Somatics
The body and mind are intricately interconnected and interwoven (it's more like a bodymind!) and the body holds information and wisdom not readily accessible in our conscious awareness. This is why you can't think yourself out of trauma, or why some feelings/problems persist after years of talk therapy.
By bringing the body into our awareness with intention and care, we can access embedded patterning and create shifts. A huge part of the work I do is simply teaching people to listen to their bodies and create space for what they find- whether it be pleasure, energetic stuck-ness or an emotion that needs holding or release.
I am trained in Somatic Sex Education, a modality that supports people in cultivating somatic skills and accessing embodiment. I empower people to connect with their bodies, desires, sensations and voice to access greater pleasure and fulfillment.
By bringing the body into our awareness with intention and care, we can access embedded patterning and create shifts. A huge part of the work I do is simply teaching people to listen to their bodies and create space for what they find- whether it be pleasure, energetic stuck-ness or an emotion that needs holding or release.
I am trained in Somatic Sex Education, a modality that supports people in cultivating somatic skills and accessing embodiment. I empower people to connect with their bodies, desires, sensations and voice to access greater pleasure and fulfillment.
Polyvagal Theory
Polyvagal Theory provides a scientific framework for understanding our nervous systems. It teaches useful tools for how we can regulate our emotions and experience connection and safety. Do you find yourself anxious, activated and stressed? Shut down, immobilized and collapsed? These are all states regulated by your Autonomic Nervous System. I help people start to recognize these states in bodies, and learn skills for bringing themselves back to calm and connection. I also provide gentle bodywork and touch in my sessions, if desired, to support nervous system regulation and create safety.
Attachment Work
Our early relationships have a profound impact on our ability to form meaningful, secure and intimate connections as adults. Your early experiences of relationships might be showing up in your struggles with intimacy and sexuality in current time. I carefully tend to early childhood and attachment wounding and provide space for bringing repair to early attachment needs. When the younger you that didn't get what they needed is tended to, the healthy adult you can show up more fully. I have trained in NeuroAffective Touch, an approach related to Somatic Experiencing that supports healing from relational and developmental trauma and neglect.
I do not diagnose and treat mental health disorders or medical conditions of any kind. Instead, I work within a client-centered, positive, relational model that celebrates your strengths and uniqueness and creates space for healing, growth and expansion.
