Somatic Therapy

You have done the talking. You have explored your patterns. You understand your story. And yet the anxiety, the shutdown, the sense of being stuck persists in your body. That is not a failure of insight, it is a signal that your body holds what words cannot reach.

Your body is trying to tell you something.

While traditional talk therapy addresses how you think and feel about your experiences, Somatic Therapy adds another dimension: how your body holds, organizes, and expresses those experiences through posture, gesture, breath, muscle tension, and movement.

Many people are familiar with Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing, which incorporate the body and the nervous system in talk therapy.  My specialized training, in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy developed by Dr. Pat Ogden, goes a step further to include the body, nervous system, attachment styles and relational patterns. This holistic and comprehensive approach is especially helpful for the treatment of complex trauma.

I help people heal at the level where complex trauma actually lives: in the body.

 This integrative approach is especially effective for people who

  • Have done talk therapy and still feel stuck

  • Experience anxiety, hypervigilance, depression, or shutdown

  • Feel disconnected from themselves, their emotions, or their body

  • Struggle with relationships, often rooted in early attachment experiences

Here is what this might looks like in a session . . . I may ask you to notice what happens in your body when you describe a difficult moment. Perhaps your shoulders tighten, your breath shortens, or you feel an urge to pull away. Rather than moving past that moment, we slow down. We become curious. We discover what your body is trying to do in the moment of overwhelm, what it was prevented from doing, and how those actions (or inactions) have contributed to your relationship patterns ever since.

Together we work to reduce overwhelm, increase emotional stability, and foster lasting changes that feel integrated — not forced.

Somatic therapy is collaborative, respectful, and paced to your comfort level.

Rather than asking you to relive the past, Somatic Therapy emphasizes staying in the here and now.

There is a voice that doesn’t use words. Listen.

— Rumi

Details about my Somatic Training

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I: Affect Dysregulation, Survival Defenses, and Traumatic Memory

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy is a body-oriented approach to trauma treatment that integrates neuroscience, attachment theory, and somatic awareness. This training focuses on understanding how traumatic experiences are held not only through thoughts and emotions, but also through the body’s protective responses.

Through this work, I have developed skills in supporting clients with affect dysregulation, trauma-related survival responses, and the lasting impact of traumatic memories. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy provides a compassionate framework for helping clients build awareness of bodily sensations, increase emotional regulation, and gently process experiences that may feel overwhelming or difficult to access through traditional talk therapy alone.

Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level II: Emotional Processing, Meaning Making, and Attachment Repair

This advanced training deepens the therapeutic approach by exploring how early relational experiences shape patterns of connection, self-perception, and emotional responses. It studies the intersection of trauma and attachment by working with the ways developmental wounds, emotional processing, and meaning-making all intertwine.

Using a trauma-informed, body-centered framework, I support clients in developing greater self-understanding, integrating unresolved emotional experiences, and cultivating more secure and fulfilling relationships. This approach honors the wisdom of the body while helping clients create new experiences of safety, choice, and connection.