Somatic Healing
Individual Sessions
Individual Sessions
Do you feel stuck or overwhelmed?
Do you live with persistent anxiety or depression and want peace of mind?
Would you like to cultivate compassion towards yourself?
If so, I invite you to explore Somatic Healing.
Do you live with persistent anxiety or depression and want peace of mind?
Would you like to cultivate compassion towards yourself?
If so, I invite you to explore Somatic Healing.
Somatic Healing sessions are opportunities for personal growth, healing and insight. They combine deep listening with somatic approaches, including sensing, breath and movement. We may also explore writing, drawing or energy healing practices.
The two main modalities that I draw from are Somatic Experiencing, a science-based trauma resolution and stress management approach, and Internal Family Systems, a therapeutic approach that empowers people with tools for self-healing. These approaches are synergistic, gentle and powerful.
While sessions vary from person to person, many experience healing emotional wounding and resolving traumatic experiences. Others report moving away from unhealthy thoughts and to empowering life narratives. My intention is to guide you in a process self-discovery so you can hear your own truth.
As we work together, I teach you simple and effective practices for emotional wellbeing and nervous system regulation so you can learn how to manage stress and cultivate greater joy.
Benefits of Somatic Healing:
* Resolve trauma.
* Heal past wounds and reclaim your power.
* Inhabit your body to feel grounded and free.
* Learn tools for self-healing and emotional regulation.
* Discover practices for shifting out of states of anxiety, depression and overwhelm.
* Grow in self-compassion.
Free Chat:
I offer a free 20-minute conversation for anybody interested in working together. This is a time for me to hear about your goals for healing and I can tell you more about my work. We can see if it's a fit to work together.
Also, take a look at the FAQS below for more info.
Pricing:
Zoom (online) Sessions:
60-Minute Session: $95
75-Minute Session: $115
90-Minute Session: $135
In-person Sessions in Western Massachusetts. Please inquire.
Contact info: [email protected]
The two main modalities that I draw from are Somatic Experiencing, a science-based trauma resolution and stress management approach, and Internal Family Systems, a therapeutic approach that empowers people with tools for self-healing. These approaches are synergistic, gentle and powerful.
While sessions vary from person to person, many experience healing emotional wounding and resolving traumatic experiences. Others report moving away from unhealthy thoughts and to empowering life narratives. My intention is to guide you in a process self-discovery so you can hear your own truth.
As we work together, I teach you simple and effective practices for emotional wellbeing and nervous system regulation so you can learn how to manage stress and cultivate greater joy.
Benefits of Somatic Healing:
* Resolve trauma.
* Heal past wounds and reclaim your power.
* Inhabit your body to feel grounded and free.
* Learn tools for self-healing and emotional regulation.
* Discover practices for shifting out of states of anxiety, depression and overwhelm.
* Grow in self-compassion.
Free Chat:
I offer a free 20-minute conversation for anybody interested in working together. This is a time for me to hear about your goals for healing and I can tell you more about my work. We can see if it's a fit to work together.
Also, take a look at the FAQS below for more info.
Pricing:
Zoom (online) Sessions:
60-Minute Session: $95
75-Minute Session: $115
90-Minute Session: $135
In-person Sessions in Western Massachusetts. Please inquire.
Contact info: [email protected]
FAQs about Somatic Healing:
What's it like to work with me?
I bring warmth, curiosity and sense of play to sessions. It is my goal to orient you towards what is supportive, especially as we address challenging material. I offer you unwavering compassion, gleaned from my own journey living with health challenges and help you to nurture your own capacity for self-love.
Is this work for me?
You will thrive in this work if you are committed to growth and ready for change. You have a desire to know yourself. You wish to be met on the level of body, mind and spirit, and you feel a hunger for more meaning in your life.
It is important to know that this work takes courage. As is the nature of any healing process, we must greet the painful parts of ourselves and this is not always easy. The benefits of greater joy, peacefulness and resilience are worth it.
I help people with:
* Fear.
* Anxiety.
* Sadness and grief.
* Depression.
* Loneliness.
* Moving from confusion to clarity.
* Trusting yourself.
* Navigating life changes.
* Igniting creativity and play.
* Cultivating self-compassion.
How do Somatic Healing sessions compare to other therapeutic forms?
Talk therapy is the most familiar way of getting support for life's emotional challenges. Somatic healing has some similarities, but many important differences. Both are great options, it just depends on what you are looking for.
