Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

I use somatic awareness and yoga therapy.

Somatic Experiencing is a form of alternative therapy aimed at treating trauma and stress-related disorders, such as post-traumatic stress disorder. The primary goal of SE is to modify the trauma-related stress response through bottom-up processing

I specialize in a somatic-based approach, helping clients reconnect with their bodies to release stored trauma and emotional tension. By integrating body awareness with mindfulness, I guide clients in recognizing physical sensations linked to past experiences. This approach promotes healing by facilitating a deeper connection to the body, reducing stress, and restoring balance. Through somatic practices, clients can process emotions more effectively and cultivate a greater sense of grounding and

Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body’s wisdom, releasing stored tension and trauma. By tuning into physical sensations, you can achieve mind-body alignment and emotional attunement, promoting greater resilience and overall well-being.

Somatic therapy integrates body awareness with psychological healing. It recognizes that our bodies hold valuable information about our experiences and emotions. Through gentle techniques, clients explore physical sensations, movements, and postures to access deeper self-understanding. By fostering present-moment awareness and using the body as a resource, this approach facilitates healing from trauma, personal growth, and a more harmonious mind-body relationship.

Somatic Psychology (body mind psychotherapy, body-oriented psychotherapy, etc.) is a holistic form of therapy that respects and utilizes the powerful connection between body, mind, and spirit. How we are in this world, how we relate to ourselves and others, is not just purely about the mind or our thoughts, but it is also deeply rooted in our bodies and our spirits. Unlike traditional talk therapy or cognitive therapy, Somatic Psychology tends to be more experiential.

If thoughts are the language of our mind, emotions and sensations are the language of our body, except most of us were never taught how to speak the body's language. Somatic therapy helps clients learn the language of their mind-body system, which has been shown by evidence to help people: make decisions, manage mental health symptoms, resolve trauma, relieve physical symptoms and chronic pain, improve performance, deepen connections and increase overall wellness. I offer Somatic Experiencing.

I support clients to learn from and connect to their somatic experience throughout our working together. Somatic therapy practices helps to foster that mind-body connection that further supports a person to live authentically (:

Somatic Therapies focus on body awareness, sensations and physical symptoms to guide your body in releasing trauma and allowing you to move from fight or flight to a state of bodily peace. These therapies focus on 'bottom up' (or your bodies experience) rather than 'Top down' (cognitive) approaches that use thoughts to try to control your feelings. While our thoughts are very important if we have experienced trauma or complex trauma cognitive approaches alone may are unlikely to be enough.

Somatic Therapy emphasizes the mind-body connection and focuses on recognizing- and healing from trauma imprints in the body. The goal is to release and resolve traumatic experience while restoring a sense of safety within the body. Somatic techniques are rooted in Polyvagal Theory and focus on cultivating a healthy nervous system. Restoring a healthy nervous system creates an internal sense of wellbeing, emotional stability, connection, aliveness, competence, and an ability to self-regulate.

I lead clients in re-connecting to their bodies and better understanding and attuning to the subtle messages our bodies communicate to us; as well as aiding in exploration and release or expression of trauma, emotions, and experiences by connecting to the body's inner wisdom and signs. I help clients who experience alexythimia (difficulty deciphering or feeling emotions), interoceptive awareness difficulties, or trauma that makes their body feel unfamiliar or unsafe re-connect and heal.

When we slow down and pay attention to our bodies, old or previously unattended to memories and patterns can clarify, and then we can actually work with them; we can see how prior experiences influenced or created patterns within us, and then we might renegotiate them: we can uncouple unhelpful beliefs from one another, create new belief systems that more accurately reflect our values or adult autonomy, or make new meaning out of an old experience, now with more perspective and compassion.

I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that felt senses mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom

as a client in therapy myself, i have experienced profoundly transformative shifts through somatic therapies. our bodies are inherently designed to process through trauma; unfortunately, many minds have been taught to override this organic process. slow, somatic practice creates opportunities to reconnect with our felt-sense, strengthen body-mind communication, and allow our bodies to tap into their natural healing capacities.

Utilizing tools found within sensorimotor psychotherapy, somatic experiencing, pain reprocessing therapy, as well as mindfulness and guided visualization, much of my work is grounded in the mind-body relationship and providing tools to support a client in enhancing awareness of this connection as well as regulating the nervous system.

SE is body-oriented approach to the healing of trauma and other stress disorders developed by Dr. Peter Levine. It offers a framework to assess where you are “stuck” in the fight, flight or freeze responses and provides clinical tools to resolve these fixated physiological states by focusing on body sensations and releasing stuck energy while building upon and strengthening your resiliency.

Body-Centered therapy operates from the belief that emotional issues (e.g. stress, trauma, anxiety, grief, depression) manifest as physical symptoms and that healing occurs when the mind-body connection is strengthened. Somatic therapy supports clients in connecting to “the messages of the body” in order to provide deep understanding, healing, and transformation.

Somatic body-based therapy is a holistic approach that emphasizes the connection between the mind and body in healing trauma and emotional distress. By focusing on bodily sensations, movements, and breath, this therapy helps you release stored tension and trauma from the body, leading to greater emotional resilience, reduced anxiety, and a deeper sense of well-being. Ideal for those looking to heal from trauma, chronic stress, and physical manifestations of emotional issues.

Somatic counseling invites the experience of the body into the therapeutic process including breath, internal sensations, postures, gestures, and expressive movements. ​Developing our ability to notice and listen to these embodied experiences is the most direct path to increasing self-awareness of our emotions, patterns, identities, values, needs, and desires.