Somatic healing works with how experience lives in the body through the nervous system, not just the thinking mind. When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the system organizes around protection rather than presence.

Through bottom-up, felt experience, the nervous system can complete what was interrupted and reorganize from the inside out, restoring safety, coherence, and choice.

Somatic work is often reduced to techniques, exercises, or dramatic emotional release, while nervous system work is framed as quick fixes or hacks. That’s not how lasting change happens.

My work prioritizes bottom-up nervous system reorganization by first creating the conditions of safety, trust, and felt awareness that allow unfinished survival and emotional responses to complete naturally. Without this foundation, tools may offer relief but rarely reorganize underlying patterns.

I integrate developmental and top-down work, particularly as capacity builds, to support consolidation and meaning. Drawing on neuroplasticity, psychosynthesis, growth-focused coaching, and my SEEED framework (Sense, Equalize, Express, Embody, Distribute), changes become integrated into identity, boundaries, choice, and daily life.

My contemplative roots support depth with unconscious material, while my nervous system training prioritizes precision, safety, and care.

I am not a licensed therapist and work from a different model. My approach is somatic, developmental, relational, and contemplative, and does not involve diagnosis or medical treatment.

Many traditional therapy models emphasize top-down change through insight, analysis, or behavioral correction. My work begins bottom-up, engaging sensation, emotion, and the autonomic nervous system to restore felt safety.

I reframe top-down work as developmental. As nervous system capacity builds, I integrate psychosynthesis-informed and developmental work to support meaning-making, identity integration, and conscious choice, so changes are lived.

My somatic trauma training supports gentle, precise work with implicit patterns. Developmental work supports integration and growth of the self. A contemplative foundation holds the understanding that healing and transformation are deeply relational and spiritual processes of becoming.

Sessions are responsive and individualized, evolving as your system needs and grows: for some clients emphasizing somatic trauma resolution, and for others more developmental integration and coaching/growth.

I will always communicate transparently if this approach is not the right fit.

Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive survival response.

When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the nervous system organizes around protection rather than presence. Healing trauma means restoring safety so unfinished responses can complete, allowing regulation, connection, and choice to return.

Not everyone has experienced explicit trauma. Similar protective patterns can also form through unresolved emotion, developmental adaptation, relational imprinting, and the shaping of identity over time, often outside conscious awareness.

For this reason, my work does not separate trauma resolution from developmental integration. As nervous system safety is restored and unfinished responses complete, presence, agency, and authentic expression emerge naturally.

Psychosynthesis is a spiritually grounded depth psychology that views us as whole beings made of many soul parts, each with its own voice, need, or history. It predates Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) by several decades, but takes a more integrative approach: rather than endlessly fragmenting into parts, the aim is more deeply to synthesize them in service of the deeper Self. What makes psychosynthesis unique is that it weaves together both shadow work—meeting the messy, wounded aspects of our past—with transpersonal integration, inspiration, and future-oriented goals. This balance allows for true healing and transformation, because we’re not just processing pain, but also aligning with meaning, higher ideals, and the authentic wholeness at the core of who we are. Even as modern therapy seeks to adopt this work of synthesizing the psyche’s parts (“parts work”) it’s not possible without transpersonal integration.

Everything. True healing is a natural, human process rooted in spiritual wisdom and philosophy, long before therapy or treatment protocols existed. It’s not about fixing; it’s about remembering who you are beneath the layers of survival and defense.

Trauma, including unprocessed emotions, disrupts our life force and severs us from our authentic self. At its core, trauma is often a loss of meaning, a spiritual crisis. Healing restores that meaning through compassionate presence and alignment with the will of your heart.

Importantly, spirituality is not a means of escapism, future fixing, dogma, nor compulsivity. Spirituality, to me, is you connecting to your heart’s will. That’s the way.