Discover Your Body's Wisdom:
Somatic Therapy for Personal Growth
Build confidence, leadership, and emotional resilience by connecting with your body
What is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a powerful process that cuts through the noise of your mind and connects you directly with your body's wisdom. It's not about analyzing your past or constructing elaborate stories about why you are the way you are. Instead, it's about tuning into what's happening right now, in this moment, in your body.Here's what makes somatic therapy different:• Present-Focused: We drop the stories and skip the psychoanalysis. Your attention is directed to what you're feeling right now.
• Body-Based: Your body is the gateway to your subconscious. By listening to it, you tap into deep wells of intuition and authenticity.
• Builds Capacity: Like strength training for your emotions, this practice expands your ability to sit with and process intense feelings.
• Transformative: As you develop your somatic awareness, you'll find yourself navigating life with more ease, confidence, and resilience.Through Somatic Self-Inquiry, you'll learn to:1. Recognize and interpret your body's signals
2. Expand your capacity for emotional sensation
3. Access your intuition and authentic desires
4. Break free from unconscious patterns of tension and bracing
5. Cultivate a deeper sense of aliveness and presenceThis approach isn't about figuring out why you can't get what you want. It's about developing the capacity to fully experience life, including the sensations that come with achieving your goals and desires. If you don't have capacity for the big feelings of success, responsibility, vulnerable love and loss, then you will subconsciously prevent yourself from achieving those things.By practicing Somatic Self-Inquiry, you're not just working on yourself – you're enhancing your ability to connect deeply with others and engage more fully with the world around you. It's a journey of self-discovery that ripples out, positively impacting every aspect of your life.Let's embark on this journey together.
Key Areas of Focus
In our somatic therapy work together, we'll explore several interconnected areas that contribute to your overall well-being and personal growth. Here are the key aspects we'll focus on:
Building Emotional Capacity and Resilience
At the core of our work is developing your ability to experience and process emotions fully. By expanding your emotional capacity, you'll become more resilient in the face of life's challenges, able to navigate difficult situations with greater ease and confidence.
Mind-Body Connection
We'll deepen your understanding of the intricate relationship between your mind and body. By learning to listen to your body's signals and sensations, you'll gain valuable insights into your emotional state and subconscious patterns.
Stress Reduction and Relaxation
Through somatic practices, you'll discover effective techniques for managing stress and cultivating a sense of inner calm. These skills will help you maintain balance and composure, even in high-pressure situations.
Emotional Regulation
You'll learn to recognize and regulate your emotions more effectively. This enhanced awareness will allow you to respond to triggers thoughtfully rather than react impulsively, leading to improved relationships and overall well-being.
Leadership and Communication Skills
As you become more grounded in your body and emotions, you'll naturally enhance your presence and ability to connect with others. This embodied awareness translates into more effective leadership and clearer, more authentic communication.
Self-Awareness and Personal Growth
Somatic Self-Inquiry serves as a powerful tool for deepening your self-understanding. By exploring your internal landscape through bodily sensations, you'll uncover insights that fuel personal growth and transformation.Through our work in these key areas, you'll develop a stronger relationship with yourself, enhance your interactions with others, and cultivate a more fulfilling, embodied way of living.
Apply to work with me
Please submit my Getting To Know You application form to be considered. Once accepted, you'll gain access to my booking calendar to schedule a session. You will have the option of 45-minute ($150) or 60-minute ($180) sessions.
One-On-One Sessions (virtual)
I offer two distinct approaches to support your personal growth and well-being: Somatic Therapy and Somatic Coaching. Both utilize the power of body awareness and Somatic Self-Inquiry, but they serve different needs and goals.
Somatic Therapy
Somatic Therapy is ideal if you're seeking: • A non-linear, exploratory process
• A safe space to process emotions and experiences
• Support in developing inner safety and grounding
• Help in navigating complex feelings or life transitionsIn Somatic Therapy sessions, I provide a firm and loving container for you to explore your inner world. Like a solid rock for your stormy ocean to crash into, I offer a grounded presence that allows you to find safety within yourself and learn to access it whenever necessary.If this sounds like what you're looking for you can skip to the bottom of the page and apply to work with me.
Somatic Coaching
Somatic Coaching is ideal for those with specific goals or those feeling stuck in their personal or professional lives. It's particularly effective if you: • Have clear objectives but struggle to achieve them
• Feel there's something holding you back from what you want
• Seek to enhance your emotional intelligence and self-awareness
• Want to align your actions with your authentic desiresWhen you come to me for coaching, we'll explore two key aspects:1. Clarifying your true desires: Sometimes, what we think we want isn't what we actually want. Or, part of us might be resisting our goals. Through Somatic Self-Inquiry, we'll uncover your authentic desires and any internal conflicts.2. Building capacity: Often, we struggle to achieve our goals because our nervous system isn't prepared for the sensations and emotions that come with success.We'll work on expanding your capacity to fully experience and metabolize these sensations.
