Somatic Brainspotting
for Healing & Growth

When we think or talk about a highly charged experience, the body often reacts before the mind does, and our eyes instinctively fix on a particular spot that reflects that stored activation. Brainspotting uses this natural orienting reflex of the eyes and midbrain to access deeper limbic and body-based memory networks, where experience is held beneath conscious awareness.

It is a simple, contemplative process that works through focused eye positions and shared attunement, allowing the nervous system to process and integrate what it has been organizing around, at its own pace and depth.

They share roots but work differently. EMDR uses guided bilateral eye movements within a highly structured protocol. Brainspotting uses specific gaze points to locate where activation is held in the nervous system, then follows the client's own process in the present moment rather than a predetermined sequence.

Brainspotting tends to be slower, more contemplative, and more body-centered. In my practice it is integrated with somatic work, mindfulness, and an understanding of neuroplasticity, so the process supports both resolution and the building of new capacity.

I do not offer EMDR and am not a licensed therapist. I am a certified Brainspotting practitioner, certified somatic and DARe practitioner, developmental coach, and meditation teacher, currently completing an MS in Applied Neuroscience.

Somatic nervous system work engages how experience lives in the body at its most implicit levels, in the patterns of activation, protection, and organization that form beneath conscious awareness. When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the system organizes around protection rather than presence. Through bottom-up, felt experience, the nervous system can complete what was interrupted and reorganize from the inside out, restoring safety, coherence, and choice.

This is not movement, fitness, or bodywork. This is capacity building work. It operates at the level of the nervous system itself, where experience, identity, and the capacity for presence are actually held.

In my practice, bottom-up nervous system work and top-down developmental and identity work operate together. Unlike other animals, human cortical architecture means we cannot simply discharge our way back to equilibrium. Meeting experience fully requires both a regulated nervous system and a coherent sense of self to meet it with. The mind-body revolution was meant to unite the two.

Most somatic work stays in sensation only, rather than mind-body connection. Embodying change means the physical body, emotional experience, cognitive mind, relational patterns, and sense of self all have to update together.

Sensation is one of five channels through which implicit experience is accessed, alongside imagery, behavior, emotion, and meaning. Experience lives across all of them, and this work moves through all of them, because genuine change requires updating not just the nervous system but our inner identity through which all perception is framed.

This matters especially for developmental patterns, which form through early attachment and shape the nervous system, sense of self, and capacity for relating. They heal the same way: subtly, relationally, and through the full depth of experience.

Every person arrives differently. The work meets you where you are.

I am a certified somatic practitioner, developmental coach, and meditation teacher, not a licensed therapist. My model is somatic, developmental, relational, and contemplative, without diagnosis or medical treatment. This work accesses the implicit layers where patterns actually live, bottom-up through the nervous system and top-down through developmental and psychosynthesis-informed work.

Most clients arrive after other inner work like therapy that offered support in meaningful ways and are now ready for something more inside out. This work has a greater growth-forward orientation, with the past surfacing organically rather than directing energy there. With a greater focus on building the capacity for inner emotional presence and a whole sense of self, clients often describe this as reaching what other approaches have circled around.

I will always communicate transparently if this work is not the right fit.

Sessions are either online from anywhere in the world via live Zoom, or in-person in NYC.

In-person sessions are in Midtown Manhattan and carry a small additional fee.