Somatic Experiencing: Healing Trauma Through Body Awareness
Trauma Resolution + Nervous-System Regulation
Healing Looks Like You
Our nervous systems are so intelligent that it takes very little for them to reconnect to their innate rhythm of resilience and literally re-member themselves. Whatever you are experiencing, whatever resources your body is using, regardless of whether they appear helpful or unhelpful, is actually your body trying to resource itself. This is why I always say, Healing looks like you! Not the future you, not the past you. Healing looks like you right now. When you learn to speak to your body in the language it understands, your own healing power is put back into your hands.
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The body doesn't speak English.
Schedule a preliminary free 30-minute consult here.
Somatic Experiencing sessions facilitate embodied trauma recovery by using the language of the nervous system. “Soma” simply means “body.” Our bodies may not speak English, but they are very intelligent and have many distinct ways of communicating. I will teach you how to listen to your nervous system and speak to it in the language it understands.
Trauma is not merely what happens to us; it is the way our autonomic nervous system responds to those events. When we face overwhelming experiences or prolonged periods of lack, our nervous systems instinctively choose protective responses to help us survive. Thank you, Body!
These responses (flight, fight, freeze) are intended to be temporary. However, in humans, these reactions often become stuck, leading to chronic states of hypervigilance, hypertonicity (tension patterns in the body), hypotonicity (numbness or disconnection from the body), and constant exhaustion.
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented therapeutic model that focuses on embodied trauma recovery. It is the lifelong work of Dr. Peter Levine.
These sessions are done online or in person, seated in a chair. Together we listen to your nervous system and see what is most supportive to it in the moment. From here there emerges a conversation where you and I listen together and decide which path to follow next.
This approach is non-pathologizing, non-clinical, and allows the body to choose the pace and physiological content to focus on. I will teach you how to settle and release biological activation from your body, facilitating nervous system regulation. You will learn the simplest and most up-to-date methods to update your nervous system to the present, allowing you more freedom to be curious, engaged with life, and at ease with yourself.
SE invites the body’s intelligence forward, allowing us to expand our awareness of the container of our body so there is more space for emotions and experiences to move in, through, and out.
My approach to trauma resolution is guided by my embodied understanding of the science of human healing and connection, as illuminated by Somatic Experiencing® International, The Polyvagal Theory, and Somatic Science®. Through my direct experience, I have found that blending these modalities with the ancient wisdom of Advaita Vedanta and Zhineng Qi Gong creates a direct path to healing and happiness.
This embodied learning has brought me peace without the need for constant physical movement or mental distraction and allowed me to rediscover my joy for being human. I look forward to sharing it with you!
SPECIALTIES:
Spiritual Thresholds
SE Touch
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adult Children (ACA)
Grief
SA & IPV
See our Resources page for a curated list of resources.
CREDENTIALS: I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner® (SEP) and a Trauma-Informed Yoga teacher. I am not a therapist, and this work is not a substitute for mental health care. Our collaboration is body-oriented and non-clinical. I recommend having a trauma therapist for any cognitive therapy needs.
SESSIONS: Our sessions are 50 minutes for $155. Currently only online sessions are available.
You may schedule a preliminary free 30-minute consult here.
SE COREGULATORY TOUCHWORK:
This in-person work is optional. It can be integrated within an SE session or the focus of a session.
This work centers the use of coregulatory touch (making contact with the body in a way that does not involve manipulation) as a way to support the self-communication between the individual and their body’s narrative and memory in service of healing.
To schedule an SE Touch session, use this form.
Common misconceptions about somatic approaches:
Misconception #1: We have to look inside the body right away and keep our attention focused inside.
- Clarification: More often we use the body's sensory apparatus to look outside the body (see the video below!) This allows the body to assess its own level of safety, move at its own pace, and decide when it's okay to look inside.
Misconception #2: There needs to be a cathartic experience for it to work.
- Clarification: Important, intelligent, meaningful information reveals itself in small ways, coming forward out of our collective listening. This does not always mean big emotional or bodily experiences.
Misconception #3: The more somatic techniques, the more effective the session.
- Clarification: Our nervous system is so intelligent that it actually takes very little to cue the nervous system into recognizing its own rhythm of resilience and what is helpful for It. One or two things can be more than enough.
Bring your own curiosity. You get to move at your own pace.
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