Somatic Therapy with individuals

During sessions, I may ask you to give impressions of sensations you notice in your body, images coming to your mind as well as movements and impulses to be noticed or experienced, we may explore body postures, facial expressions, and making sensory contact with the environment outside and inside your body. Sensation in a sense is the language of the body. Words, thoughts, meanings, stories and images are the language of the mind. Once we learn how to follow the sensations in our bodies, we use this awareness to guide our bodies move through the survival stage and return to the state of ease and new possibilities.

It can be challenging at first for people to access or bring words to their body’s experience. That is completely natural and noticing this is part of the healing process. We work slowly, at the speed of the nervous system with what is available in order to build capacity to experience more over time. Throughout this, we learn tools that support regulation and settling and draw from the natural alignment and resource your nervous system already holds. It is necessary that this work moves at the speed of true relationship, meaning that the unfolding of this work will come as you feel a sense of trust for me, your own body and this process.