Understanding the body deepens our connection to ourselves and the world.
The body’s responses to overwhelming experiences can continue long after those experiences have passed. Somatic work offers a way to work with these responses, creating opportunities for an embodied sense of safety, greater choice, and deeper connection.
Somatics
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a body-centered approach to working with trauma symptoms and stress-related disorders. Trauma involves how the body, psyche, and nervous system respond to overwhelming experiences. SE works with physiological responses to support new patterns of safety and stability.
A prominent feature of SE is its ability to empower individuals without requiring them to narrate their lived experiences. Rather, its intention is to create enough safety to engage with self-protective responses such as fight, flight, freeze, fawn, and collapse, allowing for new experiences that support a greater sense of choice. Support of this process can lead to significant change for those experiencing anxiety, stress, depression, isolation, hopelessness, and numbness.
Somatic Touch
Somatic Touch draws on an advanced skill set that requires additional training beyond Somatic Experiencing. Practitioners use touch to support the physiology when working with developmental, relational, and attachment trauma.
Touch can support inner connection, awareness of boundaries, and a felt sense of safety. The work is guided by consent, attunement, and each person’s pace.
Intentional Touch
Intentional Touch supports client physiology through a virtual platform using guided attention, awareness, and intention. This allows somatic work to take place without in-person, hands-on touch.
Somatics of Emotions
Emotions can be experienced before we have the cognitive ability to remember, evaluate, or name them. Somatics of Emotions attends to the bodily and behavioral patterns through which emotions are expressed, including pre-cognitive and non-cognitive responses.
Through somatic interventions and practical skills, the work helps people navigate emotional states and recognize patterns that may no longer be useful.
Somatic Sexuality Healing
Somatic Sexuality Healing brings together body awareness and trauma-informed care to explore how past experiences shape our capacity for intimacy, pleasure, and connection. The work attends to patterns of tension, heightened arousal, or shutdown, supporting a greater sense of safety and choice in the body. Clear boundaries, ongoing consent, and a pace guided by each client are central to this process.
Ways to Work Together
Individual, Couples, and Group Sessions
Each session is shaped by the needs, lived experiences, and intentions of the individual, couple, or group. The work supports each person in developing somatic skills that foster a greater sense of safety, expand their capacity to meet life’s experiences, and support their own healing and well-being.
These offerings are shaped by the needs and interests of each audience and explore how biology, stress, trauma, and lived experience influence how we relate to ourselves, connect with others, and navigate personal and professional situations. Topics include somatic awareness, embodiment, relationships, and our relationship with money and work.
Speaking Engagements
Workshops
Team and Leadership Training
Professional Development
Customized Programs
Individual and Group Consultations
Retreats and Intensives
About Me
I’m a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with more than 700 hours of training in somatics, which includes my advanced somatic touch skills training.
I hold master’s degrees in Social Work and Speech-Language Pathology and am a Certified Yoga Therapist, Somatic Coach, Somatic Sexual Healing Practitioner, and Somatic Advanced Touch Skills Practitioner.
With more than 30 years of professional experience, I bring an integrated understanding of biology, lived experience, and relationships to my work with developmental, complex, and medical trauma.
