Offerings
Online Somatic Experiencing Sessions: 1 hour sessions that can be scheduled weekly, bi-weekly or as needed. Online via Zoom.
In-person Somatic Experiencing sessions: 1 hour sessions that can be scheduled weekly, bi-weekly or as needed in the Hudson Valley, NY
Somatic Experiencing Intensive: Customize your own intensive in Hudson Valley NY. Example: 5-day intensive including 1 SE session daily and 1 afternoon session (yoga/dance/nature immersion) integrating the SE work.
Approach
I am a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner and trauma healing professional. Helping people transform suffering by learning to listen to, trust, and uncover the wisdom and healing that resides within their own bodies and beings is one of my greatest joys.
My approach is collaborative, and I aim to bring attuned support to each client on their unique healing journey. I offer an intentionally slow and gentle body-oriented approach with a depathologizing lens that supports clients to develop inner listening skills, compassionate understanding and trauma resolution. This body-based approach empowers people to honor and be led by their own inner experience rather than rely on an external authority. Learning to experience life from the inside out can lead to self-trust, heal our relationship with ourselves, and enable us to interact with the world in new, connective and authentic ways.
My work is deeply rooted in my own personal healing journey and over 20 years exploring the mind-body-spirit realm as both a student and a practitioner. I integrate a variety of somatic therapy modalities including:
Somatic Experiencing: My main approach is a body-centered therapeutic approach to healing from traumatic or overwhelming life situations and chronic stress
Inner Relationship Focusing: Somatic parts work
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM): A somatically based model for addressing attachment, relational and developmental trauma / C-PTSD
Process-Oriented Facilitation: An ‘unshaming’ approach influenced by Processwork and Jungian psychology
My specialties include nervous system regulation, PTSD/ C-PTSD (developmental trauma), working with women, sexual trauma, parts work, chronic health issues, systemic trauma, spirituality, boundaries and anger/ healthy aggression.
It is my mission to offer quality services to all, regardless of age, race, ethnicity, religious affiliation, gender identification, sexual orientation, or economic status.
About Somatic Experiencing®
“…Human beings are born with the innate capacity, the inborn capacity to overcome trauma. I believe that trauma is not only curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening, a portal, a door, an opening to emotional and real spiritual transformation.”
– Peter Levine
What is Somatic Experiencing®
Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-centered therapeutic approach to healing from traumatic or overwhelming life situations and chronic stress. While traditional therapy tends to focus on story, thoughts and working with the brain to heal trauma (top down), Somatic Experiencing® believes that the body has an equally important role in healing trauma and chronic stress. This slow and gentle approach supports the body as it renegotiates the effects of trauma and stress which have become trapped within the physiology, bringing the nervous system back into healthy rhythms so that innate qualities such as self-trust, congruence, vitality, creativity, ease and aliveness are restored.
What does a session look like?
In Somatic Experiencing® we slow things down and focus on the “felt sense” (the body’s present-moment experience) to access the body’s memory of the trauma (rather than the mental story). We work in a gentle, titrated way, at the pace of your individual nervous system, to minimize the likelihood of re-traumatization. By taking an inward journey and gradually reconnecting with bodily sensations, feelings and making meaning of our experiences we can complete thwarted responses and release intense survival energies that have been keeping our nervous system in a state of hyperarousal (stress) or hypoarousal (collapse, freeze).
Read more about the Somatic Experiencing® approach here.
What can Somatic Experiencing® Address:
Symptoms resulting from trauma may look like:
· Anxiety
· Depression
· Addiction
· Numbness
· Chronic health issues
· Sleep disorders
· Relational difficulties
· A host of complex symptoms that do not often appear to make sense to the rational mind
Somatic Experiencing® can:
· Reset the nervous system
· Restore inner balance
· Enhance resilience to stress
· Increase vitality, equanimity and capacity to actively engage in life
Online Somatic Experiencing® Sessions
Some people wonder if you can get the same benefits online as in person. While the two experiences are different, online sessions are absolutely effective. So much so, that in the past 4 years when I’ve seen my own SEP, I’ve chosen to do so online, so that I can find the right fit for me that’s not only based on geography.
About Process-Oriented Facilitation
Stemming from Arnie Mindell’s Process Work, Process-Oriented Facilitation is a non-shaming approach to creating more meaning, aliveness and sense of wholeness in our lives. It uses body/soma, movement/ dance, voice, dreamwork, role-play, shamanic interventions, and earth-based work to awaken and touch into our depths, and to reach into the heart of our struggles and suffering. Process-Oriented Facilitation is a beautiful approach to gain access into our deepest experiences, feelings, stories and meaning.
“Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things.””
– Thich Nhat Hanh