions.

• Learning how to respond tenderly rather than avoidantly to your sad and scared moments.

• Experimenting with new ways of moving, communicating, and relating that break us out of limiting patterns.

…and much more.

I look forward to getting to know you and helping you create the life you want.