My approach is rooted in your body's wisdom. By listening to and being present with your body, you'll build a stronger, more collaborative relationship with yourself. This process not only expands your capacity for sensation – and therefore your capacity for aliveness – but also provides a direct window into your subconscious.
Whether you choose Somatic Therapy or Somatic Coaching, our work together will strengthen your relationship with yourself and others, fostering a more embodied and fulfilling way of living.Through this work, you'll experience: • Powerful breakthroughs and radical embodiment
• A deeper connection with your intuition and authentic self
• Enhanced ability to navigate challenges and achieve your goals
• Greater alignment with your gifts and purposeSomatic work can be your pathway to becoming a more grounded, confident, and fulfilled version of yourself. It's about strengthening your relationship with your body, expanding your emotional capacity, and ultimately living a more vibrant, authentic life.Join me on this path.
Apply to work with me
If you would like to work with me, please click below to begin the application process. Please put some time and thought into answering the application questions. I am selective about who I work with. Your answers will help me understand whether we might be a good fit or not.If I decide to work with you, I will send you an invite to schedule a session on my calendar. You'll be able to choose between a 45 minute ($150) or 60 minute ($180) session. My payment system is integrated with my scheduling app, so you will pay the fee prior to the session.For my one-on-one clients I do not require any commitments or contracts, or sell any coaching "packages." We work together as long as it continues to make sense for both of us, one session at a time.If you're in a relationship and you're interested in a coaching package, please check out my couples coaching page, which has a separate application form and different terms.Cheers!
Relationship Coaching for Couples (virtual)
No shame, no blame.
No victims, no villains.
No cop-outs, no drop outs.
The purpose is growth, the benefit is love.
I create my life.These 5 tenets are the recipe for a thriving relationship and a life well lived. If you and your partner choose to work with me, you will learn their meaning, and you will learn to embody this radical approach to living and loving.I am a certified UPLVL CommunicationTM coach. UPLVL is a paradigm shifting language & communication framework that will change the way you see yourself and relate to all the people in your life.You'll learn how to feel, express, and discharge your resentments and unfelt emotions to your partner in a way that actually builds connection and intimacy, rather than eroding it.You'll learn how to identify your triggers, and process them in a way that allows you to shift your patterns and therefore change your life.The UPLVL framework was created by Kenya K Stevens and her husband Carl (aka Rakim). If you want to learn more, check out their book here. Kenya is a world renowned relationship master, and she specializes in polyamory and "divorce-proofing marriages."
(Note: Even though I am not polyamorous, the UPLVL system has been invaluable to the health of my relationship with my partner, and it is equally applicable to monogamous couples.)UPLVL plays a central role in my couples coaching offering, but it is bolstered by several other disciplines, practices, ideological and therapeutic frameworks – including Authentic Relating, and Betty Martin's Wheel of Consent – all of which are underpinned by my somatic (body-based) approach.I offer a 6-month couples coaching package that starts with a process I call somatic self-inquiry, then moves into the UPLVL system, and ends with incorporating your new communication and container-setting skills into your intimate life, giving you the opportunity to revitalize/reinvent your sex life. If you still want more guidance after the initial 6 months, you will have the option to renew for another 3-6 months with me.The initial 6-month package costs $7,200.
This includes a total of twenty 90 minute zoom calls, as well as limited in-between support via Telegram or WhatsApp. Most of our calls will be all together, the three of us, but often I will devote at least one private session with each of you.Please click below to fill out the application form. After reviewing your application, if I think we would be a good fit, I'll reach out to schedule a free discovery call. I do not sell, upsell, or convert people on my discovery calls. There won't be any urgency or scarcity marketing tactics to "seal the deal." The call allows us to get to know each other and decide whether we all feel good about moving forward and working together. After the call you'll have all the time you want to make your decision.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing (SE) changed my life. SE is a therapeutic modality which asks us to feel our body's sensations.EMOTIONS = SENSATIONSMost of us recognize that our most intense emotions are associated with physical sensations in our body. Think of the sinking feeling in your gut when you experience grief and loss, or when you realize you've made a huge mistake. Think of the heat you feel in your cheeks, or behind your ears, when you experience rage. Or the butterflies in your stomach when you are nervous/excited.But what about the more subtle emotions? What does it feel like when you recall a pleasant memory from childhood? How does it feel when your spouse is upset with you and you become defensive? How would you describe the sensation of defensiveness? Where do you feel it in your body?When we develop our ability to feel these emotional sensations (it takes consistent practice), it becomes a window into our subconscious, because our body literally is our subconscious. The sensations we experience tell us how our body is relating to the world around us, and how it responds to our own internal thought patterns and beliefs. This has helped me shift so many unconscious patterns of tension and bracing in my everyday interactions, which has brought me more ease, energy, and joy.The SE modality is the foundation of my coaching practice, and I am currently completing the 3-year Practitioner certification offered by the Somatic Experiencing Institute, founded by Peter Levine.