Somatic Experiencing

Somatic Experiencing offers a body-based approach to healing, which is crucial in emotional regulation and trauma recovery. If you feel overwhelmed by the challenging waves of big emotion, intense energy, chronic pain, or by the ongoing challenges that life brings, Somatic Experiencing can help you learn to ride the waves of life with greater ease.

Somatic Experiencing restores your connection to your body, bringing you home to the present moment and your innate power.

Somatic Experiencing is a body-centered therapeutic healing modality created by Dr. Peter Levine. This internationally recognized approach focuses on helping you release stored tension, stress, energy, and trauma that are held in the body.

If your nervous system is dysregulated, you may feel overwhelmed, anxious, stressed, angry, depressed, or shut down. In our work together, the goal is to achieve emotional regulation, which helps you to be more able to manage the stresses of daily life without being overwhelmed. Through our work together I help you become literate in reading the signs of your body so you can feel more embodied, and empowered, experience life beyond survival mode, build confidence to advocate for your needs, have agency over your life, and build a strong and resilient sense of self that enables you to move through the ever-changing tides of life with ease. 

Somatic Experiencing is designed to assist people in developing a higher level of tolerance for intense and painful emotions and physical sensations. The more the client can learn to navigate the ever-changing tides of life and sensation, the more capacity and agency they have access to in their lives. Somatic Experiencing helps the client to reclaim their vital life force energy so they can move forward in an empowered and unhindered way.

How I Work:

I combine the foundational work of Somatic Experiencing with practices taken from my 24 years of healing practice, including: shamanic soul and power retrieval, connection to your inner resources, mindfulness practice, guided meditation and visualization, parts work, and inner child work. Sessions are tailored to your unique needs each time we meet.

Somatic Experiencing can help you with:

• chronic emotional dysregulation

• Procrastination and lack of motivation

• feelings of overwhelm

• Recovery from surgery

• recovery from shock trauma (accidents, natural disasters, attack, etc.)

• Recovery from emotional trauma

• anxiety and panic attacks

• self-blame and self-hate

• feelings of powerlessness

• despair and hopelessness

• reconnecting to your body and your innate power

• Managing chronic pain

• PTSD/CPTSD

• insomnia and sleep issues

• Navigating grief, loss, and life transitions

• depression/shut down/emotional collapse/numbness

• Boundary issues

• Reclaiming resilience

• Issues with Focus

• Syndromes, such as autoimmune conditions, cancer, and other complex conditions

• Learn how to regulate your nervous system

• work with codependency and relational issues

I offer in-person and virtual Somatic Experiencing sessions.