Healing Through Body Awareness

Somatic therapy is a gentle, mind-body approach to healing the lasting effects of trauma, reducing chronic stress, and helping you reconnect with yourself.

Sometimes you understand what happened to you. You've thought about it, talked about it, and perhaps even made peace with parts of it.

Yet your body still seems to be carrying something.

You may find yourself becoming anxious or overwhelmed more easily. You might shut down, overreact, people-please, stay constantly busy, or feel disconnected from yourself without fully understanding why.

These patterns aren't simply happening in your thoughts. Your nervous system has learned ways of protecting you—and sometimes those protective patterns continue long after they're needed.

Midlife can be a time when women begin noticing this more clearly.

Old patterns, unresolved experiences, difficult relationships, and ways of coping that worked for years may suddenly feel harder to carry.

Rather than treating this as something "wrong" with you, somatic therapy offers an opportunity to become curious about what your nervous system has been trying to communicate.

The word somatic comes from the Greek word soma, meaning "the living body."

Somatic therapy recognizes that healing isn't only something we think about. It's something we experience.

Instead of focusing only on the story of what happened, we gently pay attention to what is happening right now—in your body, emotions, and nervous system.

That might include noticing sensations, breath, movement, impulses, tension, ease, or subtle shifts that you may not normally notice.

We work slowly and collaboratively, allowing your nervous system time to process what it has been carrying without forcing you to relive or repeatedly retell painful experiences.

You don't need to be "good at" noticing your body to do somatic therapy.

I'll help you become curious about the signals your nervous system is already giving you and gradually develop a different relationship with them.

Together, we may notice sensations, emotions, movement, breath, protective responses, and moments when your body begins to experience greater ease or possibility.

Over time, this work may support:

• Greater calm and emotional regulation
• Less anxiety and chronic stress
• A stronger connection with yourself and others
• More flexibility in how you respond to difficult situations
• Greater confidence and resilience
• More freedom, creativity, and possibility
• A deeper sense of feeling like yourself again

Healing isn't about forcing yourself to change.

It's about creating the conditions that allow your brain, body, and nervous system to discover that something different is possible now.

Every person is different, so our work is tailored to your history, 

nervous system, needs, and goals.

Depending on what would be supportive for you, I may integrate somatic therapy with:

• EMDR therapy
• Attachment-informed therapy
• Parts work
• Self-compassion practices
• Mindfulness
• Creative and holistic approaches

These aren't separate techniques that you need to choose between. 

I draw from them thoughtfully as we discover what helps you feel more connected, more resourced, and less constrained by old patterns.

My role isn't to tell your body what it should do.

It's to help you slow down, listen, and become curious about the wisdom and resilience already present within you.

It's a question many people have: If we're working with the body, don't we need to be in the same room?

We don't.

There are actually some unique advantages to doing somatic work from your own environment.

Learn Why Virtual Somatic Therapy Works →