Somatic Therapy & Coaching
holistic, transformational, and soulful support for grief, trauma healing, and psychedelic integration.
serving people virtually worldwide
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Unprocessed grief can leave you feeling stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected from your own life, and cut off from joy.
Grief can feel lonely, like you are carrying it all alone.
But grief is not meant to be carried alone; it's meant to be carried together, in sacred witness. In this work together, we create a supportive space to feel, move, and express your grief, so it can become a pathway back to connection, aliveness, and even joy.
Types of grief I work with
Loss of a loved one
Relationship ending
Loss of identity (health, illness, big life transitions)
Climate grief / social injustice grief
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Trauma can leave you disconnected from yourself, unable to fully enjoy life and relationships, and held back from your truest expression.
This work is for people who have already done some healing or talk therapy around their trauma and are ready to go deeper, with both the body and the soul.
Types of trauma I work with
Complex trauma / developmental trauma
Intergenerational/ancestral trauma (the trauma we carry that is not just ours)
Traumatic events
Sexual violence
Trauma is what happens when we experience too much of something too fast for our systems to process, or too little of something over a prolonged period of time with no support. There are many things that cause trauma within the body, and many ways people experience trauma.
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The insights from psychedelic or expanded state experiences can be profound.
They can reveal deep subconscious material that may need more time to integrate.
Without proper integration support, these states can sometimes leave you feeling ungrounded or undone - somatic integration helps to deepen the healing and strengthen the insights.
Somatic therapy can help with the integration of what was uncovered during the expanded state, and help you ground the insights you gained into your daily life.
Types of expanded states
plant medicine journeys
psychedelic experiences
meditation retreats
embodiment retreats
ABOUT THE WORK
The ultimate goal is to support you in strengthening your embodied wholeness, and to provide you with the tools and support to access more self-expression, joy, and connection (with self, life, and others).
This happens through an integration of both verbal and somatic processing. Whatever you are processing, we will explore how it is also showing up in your body and soul, and work with body sensations, nervous system states, and clues from the subconscious to support your healing process.
My approach to somatic healing is holistic in nature, knowing that healing happens within the integration of body, mind, and spirit/soul.
My main modality is somatic parts work, which is an IFS-informed somatic healing method. I also weave in elements of Buddhist psychology, depth psychology (working with the subconscious through images, dreams, symbols, and oracle practices), nervous system healing, and energy psychology.
For in person sessions, I integrate somatic bodywork / stillness touch into the sessions which seems to really help with both grief and trauma healing, to have attuned and safe touch that allows your system to repattern, move stuck energy, and orient towards your innate healing potential.
Some other things we might address would be lifestyle habits such as movement practices, food, herbs, and ritual practices.
Scope of Practice While this work can be deeply therapeutic, I do not practice as a licensed psychotherapist, and I do not diagnose or treat mental health conditions or acute mental health crises.
LEARN MORE
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this a therapeutic approach that is influenced by IFS (internal family systems). The model sees a person as comprised of different parts - all unique to that person, and at the center, a core Self. Somatic parts work is a way of approaching healing that works with the many parts of ourselves - our internal family system - bringing them into balance and alignment. Somatic parts work works directly with the body and the nervous system.
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This draws from centuries of contemplative wisdom about the mind — how our thoughts and reactions form, how suffering works, and how presence and compassion can change our relationship to difficult experiences. In our work, this shows up as mindfulness, self-compassion, and a way of meeting your inner experience with more spaciousness and less struggle.
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Depth psychology is the practice of listening to the parts of you that live beneath the surface — your dreams, your symbols, the patterns that keep showing up in your life, the deeper "why" beneath what you're going through. It treats your inner world as meaningful rather than random, using imagination, imagery, and story as doorways into insight that logic alone can't reach. This can look like exploring a recurring dream together, working with a symbol or image that keeps appearing for you, or — for those who are curious — drawing on tools like astrology or tarot as additional lenses for soul-level reflection and self-inquiry.
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EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) is an energy psychology technique that has been shown to be effective in the same way as EMDR. Its a practice of integrating challenging emotions and experiences, and creating the possibility of new belief systems. Its done through a practice of tapping on acupressure points and talking through an experience.
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Polyvagal theory is the science of your nervous system. how it moves between feeling safe and connected, anxious and on edge, or shut down and numb, often without you consciously choosing it. Understanding your own nervous system helps explain a lot of what can feel confusing or frustrating about your reactions. Somatic practices informed by Polyvagal theory provide tools to help you find your way back to a felt sense of safety and calm.
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*In person sessions only - online sessions I will teach you your own self-touch techniques
Supportive hands on work that has a background in biodynamic craniosacral, somatic bodywork, and energy healing. This is a gentle, non-medical approach that helps to orient the body to safety, wholeness, and peace, while encouraging any stuck energy to move.
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hourly rate
$120 / hour
£90 / hour
€105/ hourI offer 60, 75, 90, and 120 minutes sessions.
I work with people for both long term and short term focused work.
Sessions can be weekly, biweekly, monthly, or even as you need them.
There are a couple of discounted sessions available for those in financial distress with marginalized identities (queer, trans, BIPOC). Often these slots are full. Please reach out to see if there are any openings for these sessions.
