Soma speaks to the body and the deep intelligence held within your physical form.

Shen is a Taoist and Chinese Medicine concept that refers to the radiance of your spirit. It is said to be the part of you that comes from the Divine, lives in your heart, and shines brightly through your eyes in moments when you feel fully alive, connected to yourself, and in radiant harmony with the world around you.

Soma and Shen is about the Homecoming to Wholeness, both of Body and Spirit. 

Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a specific ground breaking therapeutic method developed by Dr. Peter Levine, PhD, to help ease and release the patterns of stress, shock, and trauma that become stuck in the body and nervous system. 

The body can hold a imprint stress or trauma that can stored as a feeling, pain, numbness, tightness, dissociation, or strong emotional response if it has not been processed. Skillful SE moves at the speed at which you body builds trust with it, meeting you exactly where you are, as you are. SE helps builds nervous system flexibility and resilience in a way that is unique to you, helping you navigate triggers both inside and outside our sessions together. SE helps you discover how your body is always been protecting, guiding, and supporting you the best way it could at any given time. When you shift from battling your body to becoming teammates with it, an wonderful sense of understanding, healing, and connection can unfold. 

Qigong, or chi gong, (pronounced "chee-gong"), is a branch of Traditional Chinese Medicine that combines gentle movement, breath, and meditation to work with vital energy. 

Qi means energy, and Gong means skillful work, so qigong is the art of working skillfully with your own life force. It's one of those things that have to be directly experienced to truly begin to understand it, like being in love or the heaviness of grief. Even after a single qigong class, I often notice a shift where people’s eyes soften, brighten, and look more comfortably connected in the here and now. Imagine what becomes possible when that buildable energy is cultivated through regular practice, filling and nourishing you consistently.

Qigong practice is often grouped into three main categories: Medical, Martial (such as Tai Chi), and Spiritual. Within these, there are countless lineages and styles, all supporting the health of the body, mind, and spirit in their own ways. I primarily teach Medical Qigong, which focuses on improving health and healing.  

To me, qigong is like pouring nourishing, cleansing, and calming fuel into an empty or chaotic emotional tank. What might feel easier to move through in your life if you had more life force to support you? 

Somatic coaching and Qigong can be incredibly healing and transformative, however they are not therapy and do not replace it. My work does not offer psychological assessment, mental health diagnosis, treatment planning, or prescription of any medication. I am also not able to accept insurance.

My work guides you discover the innate healing wisdom your body, energy, and spirit naturally holds. Through somatic and qigong practices, you’ll deepen your self-awareness, emotional regulation, resilience, and vibrant wholeness. Instead of working through the lens of a diagnosis or label, we will discover how that is showing up in your body and find improved tangible ways to help your body accomplish it's goals beyond talking or cognitive understanding alone. It can be a beautiful compliment to whatever healing approaches are currently working for you, or to add an embodied integration to what you may be exploring in talk therapy or other inner work. 

I currently may not be the best fit for you if:

• You are in the early phases of trauma recovery or experiencing unstable mental or physical symptoms that make daily functioning difficult.

• You are currently in or freshly out of an abusive relationship with yourself or others.  If you are actively struggling with self-harm, an unmanaged severe eating disorder, chaotic cycles of addiction, or problematic substance use, my offerings independently may not be what fits your needs best at this time.

• You are in an active crisis state or in significant distress and looking for a rescue or a magical quick fix that would bypass internal work.

• You do not have the space, time, resources, support, or stability needed to prioritize healing or growth right now. Your well-being and capacity comes first. 

If any of this resonates, I lovingly encourage you to seek support from a therapist, social worker, doctor, naturopath, psychotherapist, and/or clinical psychologist who can provide the level of care you deserve. I would not want our work together to delay or sidestep other care that would be of greater benefit to you first. 

That said, I’m here when you’re ready.

If you’re managing stable-enough symptoms, in the later stages of recovery, and have some stabilizing healing work under your belt, I can work alongside your therapist and/or doctor as part of your healing team.

If you’re not quite sure whether we are the right fit at this time, you’re welcome to book a free connection call and we can figure it out together.