Somatic Therapy: Coming home to the body
Body-based practices layered into depth, energy, grief, and trauma work
Somatic work isn't a technique in my practice. It's a thread woven through everything.
In a culture that trains us to abandon ourselves, override intuition, and live in survival mode, reclaiming the body is its own kind of revolution. For many of us, especially those who've survived by numbing, leaving the body, or living in chronic activation, that reclamation takes time and it can't be rushed.
How I Work Somatically
I don't drop into the body immediately, especially with trauma survivors, neurodivergent people, and sensitive systems. That can be destabilizing. We build the capacity for presence first, slowly and without pressure.Somatic work shows up differently depending on what we're doing together. In grief work, we notice how loss sits in the chest, the gut, the throat. In parts work, we feel where a protector lives in the body or where a younger part holds tension. In energy work, we track what's lodged, stuck, or leaking. In trauma work, we follow the nervous system and work within what your system can actually tolerate at any given moment.I meet your system where it is. Some days that means going into sensation. Some days that means staying with breath and stillness. Some people need to spend a long time in the mind before the body becomes available. That's a legitimate place to work from.
Somatic Work for Neurodivergent and Highly Sensitive Systems
For neurodivergent people, there's often a disconnect between body and mind that has nothing to do with something being wrong. The system is overwhelmed. Sometimes looping thoughts are actually emotions, the body's alarm bells trying to get your attention through the only channel that felt safe. Sometimes staying in the mind is its own form of grounding because the body isn't available yet.Over time, we work toward the body becoming a place you can actually inhabit.
Who This Work Supports
✓ Trauma survivors who've left their bodies to survive ✓ People with chronic dissociation or feeling outside themselves ✓ Highly sensitive and neurodivergent people navigating sensory overwhelm ✓ Those healing from sexual trauma or body-based violations ✓ Anyone who's been told to "just relax" or "get out of your head" ✓ People with chronic pain, autoimmune issues, or unexplained physical symptoms ✓ Those who intellectualize everything because the body doesn't feel safe yetRelated Work You May Resonate With: Complex Trauma, C-PTSD & Inner Child Healing · Energy Medicine · Therapy for Highly Sensitive People · Therapy for Neurodivergent & Highly Sensitive People · Grief Tending · Transpersonal Parts Work
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