Your Questions Answered

Somatic practices help you tune into your body's wisdom and nervous system responses and sensations.

Instead of just thinking your way through challenges, you learn to include your body's intelligence in navigating what life is showing you .

As you continue to practice this work with me an in your life, you’ll create more expansiveness and authentic responses to whatever comes your way.

As a coach I am trained differently than I would be if I were a licensed therapist.

Therapists do incredible work processing & resolving past experiences and diagnosing and treating mental health conditions.

Some conditions or syndromes that a therapist might diagnose are neuro-developmental challenges: ADHD, neurodiversity, eating or personality disorders (bipolar, borderline), obsessive compulsive or hoarding challenges, mood or anxiety struggles.

As a coach:

I am collaborating with you in real time about what’s happening in your body now. Together we’ll be mindful about how content, meaning, or story might be keeping your mind mired in cognitive patterns rather than helping you move through them.

I’ll teach you concepts and skills to listen to your nervous system.

Together we will notice what sensations are showing up in your body and where they live. We’ll pay attention to whether any type of sensation causes overwhelm (tightness, freeze or opening), and I’ll offer skills so you can navigate working with them and helping them resolve.

We also pay attention to emotion in a similar way. The idea is that when emotion can be experienced in more parts of the body through using chakra and elemental energy systems, we can bear the load of those emotions differently. This helps the body not shut down from fear, sadness, anger, or despair, but embody discomfort so it can digest and move through us, much like food moves through our gastro intestinal tract.

You and I are peers. I don’t know you better than you know yourself. I’ll offer perspectives based on my experience and education but it’s up to you to decide what we do or don’t do with those offerings. I’m here to support you, you get to decide how.

I don’t diagnose mental health conditions or syndromes.

I don’t treat mental health conditions, though I DO come along side a clinical therapist and offer additional support if that’s helpful.

Our coaching focuses on practical tools to address what's happening in your body right now that feels stuck.

I will help you notice behaviors and patterns that aren’t working for you and we’ll practice being curious about moving some of that energy through and how you feel when that happens.

We’ll be with those places gently, allowing resolution in the body to happen organically. From this resolution your body will naturally build capacity for whatever you’re facing in this moment, and it will organically assist you with whatever challenges arise in the future.

Some clients do therapy and coaching and find they complement each other beautifully. If this is something you’d like to pursue please let me know.

There are no minimum or maximum amount of sessions that you must sign up for. You can come once or keep the door open to come as many times as is helpful.

This work is empirical & evidenced based, but it doesn’t resonate with every person. You get to decide when to start, stop, or redirect.

I'm trained as both a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) and Integral Somatic Psychology (ISP) practitioner. I also bring 20+ years of lived experience navigating disconnection, mistakes, and finding my way back to myself. I have decades in the creative industry understanding the vulnerability of putting your art into the world.

You can try a 30 minute consult at no charge to assess fit, and we’ll evaluate along the way if different or additional kind of support could be helpful.

Each session is tailored to what's alive for you that day. We might work with a place of activation in your nerous system if you’re struggling. We’ll also tend to where there’s support her in this moment so your nervous system can register safety, and ease.

We’ll notice if there’s any numbness here and be in relationship with the nuances of that place.

We’ll keep being interested in what your body is showing us. Increasing your tools for awareness, sensation tracking, movement that helps stuck energy find completion, and integration practices for your daily life.

Not at all. This work supports anyone wanting to live with more ease, confidence, and authentic expression. We all have stress responses that could benefit from completion and integration, whether from major events or daily life pressures.

Trauma robs us of our certainty our security, our agency. The beautiful reality is we can work with these deficits and their resulting impacts and create more space in our bodies. This is where true resilience lives.

Group Containers are intimate, ongoing experiences (6-12 sessions) with carefully selected participants for deep transformation work. Community Workshops are single-session events open to everyone, focused on skill-building and community connection with no long-term commitment.

This varies greatly from person to person. Some clients find significant relief in just a few sessions, while others work with me regularly for ongoing support. We'll check in regularly about what feels right for you, and there's no minimum commitment required.

You can direct the frequency and number of sessions to meet.

Stage fright is your nervous system trying to protect you from perceived danger that can result from judgement.

We'll help you and your body discover in the time that it needs, that sharing your authentic self can be safe, enjoyable and even exciting!

Transforming fear into excitement and authentic expression takes a gentle and slow approach. We’ll take exactly the time needed to take the next step forward in being seen. Small steps can mean great progress and the work invites an ongoing process and not and end final result.

That's completely normal and exactly where we start. Many people live disconnected from body sensations, me included! It took learning how to be curious and kind to begin to see and appreciate the absolute magic that my body is displaying moment by moment.

Part of this work is gently learning to notice and interpret your body's signals without pressure or judgment.

Some signs this might be a good fit:
1. You feel heard and not judged.
When you share you notice noone is trying to fix you.

You can sense over the course of several sessions there is empathy, trust and mutual respect growing. You have an increased sense of being able to show up exactly as you are in sessions without feeling external pressure to conform.

2. You leave with something useful at the end of a visit. Maybe you’ve learned something about yourself, perhaps you’ve got a new tool to try on that you’ve already explored a little in the session. Maybe it’s a reframe to a challenge that’s been sticky. You can feel forward motion happening in your life.

3. Your sessions include a gentle nudge to provide honest reactions. Your feedback is so important to me so I can adjust my approach based what you actually need.

4. You’re not just sitting in your comfort zone during sessions. The invitation to grow is not forced or manipulative but an invitation to stretch. The only ways we can grow is to sit with a little bit of discomfort that doesn’t feel pushy. If you leave feeling curious that’s a good sign!

5. Meeting times & days fit your life with ease. All the details matter when it comes to developing a relationship with the person trained to support you. Is scheduling straightforward? Are the time frames and days available conducive to your professional and personal life?

6. You’re slowly more and more real. This is a big one. Can you be more and more authentic in this relationship? If you find you’re able to share parts of you that aren’t easy to share, that is a good indicator there is more trust developing.

7. The reason you wanted to try this approach is starting to bear fruit. You might not have known what your goals were when you started, but perhaps they are more clear now, and or you’re aware of some other goals coming into view. You can see progress and it’s exciting!

If the relationship feels flat, strained or stuck, it’s not anyone’s fault. Sometimes it points to the fact this isn’t a good fit. Fit is personal and you get to change your mind!