Somatic Therapy recognizes how our life experience gets stored in our tissues and provides practical tools for allowing stuck patterns to transform. This approach includes working with core emotions which can shift repetitive cycles.

Somatic Therapy (body-based) supports you in connecting with your present moment experience for wellbeing. It This age old full-person approach is booming in popularity as neuroscience verify's its efficacy. Sessions can include working with the breath, sensation, movement, interoception and the nervous system.

This approach is informed by: Hakomi, Somatic Experiencing, Polyvagal theory, Body-Mind Centering, Focusing, AEDP, neuroscience, trauma informed counseling, mindfulness approaches, and social justice counseling. I hold great appreciation for indigenous modalities that practiced this approach long before western psychology incorporated it.

My approach to somatic counseling also includes skills and exercises that are common in traditional talk therapy. Sessions include exploring thoughts, feelings, beliefs and behaviors, and engages with the clients level of embodiment to the degree that works for them.