somatic Sessions

Discover how your body has always been protecting, guiding, and supporting you though somatic work. When you shift from battling your body to partnering with it, profound healing and connection become possible.

Sessions are 75 minutes long, fully clothed, and offered online or in person with advanced request. We’ll begin by checking in, arriving together, and exploring any goals you may have for how you’d like to feel or what you’d like to work on.

What Somatic (SE™) Experiencing offers:

• A gentle, body-based approach to healing trauma, shame, stress, and relational wounding.

• The chance to release old trauma patterns and rewire the brain and body toward safety, balance, and resilience.

• Support for sensations stored in the body such as pain, numbness, tightness, dissociation, postural changes, or overwhelming emotions, even when the original event isn’t remembered.

• A safe space to explore the body’s protective wisdom, or trauma responses, with curiosity, compassion, and skilled care.

• The opportunity to uncover new pathways of safety, peace, pleasure, and homecoming beneath layers of suffering.

During our time together, you may:

• Follow your body’s impulses into different movements (such as pushing, tensing muscles, or defending your self) to naturally discharge unreleased protective energy.

• Track and notice sensations in the body like expansion, warmth, or tingling as the body's doorways to healing.

• Ground and orient with the five sense into present moment, and see what the body is holding in the here and now. 

• Explore and re-process difficult material and strong emotions in small, manageable doses so your system is not overwhelmed or re-traumatized.

• Practice pendulation, which is moving between discomfort and supportive comfort, to build nervous system flexibility and long term resilience.

• Experience trembling, yawning, sounding, shifts in breath, or waves of movement as your body releases trauma and integrates new healing pathways.

• Develop stronger awareness of your body and emotions, along with growing trust in your ability to return to a secure center of Self over time.
  
  

I’ve completed the Beginning and Intermediate Years of SE training with world-renowned Senior Legacy Teacher Dr. Abi Blakeslee, PhD, one of Dr. Levine’s earliest mentees.

Learn more about the three year Somatic Experiencing training here.

An Important Note: 

This work takes time and consistency to truly land in the body. The survival patterns that have kept you safe through pain and hardship did not appear overnight. They were often learned and reinforced over many years.

While a single or a few somatic sessions can be profoundly transformational for one-time events, such as processing a car accident, preparing for surgery, or moving through a panic attack, deeper and more complex patterns need space and time to be rewoven into something new.

Exploring, understanding, and gently untangling the deeper knots in the nervous system is a gradual process. Reweaving those old patterns into a new, secure, and dependable foundation of safety takes some time and care. 

An important reason why this work is so life changing is because trauma often teaches us to isolate and to feel like we have to do everything alone, even our healing. Yet healing in the presence of another, with skillful and compassionate support, offers the brain and body something profoundly corrective: new experiences of safety, trust, and connection. It reminds your system that you do not have to do it all alone anymore, and allows the animal of your body to heal in the way it was always wired to: through relating, connection, and co-regulation with others.