We don’t work with the mind alone. We invite the mind to listen to the body.

We work with the whole SOMA, the living body, the whole system: sensations, emotions, fascia, posture, nervous system responses, conditioned patterns, subconscious imagery and beliefs, relational stances, movements, non-movements, and all the parts of you that are still waiting to be seen, heard, felt, and met.

By combining therapeutic body-led (somatic) practices with traditional cognitive coaching and dialogue, we engage the soma, the nervous system, and the subconscious shadow layers where lasting change and embodied transformation actually happens – not jsut quick fixes.

This work is grounded in the newest breakthroughs of the neurobiology of stress and trauma, while also honoring ancient, indigenous, and embodied wisdom traditions.

Much of what we struggle with isn’t a personal failure.

It’s the result of a nervous system shaped by too much, too soon, too much for too long, or not enough for too long. 

Shaped by a world with all its social “norms” and unrealistic expectations. Shaped by our ancestors, the culture we live in, the systems, institutions and politics. ANd let’s face it not all bodies and identities are treated justly and access to resources is not divided equally. This creates ongoing trauma and stress.

This work is deeply informed by Polyvagal Theory, which helps us understand how our sense of safety or threat shapes our inner physiology, emotions, behaviors, narratives, relationships, and capacity to feel connected and truly alive, truly ourselves.

Rather than trying to “regulate” or control the nervous system, we learn to befriend it. To come into relationship with it.

To listen to physiological states and learn how each one feels.

Not to just settle and feel calm 24/7, but to build capacity to be in this dance of life. To have a flexible system that can  rest, feel pleasure, feel belonging and connection, safe enough to express and follow inner impulses, to digest emotions and residual stress, and to HAVE choice.

This is especially important for women and femme bodies, whose nervous systems are often shaped by relational, cultural, and systemic pressures around safety, visibility, desire, and belonging. 

Our brains and nervous systems shape-shift literally 4 times a month so knowing your rhythms and moving with them is often life changing.

This work is experiential and body-led. Together, we gently increase your capacity to feel, sense, and express what’s true for you—at a pace your nervous system can trust.

It can feel uncomfortable at times. Real change usually is at the edges. You may meet grief, anger, fear, or long-held tension as protective layers begin to soften and old holding patterns unwind.

And—you’ll also meet pleasure, relief, clarity, and aliveness.

As your system builds more internal safety, your window of capacity expands. Things that once felt overwhelming become workable. You’re able to feel more without shutting down or pushing through. You can handle the hard moments and let the good ones land.

Some people feel moved to make clear, tangible transformation. Others notice something quieter but just as powerful: moving through life with more ease, steadiness, self-trust, and a deeper sense of being at home in themselves.

Not fixed.

Not bypassing.

More whole. More you.

Humans are not one unified voice inside.

We are made of many parts, each shaped by lived experience.( this can be on a spectrum)

Some parts might’ve learned to be small, pleasing, quiet, hyper-responsible, numb, or vigilant to stay safe and connected.

Other parts might hold grief, sacred rage, sensuality, desire, power, shame, creativity, or wild aliveness and were pushed into the shadows because it wasn’t safe enough to express.

In somatic parts work, we don’t try to eliminate or fix these parts.

We let them know we see, hear, feel, and understand  them.

Protective parts are not the enemy.They are intelligent adaptations that once kept you safe, loved, seen.

The more vulnerable parts are not a nuisance, they are the portal to tender wounds in need of nurture and care.

Somatic healing and resolution  happens when all parts are met with care, curiosity, and compassion in the present moment, without needing to relive or analyze the past.

Integration is the process of allowing all of you to coexist.

Pain and pleasure. Fear and desire. Tenderness and strength.

This is how wholeness returns. This is how you step into Self-leadership, because you my dear are so much more than all these parts, you are a soul having a human experience on this floating rock!

Sessions are responsive, relational, and attuned. There is no one-size-fits-all method.

Depending on what your system needs in the moment, our work may draw from:

• calling in resources to give the body whatever it needs to feel safe enough in the moment

• building capacity to be with both comfort AND discomfort. Stillness and Intensity. Rest and Activation- without overwhelm.

• empowered voice and choice-based experiential and feel good movement

• befriending the nervous system and cultivating flexibility to flow between connection, protection, and disconnection without getting stuck.

