Somatic Therapy helps individuals discover, or rediscovery, the resiliency to step into life experiences as embodied beings capable of navigating life’s most difficult challenges. Through somatic work, innate body-wisdom becomes a natural state as we break free of fossilized identities and exist in a state of becoming and emerging. Physical pain, emotional difficulties (such an anxiety, panic, depression, and frustration) and other primary complaint symptoms often decrease and sometimes disappear.

Somatic Therapy is a collaborative practice between client and therapist, between you and me, where we discover together how to create the best initial conditions for you to recover and build upon your resilience, ease and resourcefulness. I gently guide, listen, witness and reflect.

Somatic practice includes educational components, helping you to understand and build a deeper relationship with your body- wisdom, emotional states, and nervous system. My primary training in somatic therapy is with Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® model. I am currently an Intermediate Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner in Training. I will move into the Advanced Training Level in the Summer of 2026. I have also studied Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giaretto, Jungian Somatics with Jane Clapp, Sensorimotor Art Therapy with Cornelia Elbrecht, Neurodivergence and Trauma with Janae Elisabeth and Mytho-somatics with Joshua Schrei. I am also in an extended long-term study of TantraSoma with Thessa Sophia and Fleur Innana, a somatic container building awareness through body consciousness exploration and movement.

My understanding of the somatic experience is broad and depth seeking. While I understand and provide education on multiple models of the nervous system, my focus does does not rest on nervous system down-regulation or “regulating” you, but on increasing your body awareness and your ability to explore repressed emotion, feeling states, and interior physical sensations. We do this work together in curiosity: allowing, accepting, surrendering to the enfolding and unfolding movements of your natural somatic states. Somatic exploration is about relationship - being witnessed and being the witness.

In session I may use any of the following: somatic based art therapy called bi-lateral body mapping, guided meditations, movement, touch, active imagination, art, music, sound, voice work, interoception, exteroception, proprioception, equilibrioception, and neuroception to gently guide individuals into a more conscious relationship with their bodies. We unpack myths and personal narratives while building meaning and ritual to celebrate you.

I follow a staged approach beginning with safety and stabilization, fostering self-regulation and trust in the therapeutic relationship before proceeding with the processing of deeper traumatic material.