Somatic healing is rooted in the understanding that the body—not just the conscious, thinking mind—holds memory, emotion, and lived experience. Unresolved trauma or emotional overwhelm can remain in the nervous system as implicit/unconscious memory until processed, quietly shaping how we feel, respond, and relate in daily life, often without our awareness.

Emotions are physiological. Sensations like butterflies in the stomach, tears when sad, or heat in the face when angry are natural bodily processes that occur below the level of intellect alone.

But when experiences are too overwhelming or life interrupts the natural process, the nervous system can become “stuck” in survival states like fight-flight-freeze. Somatic healing supports the body in reharmonizing by completing what was once interrupted, allowing for release, resolve, and return to presence.

This work engages the unconscious through interoception (inner sensation) and proprioception (movement and position). Neuroscience shows that much of human experience is shaped outside conscious awareness, and that lasting change happens when these deeper layers are included. By using the body as the vehicle for awareness and integration—not simply as movement or exercise—somatic healing reaches what words alone often cannot.

Sessions meet you where you are. We’ll begin the work with a clear sense of direction informed by your goals, history, and nervous system patterns, while staying closely attuned to real-time feedback from your system.

We combine nervous system regulation, somatic sensing, subconscious work, and guided inner awareness to unwind protective patterns, reconnect to felt emotional experience, and restore a coherent sense of self.

Sessions may include attuned dialogue, body tracking, sensory exploration, micro-movement, imagery, implicit parts work, titration of experience and memory, developmental integration, and attention to relational dynamics—always paced to support integration rather than overwhelm. Through gentle precision, the system moves out of survival and into the conditions where neuroplastic change becomes possible.

This work is not about dramatic release or catharsis, which is often temporary. It’s about subtle, lasting nervous system change that builds capacity, ease, flexibility, and embodiment.

Put simply: we listen, we feel, we complete, we integrate, and repeat.

Somatic work is often reduced to techniques, exercises, or the pursuit of dramatic emotional release, while nervous system work is reduced to quick fixes and hacks — all of which are temporary fixes.

Neuroscience shows that bottom-up processes—creating conditions of safety, trust, and sensory/interoceptive awareness—are foundational for nervous system change. When these conditions are present, unfinished emotional and survival responses can complete and bracing can soften naturally. Otherwise, tools may offer temporary relief but do not reliably reorganize underlying patterns.

My somatic trauma work therefore prioritizes bottom-up nervous system reorganization first, rather than trying to fix or overcorrect. Sessions are subtle, relational, and carefully paced, guided by sensation, micro-movement, co-regulation, corrective experiences, and moment-to-moment nervous system cues rather than overriding effort or temporary catharsis.

Top-down and developmental work then supports integration. Drawing on neuroplasticity, psychosynthesis, and my SEEED framework—Sense, Equalize, Express, Embody, Distribute—these bottom-up shifts are consolidated into identity, choice, boundaries, and thus embodied in daily life.

My contemplative roots allow me to work at depth with unconscious material while my nervous system specific training means I prioritize precision, care, and safety.

My work is grounded in cultivating the capacity for compassionate presence and awareness, and follows a somatic, developmental, and holistic model rather than a diagnostic or medical one. I am not a licensed therapist, and this work does not involve diagnosis or mental health treatment.

Traditional therapy often emphasizes top-down approaches, such as cognitive understanding and behavior change. Somatic work is “bottom-up,” engaging sensation, emotion, and the autonomic nervous system, where many patterns form outside conscious awareness. While we do talk throughout our work, especially at a developmental level, dialogue is used to access what lies beneath habitual narratives and support authenticity, rather than to manage symptoms or override responses.

My somatic trauma training supports gentle, precise work with unprocessed emotion and nervous system patterns. A contemplative foundation allows attunement to unconscious material, while psychosynthesis and developmental work support integration, so shifts become embodied, meaningful, and lived over time.

Sessions are responsive and individualized, and your needs may evolve as the work unfolds. I will always communicate with transparency and care 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 the system to return to regulation, connection, compassion, and choice. This restores the capacity to be intimately present with oneself, others, and life.

Not everyone has necessarily experienced explicit trauma, yet similar protective patterns can form through unresolved memories, repressed emotion, developmental adaptation, relational imprinting, and the natural shaping of identity over time. These patterns shape how the nervous system relates to safety and belonging, often outside our conscious awareness.

For this reason, my work does not separate trauma resolution from developmental integration. Survival responses, attachment patterns, and sense of self co-develop, and healing involves restoring nervous system safety while also integrating how identity and perception formed around our lived experience. As 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.