Breathe Free, Move Free, Pain Free
Offering Trauma-Integrated Somatic Therapies and Holistic Coaching
Coming Back Home To Your Whole Self
We’re meant to feel connected—to ourselves, to each other, to this beautiful earth, to the true home inside us that’s always there… That's when it feels right because we feel right. But if we can’t even find enough calm to see clearly, especially when we’re stuck in the grips of anxiety, fear, depression, or confusion; if our nervous system gets so flooded we can’t think straight because our survival strategies keep getting in our way, that possibility of connection and peace seems impossible.
The Power of Understanding Your Neurobiology
Understanding our neurobiology and learning how to work with it, sometimes override it, if and when it isn’t serving us in the moment, can help. Having someone who knows how to listen and reflect and collaborate can help; someone who respectfully welcomes all your parts without judgment can help; somewhere you can put the puzzle pieces together so you can appreciate who you are and realize what you need to feel whole…can help.
You Are More Than a Diagnosis
Our health care systems are poorly equipped to help us with multifaceted chronic conditions that don’t respond well to cookie-cutter protocols. Maybe they’ve called it chronic fatigue/ME, IBS, PTSD, ADHD, OCD, MCS, TBI, DJD, migraine, anxiety, neuralgia, or fibromyalgia, and maybe you have a history of trauma, neglect, depression, or eating disorders, but the names and the treatments don’t quite fit, and that’s not all you are.
Connecting Symptoms to the Whole Story
What might your digestive disorder and back pain have to do with anxiety and insomnia? How can checking in with your body’s felt sense, relaxing focusing practices, diet, and changes to your daily routine help fatigue, migraines, panic attacks, and overall wellness? Why does cultivating present moment awareness help us heal from trauma and manage chronic pain?
I offer a unique multi-disciplined approach that looks at you as a whole person, that connects the dots between your emotional/psychological experiences, habitual patterns, physical symptoms, and the wisdom underneath all that. My work has been continuously evolving for over 40 years, integrating many somatic disciplines, neurobiology, trauma therapy models, mind-body, manual, and movement therapies.
Regulating the Nervous System So Healing Can Happen
We focus on regulating the nervous system so your body can remember how to heal and how to feel what’s good.
We discover the why, when, and how of your adaptive survival behaviors from parts that are trying to protect you when they feel threatened. We work to cultivate a calm, wise adult response when you’re emotionally triggered, so you can practice pausing and choose constructive over destructive behavior.
We restore myofascial integrity and support a natural and dynamic equilibrium between all your body’s systems
Your body holds your history. But you determine your future by being in the present.
A Truly Holistic Mind/Body Approach across disciplines
Here, the worlds of clinical mind/bodywork, holistic health, somatic psychotherapy, trauma therapies,parts work models, neurobiology, therapeutic movement, orthopedic manual therapy, physiotherapies, myofascial release, nutrition, and Ayurvedic and ecological medicine meet and seamlessly creatively interact.
You Don't Have To Do It Alone
Maybe you’re frustrated, have lost hope, don’t have the time, energy or expertise…no one can do it for you but you can’t do it alone. Together, we learn more about the habitual adaptive strategies and behaviors that keep getting in your way. Together, we can develop a customized, personal approach to healing and find the way out of the vicious cycles so you can move forward less weighed down.