Somatic Counseling + Trauma Resolution
What is Somatic Counseling?
Somatic Counseling sessions are designed to support you to gain deeper levels of body based and and nervous system awareness. Through a deeper awareness of our body and nervous system responses we are able to create new and healing experiences, break out of old patterns and stories and support our body and being to let go of past traumas.
These sessions are for exploring the areas of challenge in our lives and meeting them in ways that create growth. Most often clients come in seeking support around their personal relationships, attachment styles, sexuality, relationship to their body and how past experiences and trauma impact these areas of their lives.
While conventional therapy such as CBT, can help us gain a cognitive awareness of our past experiences, trauma and wounds, somatic work helps us to integrate this awareness into the body. We take a bottom up approach working with the connection between body-based sensations, emotions and how this shapes our experiences and beliefs.
Somatic sessions are a safe space to feel fully, learn to regulate your nervous system, and come into deeper awareness and empowerment in how you move through the world. Working through a trauma-informed, neuroscience-based, Polyvagal theory framework these sessions provide a playground for understanding our nervous systems, bodies, and ways of being regardless of whether or not we’ve experienced trauma.
(For an overview of what Polyvagal Theory is, check out THIS resource by my teacher Deb Dana)
Somatic Deep Dive Sessions are designed to create deep, integrated change and transformation by working with all levels of your being - body, nervous system, inner-child, heart and spirit! When we learn how to come into deeper connection with ourselves we are able to experience the connection we long for in all our relationships and out in the world.
Somatic Counseling Sessions Can Include:
Internal Family Systems (IFS)
Hakomi Therapy
Polyvagal Therapy & Trauma Healing Work
Hands-on Somatic Bodywork*
Sex & Intimacy Coaching
Embodiment Practices such as Dance, Yoga, Movement, Breathwork
Sound Healing
Exploring Expanded States through Shamanic Practices*
* are only offered in-person currently
I currently see clients virtually M-Th and in-person 2 times a month on Fridays in Mill Valley, CA
Recommended Pacing:
I recommend 6-8 sessions (1x a week) over the course of a month to 6-8 weeks and then checking in about a cadence that is right for you. This type of work flourishes in an on-going container and relationship, especially when working with a history of trauma. For folks who have not experience therapy before I recommend working with a therapist alongside this work. Bi-monthly (2x a month) containers are available on occasion.
Corporate Consulting, Coaching & Leadership Training
I work with mission driven companies & entrepreneurs to create revolutionary results, a new understanding of sustainability, cutting edge and company wide education & training, and an unbreakable sense of individual and collective connection to mission and purpose.
To learn more about my corporate offerings please contact me using the link below and include in your application a bit about who you are, why you're drawn to somatics, and the impact you're seeking to have on the world. I look forward to evolving with you!
Client Testimonials
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