Somatic therapy for people who feel stuck and are craving a new experience.
A body-based approach to working with trauma, anxiety, and deeply ingrained patterns.
Somatic therapy is a form of healing that works with the body as a source of information, memory, and change.
my approach to somatic therapy
People often come into therapy with many stories about what they’ve lived through, and many thoughts about those stories. A great deal of therapy can be spent making space for them, witnessing them, and trying to make sense of what happened. Sometimes, that is the work.
But insight alone is often not enough for lasting change. Many people already understand their patterns well. What they need is not more explanation, but a new experience.
My work is relational and experiential, guided by somatic therapy. Rather than focusing only on thoughts or narratives, I also pay close attention to how stress, trauma, and emotion are carried and expressed in the body. As you share your experiences, we track shifts in your nervous system and notice how your body responds in real time. We don’t try to rush past or ‘fix’ anything.
I might ask questions like:
What do you notice happening in your body as you say that?
Would it be okay if we stayed with that feeling?
Is that sensation more like pressure, warmth, or movement?
What does your body want to do right now?
What’s it like to notice this while you’re talking to me?
You can expect moments of talking, moments of pausing, and moments of gently tracking sensations, emotions, or impulses as they arise. We stay with feelings longer than you’re used to. We notice when your system wants to speed up, change the subject, or disconnect. We get curious about why.
Nothing is forced. We work within what feels tolerable, building your capacity to stay present rather than pushing you past your limits. Over time, this creates shifts that feel lived rather than managed: emotions move, reactions soften, and choice becomes possible where there once was only habit.
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When we face threat, loss, or prolonged pressure, the nervous system adapts. These adaptations (tension, shutdown, hypervigilance, emotional flooding) once helped you cope. Over time, they can become limiting, even when you understand them intellectually.
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Because these responses are learned physiologically, they don’t always shift through thinking or talking alone. Somatic therapy works at the level where these patterns actually live: in breath, posture, sensation, and rhythm.
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This work does not try to control the body or push it into change. Instead, it listens carefully to what the body is communicating and works with it respectfully.
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Somatic therapy does not involve reliving trauma or pushing past your limits. Attention to safety, consent, and pacing is central, especially when working with stress and trauma.
why the body matters
how somatic therapy helps
GREATER EMOTIONAL CAPACITY
Feelings become easier to tolerate, move through, and understand without overwhelm.
REDUCED REACTIVITY
The nervous system no longer needs to stay on constant alert.
EMBODIED STEADINESS
A growing sense of internal stability rather than constant self-management
MORE CHOICE
Responses begin to feel flexible instead of automatic.
this is for you if....
You understand yourself well. You can name your patterns and where they come from, but you’re still stuck in them.
Your body stays tense or alert. You overthink, shut down, or push through exhaustion. You intellectualize your emotions as opposed to feeling them.
Somatic therapy works by engaging these patterns directly, at the level where they live: in the body and nervous system. Over time, reactions soften, emotions move more freely, and steadiness replaces the need to hold everything together.
This approach often resonates with people who’ve done therapy before and know that insight alone wasn’t enough.
“If the body were not the soul, what is the soul?”
— Walt Whitman, I Sing the Body Electric