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Somatic practices help you tune into your body's wisdom and nervous system responses. Instead of just thinking your way through challenges, you learn to include your body's intelligence in navigating life's complexities, creating more ease and authentic responses to whatever comes your way.

Therapists do incredible work processing past experiences and diagnosing mental health conditions. Somatic coaching focuses on practical tools to address what's happening in your body right now that feels stuck helping you build capacity for this moment, and future challenges. Some clients do both and find they complement each other beautifully.

Sometimes events happen when we are little that cause fear. Maybe a caregiver didn’t or couldn’t notice, or may not have had the emotional room to help our little selves understand a confusing experience. This work teaches tools to help move the fear from a place of immobility to flow again.

Capacity fills when we are intentionally nurturing, attend to discomfort and from this place begin to notice what other support is available in this very moment.

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 artistic challenges.

Each session is tailored to what's alive for you that day. We might work with breathing patterns and nervous system regulation, body awareness and sensation tracking, movement that helps stuck energy find completion, or 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.

Absolutely. Stage fright is your nervous system trying to protect you from perceived danger. We'll help it learn that sharing your gifts can actually be safe and joyful, transforming fear into excitement and authentic expression.

That's completely normal and exactly where we start. Many people live disconnected from body sensations. Part of this work is gently learning to notice and interpret your body's signals without pressure or judgment.

80% of your nervous system carries signals from your body to your brain. Only 20% goes from your brain to body.

In other words, your body is sending 4 times more info to your body right now than what goes to your brain. The more connected you can be with your complicated messy self, the more softening, expanding, safety & worth can be here.

Trauma resolution practices create gentle pathways back to greater ease and wholeness.

If you're tired of just coping and ready to build genuine capacity, if you want practical tools for life's challenges, or if you're curious about what your body might have to teach you, this work could be a good fit. Community Workshops are a great way to try this work out at a reduced rate.