Has life felt relentless lately?

Counseling

Counseling with me starts with what’s alive for you in the moment. We’ll take a few minutes to ground, check in with your body, resource your nervous system, and settle into the space. From there, I take an active, collaborative role helping you notice patterns, make connections, attune to your body’s cues, understand your nervous system, disrupt cycles that no longer serve you, and gain practical tools you can actually use in your everyday life.

Unlike conventional talk therapy, I also work energetically and intuitively, using my own breath and embodied awareness to help regulate and bring attention to the pace, energy, and subtle qualities of what’s present. We’ll invite that same curiosity to your intuition, giving you space to name what you sense, what your body is communicating, or what your gut is telling you—strengthening self-trust, self-connection, and opening up more avenues of exploration.

Education is a huge pillar of my approach. Understanding what you’re experiencing, how your nervous system is working, and why, takes a lot of the mystery (and often the intensity) out of it, and changes your relationship with it. The more familiar you become with your specific patterns and responses, the easier it becomes to recognize what’s happening sooner, respond with intention, and trust your ability to work with your system.

Somatic Integration

You’ve probably heard the word somatic more times than you ever thought you would. So what does it mean here? Soma is the Greek word for body. In neuroscience, the soma is the cell body—an integration center receiving, evaluating, and responding to cues from its environment. Just as the soma is integral to a cell’s life, your body is integral to yours. Your experiences, environments, and responses shape how you adapt and move through life.

When we’re talking about responding to cues, at the most basic level, we’re talking about survival. Survival is, of course, kind of a big deal. Our bodies are remarkably good at adapting to what life requires of us, but they aren’t designed to remain in survival states for prolonged periods of time. Sometimes, though, circumstances require exactly that. We adapt to get through them, and those adaptations don’t always subside when circumstances change. They can continue to show up in the body, persisting beyond the conditions that brought them to life, turning what once helped us survive into something keeping us from fully living.

Somatic therapy gives us a way to notice and work with these patterns through the body. Words aren’t replaced; they’re integrated through the body. While somatic techniques can be incorporated into a traditional counseling session, Somatic Integration offers an immersive, body-led experience.

Sessions move slowly and at your pace, with no expectations. Once we’ve established a foundation for this work together, I’ll guide you into the experience, making sure you’re grounded and oriented to yourself and the room. From there, we might turn attention to the breath, move gently, stretch, settle into a guided meditation, or simply discover what it’s like to be you in your body. You might move in ways you haven’t before, vocalize, sigh, pause to process anything that surfaces, or relax into the mat and find stillness. Your body may have more to say than you realize. If any of that sounds a little cringe, I get it. The goal isn’t to make you cringe. That's not therapeutic. The goal is to allow your whole self to just be. And there’s no wrong way to be.

My background in movement is extensive. It began many years ago in a dance studio, expanded into competitive running, and now spans nearly two decades of practicing and teaching yoga, Pilates, barre, cycling, running, personal training, and other forms of movement. Combining that experience with my clinical and somatic training, nervous system research, and your inner knowing, we’ll make sure you have what you need to let your body safely participate in the conversation (even if what it needs is silence).

This work may be especially useful if something feels like it’s lingering, unfinished, or beyond words; if you’re wanting to reconnect or deepen your connection with your body; or if the description calls to you in any way. Trust yourself. You don’t need to be flexible, experienced with any type of movement, or even know what it is you’re looking for. This session meets you—and your body—exactly where you are.