How sessions work

Sessions directly include your body in connection with your mind. I help you develop somatic skills like grounding, engaging with your breath and movement awareness. You will learn to differentiate between what feels comfortable or tense and how this relates to your capacity to feel safe and connected with others. I help you make meaning out of what you feel inside as you emotionally integrate what was once too overwhelming to notice. Feeling states, including trauma, anxiety and depression, shift and change based on your present day capacities and resources rather than ways you were limited in the past.

A body-relational approach

Our work together happens within the safety of a compassionate therapeutic relationship; trust is primary to your healing and the body is an integral part of this process.

How your body gets involved

Your Proprioceptive and Interoceptive systems allow for awareness of how you feel yourself externally and internally. Increasing somatic awareness supports more possibility for sensing, thinking and feeling. 

Your Nervous system is designed for a balance between exertion and rest (sympathetic and parasympathetic systems). With anxiety, depression or trauma, these systems are out of balance and can be restored through both touch and movement. 

Your Endrocrine system regulates hormones which impact your emotions. Your endocrine system and nervous system work together. Touch and movement affects these systems, supporting a coordinated effort which supports how you process your emotions. 

Your Neuromuscular system affects tension patterns in the body. The touch and movement sessions help differentiate and then integrate new neuromuscular patterns.

Your Polyvagal system is a part of your nervous system which allows direct body-to-brain communication about emotional safety in relationships and allows you to bond with others.

I provide somatic and psychotherapy interventions as a Licensed MFT &  Registered Somatic Movement Therapist (ISMETA)