Sessions are similar to talk therapy in that I make a space for your feelings, hopes and desires. I help you to feel understood and highlight your strengthens. It has some similarities to Dance Movement Therapy, because I offer the option to use expressive movement to help to process life experiences.
But sessions are different from mental health counseling in that I don't diagnose or treat mental illness. I don't offer analysis of your experiences or give you theories for understanding family or relationship dynamics.
My work stands alone as a healing modality, but it can also be used as an adjunct for people who are currently in talk therapy. For some people, engaging with the body in a therapeutic process helps them to process feelings and experiences that they cannot process by talking alone.
How is the touch (which is always optional) different from the type of touch used in massage?
The touch used in massage is designed for relaxation, relieving muscle tension and/or recovery for injury or illness. Most often it is done without clothes and with the use of oils. The touch offered in my work is different in many ways. The touch is always offered with clothes on and uses no oils. I offer touch from a seated position, standing or table work, depending on what is needed. While relaxation happens, the clients stays engaged with what is happening. The goals of the touch are to deepen the therapeutic work of resolving trauma, healing emotional wounding, and providing a space for self-discovery.
The types of touch I offer:
- Presencing: Calm, gentle and grounded touch on one area of the body that is held for a minute or more, most often on the feet, the head, the upper back or the lower back. This brings awareness & attention to the area helping the client to re-inhabit their bodies. Presencing can help to unearth latent emotions and restore a sense of wellness, called "resourcing" in Somatic Experiencing. As we bring in presence, I also include the use of breathing to facilitate any release that is needed.
- Nervous system regulation: Touch to help the body shift out of a survival/stress state to a state of greater ease. I offer compression, which is a gentle pressing or squeezing, as well as rocking motions.
- Comfort, soothing & support: This touch is helpful when the client is feeling overwhelmed or is moving through a challenging emotion such as grief. This touch includes light brushing, hugs, sitting back to back or holding a client's hand.
-Connection & boundaries: Touch can be used as a way to explore and restore healthy connection and boundaries. We work with physical touch and energetic touch. Explorations include standing at different distances, hands pressed against hands and standing back to back. We may explore pushing, leaning into and leaning away from each other. All of this is done slowly and with consent.
Can you tell me more about the practices that you use?
I draw from three primary practices: somatic (body-based), energy wellness and deep listening. I describe them in more detail below.
Somatic (body-based practices):
Living in a body is not easy. We tend to dissociate from our physical form, and when this happens we become anxious and disconnected from others. Like a tree being dug up by its roots, we feel ungrounded. In our work together, I help you bring awareness back into your entire body. We move gently and slowly, using breath awareness, sensing, movement and touch (when in-person) to re-inhabit yourself. Using these tools, stored pain and trauma can be released. This process takes strength and patience, but it has many rewards. You become more relaxed and resilient. You are able to access your own wisdom and intuition. You can find your grounding once again.
Energy Wellness:
If you don't have a daily energy wellness practice, you are missing out on an essential part of self-care. Even just five minutes a day can be a game changer. It certainly was for me! We are energetic beings, and our energetic anatomy needs nourishment just as our physical anatomy does. Drawing from ancient and modern energy wellness techniques, I teach you energy wellness exercises, many of which can be done lying down. These practices strengthen, soothe and energize both your physical and your energetic bodies.
Deep Listening:
We all long to be heard. The gift of deep listening is so healing. Our experiences are validated, and it provides us with insight and perspective. In our process together, I offer you reflective listening. You learn to welcome even your most difficult feelings—including fear, grief, loneliness and shame—so that you can discover their deeper messages. And most importantly, you learn how to listen to your own voice by staying connected to your own inner witness.
Can you describe what sessions are like?
We begin each session with grounding practices to help you to start the work from a centered place. Then we get to check-in and see what thoughts and feelings are present. Using a mind-map, we chart these and then focus in on one or two. We get to know these thoughts and feelings through the lens of Internal Family Systems also called Parts Work, which allows us to have a relationship to them and learn from them.
As we explore, we will weave in breath, movement, self-supportive touch and sensing as needed. I also may incorporate writing, drawing or energy healing practices. At times, we will clear out deeper levels of trauma and emotional wounding, and for this, having a caring presence is essential. I usher in your tears, tease out your stories and help to draw out the strength and joy welling up within you.
We end each session with time for reflection and integration.
.
Talk therapy is the most familiar way of getting support for life's emotional challenges. Somatic healing has some similarities, but many important differences. Both are great options, it just depends on what you are looking for.
