Therapy…

Although change comes from within, humans aren’t meant to go it alone. Our nervous systems are hard-wired for connection and real connection with a caring other can make all the difference, in terms of healing, self-discovery, and personal transformation.

Somatic therapy can be useful for processing held emotions in a supported environment and for deepening connection with our own inner truth and knowing.

In somatic therapy sessions, I gently steer clients toward greater awareness of their own inner landscape. Through myriad somatic practices, like focused breathing, body-centered meditations and mindful movement, I guide clients into a deeper state of presence and then point them toward their feeling experience, which sometimes relates to emotional energies held within the body. Together, we begin to (1) notice and allow for physical sensations, emotions (as body experience), imagery and words, movements that want to be expressed, etc. (2) welcome and befriend these experiences, (3) offer support from a place of neutral curiosity, care, and compassion, and (4) make room for expression, however that looks. Emotions and other held energies may be processed and expressed through movement, creative arts, journaling, talking, crying, singing, raising the voice, and/or none of this at all. It is all welcome.