Whereas “traditional” therapy is talk-based, somatic therapy is body-based. It works from the belief that all of your lived experiences are held within your body and that by accessing and connecting with your body, its sensations and the felt senses, we can heal the storylines, patterns, and traumas. This is a practice of tuning into your sensations so you can understand the language of your body and receive the wisdom you need to heal.

Touch is involved for many reasons but the main one is that touch allows for a certain level of co-regulation to happen in session, which creates a deeper sense of safety. With that deeper sense of safety, we can access some of the harder things held within your body.

You are ALWAYS asked for consent before I bring touch to any part of your body.

I spent many months during the beginning of the pandemic creating a format that would translate to a virtual space. This work is just as impactful online. While there isn’t hands-on touch between the two of us, I offer you to bring touch to certain parts of your body, and I sometimes ask you to imagine me bringing touch to those parts, with consent, of course.

From my experience and research, Somatic Experiencing doesn’t involve much touch between practitioner and client. SE practitioners do invite you to bring your own touch, but touch is not the core of their practice. In my practice, you are on a massage table receiving touch on very specific parts of your body.

In 90 minute sessions, we spend a good amount of time discussing what came up in the session and how we can integrate the wisdom that came through from your body into some of your daily practices to be in service to your expanding connection to the sacred within you. I also integrate shadow work, archetypal work, and some earth-based practices into this part of the session.

In-person 90 minute sessions are sliding scale $120 - $150.

In-person and virtual 60 minute sessions are sliding scale $70 - $90.

Lower price options are available to those who need it. BIPOC 2SLGBTQ are prioritized. Just send me a message if those prices don’t work for you.

In these 2 hour sessions I guide you through a meditation, do some hands-on energy healing work, and channel wisdom from those in your support grid whose consent I've received. We bring this wisdom into your body, giving space for integration as this experience opens a door to the magic and medicine held within you. This is a beautiful experience but isn't necessarily the easiest, and so I require a consult before we embark on this journey together to ensure you have what you need to support you through. This is in-person only.

This format of Shadow Work was taught to me by my teacher, Myranda. The structure for this is centered around the four directions. We work with the directions to help inform us of the embodiment and form of our shadow and light selves. While I bring aspects of this work into my Somatic Therapy sessions, this specified path works over 6 months with us meeting weekly for those 6 months (1 month for each direction and 2 months for integration between and after each direction). The embodiment of the four directions and elements inform us on how we can actively see the patterns we participate in each day and choose to break those patterns and cycles. You will receive materials and tangible exercises to help you get to know yourself in this way. This work can be in-person or virtual and is hugely transformative.