Sessions are similar to talk therapy in that I make a space for your feelings, hopes and desires. I help you to feel understood and highlight your strengthens. It has some similarities to Dance Movement Therapy, because I offer the option to use expressive movement to help to process life experiences.
But sessions are different from mental health counseling in that I don't diagnose or treat mental illness. I don't offer analysis of your experiences or give you theories for understanding family or relationship dynamics.
My work stands alone as a healing modality, but it can also be used as an adjunct for people who are currently in talk therapy. For some people, engaging with the body in a therapeutic process helps them to process feelings and experiences that they cannot process by talking alone.
How is the touch (which is always optional) different from the type of touch used in massage?
The touch used in massage is designed for relaxation, relieving muscle tension and/or recovery for injury or illness. Most often it is done without clothes and with the use of oils. The touch offered in my work is different in many ways. The touch is always offered with clothes on and uses no oils. I offer touch from a seated position, standing or table work, depending on what is needed. While relaxation happens, the clients stays engaged with what is happening. The goals of the touch are to deepen the therapeutic work of resolving trauma, healing emotional wounding, and providing a space for self-discovery.
The types of touch I offer:
- Presencing: Calm, gentle and grounded touch on one area of the body that is held for a minute or more, most often on the feet, the head, the upper back or the lower back. This brings awareness & attention to the area helping the client to re-inhabit their bodies. Presencing can help to unearth latent emotions and restore a sense of wellness, called "resourcing" in Somatic Experiencing. As we bring in presence, I also include the use of breathing to facilitate any release that is needed.
- Nervous system regulation: Touch to help the body shift out of a survival/stress state to a state of greater ease. I offer compression, which is a gentle pressing or squeezing, as well as rocking motions.
- Comfort, soothing & support: This touch is helpful when the client is feeling overwhelmed or is moving through a challenging emotion such as grief. This touch includes light brushing, hugs, sitting back to back or holding a client's hand.
-Connection & boundaries: Touch can be used as a way to explore and restore healthy connection and boundaries. We work with physical touch and energetic touch. Explorations include standing at different distances, hands pressed against hands and standing back to back. We may explore pushing, leaning into and leaning away from each other. All of this is done slowly and with consent.
Can you tell me more about the practices that you use?
I draw from three primary practices: somatic (body-based), energy wellness and deep listening. I describe them in more detail below.
Somatic (body-based practices):
Living in a body is not easy. We tend to dissociate from our physical form, and when this happens we become anxious and disconnected from others. Like a tree being dug up by its roots, we feel ungrounded. In our work together, I help you bring awareness back into your entire body. We move gently and slowly, using breath awareness, sensing, movement and touch (when in-person) to re-inhabit yourself. Using these tools, stored pain and trauma can be released. This process takes strength and patience, but it has many rewards. You become more relaxed and resilient. You are able to access your own wisdom and intuition. You can find your grounding once again.
Energy Wellness:
If you don't have a daily energy wellness practice, you are missing out on an essential part of self-care. Even just five minutes a day can be a game changer. It certainly was for me! We are energetic beings, and our energetic anatomy needs nourishment just as our physical anatomy does. Drawing from ancient and modern energy wellness techniques, I teach you energy wellness exercises, many of which can be done lying down. These practices strengthen, soothe and energize both your physical and your energetic bodies.
Deep Listening:
We all long to be heard. The gift of deep listening is so healing. Our experiences are validated, and it provides us with insight and perspective. In our process together, I offer you reflective listening. You learn to welcome even your most difficult feelings—including fear, grief, loneliness and shame—so that you can discover their deeper messages. And most importantly, you learn how to listen to your own voice by staying connected to your own inner witness.
Can you describe what sessions are like?
We begin each session with grounding practices to help you to start the work from a centered place. Then we get to check-in and see what thoughts and feelings are present. Using a mind-map, we chart these and then focus in on one or two. We get to know these thoughts and feelings through the lens of Internal Family Systems also called Parts Work, which allows us to have a relationship to them and learn from them.
As we explore, we will weave in breath, movement, self-supportive touch and sensing as needed. I also may incorporate writing, drawing or energy healing practices. At times, we will clear out deeper levels of trauma and emotional wounding, and for this, having a caring presence is essential. I usher in your tears, tease out your stories and help to draw out the strength and joy welling up within you.
We end each session with time for reflection and integration.
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