Somatic Therapy (Body Centered)

Emotions, experiences, and trauma are stored in our body. Our body gives us many signals, but we are so often living listening to the constant guidance of our brain that we sometimes miss these signals. Somatic based therapy aims to help you connect with your body to better process stuck emotions and experiences, and release them for more healing, ease, and peace in your life. Somatic tools utilize mindfulness based strategies and movement to engage in the healing process.

Somatic therapies focus on the connection between mind and body to heal trauma and emotional pain. By increasing body awareness, clients learn to release tension and stored trauma, leading to emotional healing and greater well-being. These therapies include techniques like breathwork, movement, and mindfulness to regulate the nervous system. Ideal for those with trauma, chronic pain, or anxiety, somatic therapies provide holistic, body-centered healing.

Traumatic experiences and big feelings like depression and anxiety are often stored in the body and show up as physical sensations that we either numb or ignore. Somatic therapy helps us identify, learn and heal from those feelings stored in the body.

My approaches based on my perspective that the deep wisdom of our body can support you through many of your challenges. By harnessing your movement, sensations, and breath, you can learn to access the parts of yourself that exist beneath your consciousness. In doing so, you will be able to re-experience yourself in ways beyond your old stories—and, help you learn, grow, and heal.

I invite you to take a moment now, to check in with your body. You don't need to change a thing physically, just allow your attention to shift inward as you continue to look at your phone or computer screen. What do you notice? By acknowledging and accessing our body's intelligence, therapy is much more effective and deeper than psychoanalysis alone. In our work, we will gently explore what it's like for you to be in your body, guiding you towards increased feelings of safety comfort and ease.

Somatic therapy is a practice that helps us to become more aware of our bodies and awake in our lives. It is a non-linear, creative, and relational process by which we come to discover and heal ourselves. Somatic therapy teaches us how to listen deeply to ourselves and increase our awareness of the more subtle parts of our body that may go unnoticed in our daily lives.

Somatic therapy is a form of body-centered therapy that looks at the connection of mind and body and uses both traditional talk therapy and physical therapies for holistic healing. In addition to talk therapy, I use mind-body exercises and other physical techniques to help release the pent-up tension and trauma that negatively affects a person’s physical and emotional wellbeing.

Addressing the mind-body connection. Working from the "bottom up" as well as the "top down". Giving you tools to use your awareness of your body to support nervous system regulation and relating with others.

Somatic Experiencing® is a somatic psychotherapy that helps reestablish the body’s natural ability to heal from trauma by restoring the nervous system’s ability to self-regulate, rather than respond with chaos or numbness to external or internal reminders of troubling experiences. I have completed the full three-year training program and earned my SEP certificate.

Somatic therapy offers a powerful, body-centered approach to help clients manage and reduce anxiety. By focusing on the mind-body connection, somatic therapy helps clients become more aware of physical sensations linked to their emotional experiences. This awareness allows clients to understand how their body holds onto stress and anxiety, empowering them to find ways to discharge it. Over time, clients develop the skills to self-regulate, fostering resilience and calmness.

Somatic Therapy emphasizes the mind-body connection and focuses on recognizing- and healing from trauma imprints in the body. The goal is to release and resolve traumatic experience while restoring a sense of safety within the body. Somatic techniques are rooted in Polyvagal Theory and focus on cultivating a healthy nervous system. Restoring a healthy nervous system creates an internal sense of wellbeing, emotional stability, connection, aliveness, competence, and an ability to self-regulate.

I could have spent my whole life talking about trauma instead of moving it through. As a student who stumbled into the field, I was its biggest critic. I wanted evidence that felt senses mattered. In my most profound relationships now as client or healer, we don't talk a lot & the evidence is right there in the ability to process & release pain without analysis paralysis. I lead folx to learn from their own body how stress shapes the way they walk the world & they let it lead them toward freedom

My approach is based on my perspective that the deep wisdom of your own body can help resolve many of your challenges. By harnessing your movement, sensations, and breath, you can learn to access parts of yourself that exist beneath your consciousness. In doing so, you will be able to re-experience yourself in ways beyond your old stories—and, help you learn, grow, and heal.

I have been a massage therapist for 30 years and found my way to Pyschotherapy as a result of the many emotional experiences that the body released during CranioSacral and working with newborns and their parents. I found that the implicit memories that keep people stuck can be accessed with or without the story being shared to be released and healed in the body and the mind.

Somatic therapy, or body-oriented therapy, taps into the wisdom of the body as a gateway for healing. By focusing on physical sensations, posture, breath, and movement, somatic therapy helps clients connect with and release stored emotions and trauma that are often held in the body. This approach empowers clients to build a deeper awareness of the mind-body connection, fostering a sense of presence and grounding that supports emotional resilience.

Prior to my career as a counselor, I practiced as a Licensed Massage Therapist in the state of Florida for 7 years. Since beginning my career in counseling I have received training and supervision in a range of somatic-based therapies and have consistently brought awareness of the body into my work with clients.

I attended Naropa University and received a degree in Somatic Psychology. In my own journey of healing, I found myself unable to progress without accessing the body and all that was stored within. Communicating with the body, as well as attunement to trauma and the nervous system, is the foundation of my therapeutic approach. In my years of practice as a therapist, I have been brought back time and again to the innate wisdom every human body holds.

The body is a source of information that, when we learn to listen, can often suggest a clearer path. Body psychotherapy enrolls the body directly in therapy, whether it’s through authentic movement or Somatic Experiencing, or more subtly through opening to the intuition of the nervous system, mind-body work, of becoming aware of the unique signals your body developed to communicate with you. Working with the body is the most direct means of healing trauma because it's where trauma is processed.