• somatic parts and shadow work ( shape-shifting, integration and the return to wholeness and  Self leadership)

• felt-sense awareness (learning to speak the language of the body through sensations, emotions, pressure, temperature and subconscious imagery)

• completing residual emotions, stress, and interrupted impulses
• reconnecting to your inner divine spark, to meaning, to purpose, nature, the universe, heart, God or anything that feels like it can hold all of YOU
• refraining anxiety, pain, tension, fatigues, stress, postural patterns, habitual behaviours, or other embodied symptoms from a problem to fix into messages from your body and learning how to speak it’s secret language.

• authentic movement, polyvagal-informed somatic practices, and somatic stress release

• creative expression through voice, writing, imagery, or movement

• relational presence and sattachment-based work to give yourself what you needed back then in the present

• traditional cognitive coaching dialogue

• gently shedding patterns, tension, expectations and conditioning  that is no longer necessary or was never yours to carry 
• guided embodied visualisations using the power of somatic imagination
• dreaming into the future and moving towards the aligned life you desire and deserve.

We move slowly.

We follow sensation.

We prioritize safety, agency, and consent.

Your body already knows how to heal.

Transformation doesn’t come from forcing change or fixing yourself.

It unfolds naturally when the body feels safe enough to soften, express, complete, and rest.

This work is about coming home to your body.

Reclaiming trust in yourself.

And remembering who you are beneath the adaptations.

I don’t follow one rigid modality because human beings are not rigid systems.

My practice is integrative, nuanced, and continuously shaped by science, soma, spirituality, and lived experience.

You are not broken.

You are intelligent, adaptive, and deeply alive.

And your body is the way back.

My approach to somatic coaching is integrative by nature.

I don’t work from a single rigid method, because your nervous system doesn’t live in silos.

Depending on what your body needs in the moment, our work may draw from:

• Somatic Parts Work (IFS) & Somatic Attachment Healing

• Applied Polyvagal Theory & Nervous System Science

• Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY)

• Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Focusing, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

• Somatic Stress Release & Body-Mind Centering

• Somatic Movement + DAnce Therapy, Authentic Movement

• Indigenous Wisdom, Ritual, Heart Coherence

•  Pleasure Activism 

• Therapeutic Creative process through expression (art, movement, voice, writing, somatic imagination)

• Traditional top-down coaching & relational dialogue

You don’t need to know or do all of these.

They are simply the languages I speak fluently—so your system can be met where it is.

If you’d like to learn more about me and explore my training, certifications, and lineages in more depth, you can find that [here].

This work is shaped by many streams, many sources, and I want to honor them here.

Science and soma. Shadow and spirit. Personal practice,  lived experience, and collective wisdom.

My approach is deeply influenced by the teachings, research, and embodied wisdom of mentors and lineages including:

• Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Deb Dana, Pat Ogden, Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Janina Fischer, Dan Siegel, Licia Sky, Scott Lyons,, Albert Wong, and the HeartMath Institute

  for somatic trauma therapy, modern neurobiology and nervous system education, attachment science, embodied resilience, and body as a source of wisdom and healing

• Dick Schwartz, Carl Jung, Eugene Gendlin, Fran D. Booth, Frank Anderson, Susan McConnel

  for soamtic parts work, focusing, shadow integration, depth psychology, and compassion-Self-led body-centered healing and transformation

• Dave Emerson, Manuela Mischke-Reeds, Irene Lyon, Areille Schwartz

  for trauma-sensitive yoga, gentle somatic movement and nervous system informed re-wiring and re-patterning, and body-based integration and resolution

• Ram Dass, Jack Kornfield, Alan Watts, Starhawk, Gabrielle Roth, Wilhelm Reich, 

  for spiritual psychology, ritual, authentic movement, and the remembering of our divine inner spark inheret worth and wild aliveness

• Kai Cheng Thom, Rae Johnson, Staci Haines, Nikem Ndefo

for pleasure and resillience being a birthright, embodied activism, collective shadow work, inclusivity and power with dynamics, accessible empowering somatics and embodied transformation for all

These teachings live in the work, not above it.

They inform how I listen, how I pace, how I invite choice, and how I trust the body’s timing.

I don’t follow one doctrine or method, because there is no one-size-fits-all nervous system.

We are complex, living beings shaped by biology, relationship, culture, systems, ancestry, and lived experience.

This is an integrative, trauma-trained, body-led approach that honors science, the wisdom of the heart, the instinct of the gut, the intelligence of the soma, and the depth of spirit.