A return to the body, a reorientation to safety.
What Is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is an approach to healing that works with the wisdom of the body, not just the thoughts of the mind.
It recognizes that our stories, stress patterns, traumas, and joys aren’t only held in our heads—they live in our tissues, breath, posture, and nervous system responses. Somatic therapy invites us to gently notice and unwind these embodied patterns so we can live with greater freedom and presence.
This isn’t talk therapy—though we may speak.
And it’s not massage—though touch may be involved.
It’s a space where sensation, movement, breath, and awareness become the pathways to healing.
Why the Body Matters in Therapy
Most of us have learned to live in our heads.
To cope by analyzing, fixing, or bypassing our discomfort.
But the nervous system doesn’t heal through logic.
It heals through felt experience, through moments when the body senses safety, choice, and connection again.
Somatic therapy supports that process by helping you:
- Feel grounded and present in your body
- Identify and shift survival responses (like freeze, fight, or flee)
- Increase your capacity to stay with emotion or sensation
- Reclaim parts of yourself that may have gone offline or numb
- Experience new patterns of ease, safety, and wholeness
What Happens in a Session?
Every session is different because every person’s system is different.
There’s no fixed protocol—only an attuned, moment-by-moment responsiveness.
A session may include:
- Verbal tracking of sensation, emotion, or movement impulses
- Gentle touch to support regulation or awareness
- Movement explorations to unwind tension or rediscover freedom
- Stillness to allow integration
- Support for boundaries, agency, and choice
We go at your pace.
Nothing is forced, and you’re always in charge of your experience.
Who Is This For?
Somatic therapy may be helpful for you if:
- You feel disconnected from your body or emotions
- You’ve tried talk therapy but feel something is missing
- You struggle with chronic stress, anxiety, or trauma responses
- You notice physical tension that doesn’t resolve with bodywork alone
- You’re curious about healing in a way that includes your whole self
You do not need to know how to “be in your body.”
That’s what we gently practice—together.
Why I Offer This Work
As a practitioner of Rolfing, Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, and polyvagal and trauma-informed care, I’ve seen how deeply the body holds our histories—and how powerfully it can guide our healing.
Somatic therapy weaves through all the work I offer.
It’s not a technique—it’s a way of listening, feeling, and being with what’s present.
And in that space, something new becomes possible.
Begin Gently
If you’re curious but unsure, that’s okay.
You don’t need to know how to explain what’s happening.
We begin by slowing down, making space, and meeting what arises—without judgment.
This is bodywork that meets the whole of you—with kindness and care.
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Or Contact Me with questions.