Somatic healing is rooted in the understanding that the body—not just the conscious, thinking mind—holds memory, emotion, and lived experience. Unresolved trauma or emotional overwhelm can remain in the nervous system as implicit memory until processed, quietly shaping how we feel, respond, and relate in daily life, often without our awareness.

Emotions are physiological. Notice how you feel butterflies in the stomach when nervous, tears rising when sad, heat in the face when angry? These are the body’s natural ways of processing emotion: responses that happen physiologically and viscerally, below the level of intellect alone.

But when experiences are too overwhelming or life interrupts the natural process, the nervous system can become “stuck” in survival states like fight-flight-freeze. Somatic healing supports the body in reharmonizing by completing what was once interrupted, allowing for release, resolve, and return to presence.

This work engages the unconscious, which we experience most vividly through interoception (our inner sensations) and proprioception (our sense of movement and position). Modern neuroscience confirms that the unconscious shapes the vast majority of human experience, and that lasting change happens when we work with these deeper layers directly. By using the body as the vehicle for awareness and integration (so not just as a set of movements or poses) somatic healing helps us access, process, and transform what words alone often cannot reach.

Every session is unique as it’s about attuning to your body and inner world. Sessions are not a routine. Together, we create space to listen to inner signals, support your nervous system in finding balance, and safely process activation so true healing can unfold.

All of my work is grounded in neuroplastic change and trauma-healing methods that gently work with intensity in careful and specific steps to retrain the nervous system. This way, release isn’t just temporary catharsis but becomes lasting integration. I call this my signature process: Sense, Equalize, Express, Embody, and Distribute.

A session may include:

• Attuned reflection dialogue

• Body awareness, tracking, and oscillation

• Movement & breathwork

• Gentle touch & self-massage

• Co-regulation & relational presence

• Parts work, self-inquiry, and visualization or sensory exploration

• Safe emotional expression and exploration

• Inner insight and integration

The pace is always unique to your nervous system and grounded in compassionate presence. Some sessions are reflective, some more expressive, but all are collaborative and non-judgmental. Somatic healing sessions typically begin by creating safe stability and then gently widen into the space where activation and resolution can unfold.

Put simply: we listen, we feel, we complete, we integrate, and repeat.

These aren’t talk therapy sessions with a few breathing cues, nor movement classes in disguise. Somatic healing, as I practice it, is a relational and attuned process that uses the body’s physiology as the doorway into unconscious patterns, memory, and emotion. It’s not about fixing yourself but about remembering who you are beneath layers of protection.

As somatic work becomes more popular, it’s often reduced to surface techniques. But true somatics isn’t just about poses or routines. It’s about cultivating presence so the nervous system can complete what was left unfinished, process unconscious material, and reveal its own innate insight. The body–mind connection is the vehicle for this deeper transformation.

My contemplative roots offer depth and the ability to truly work with the unconscious material, but I ground all of this work in neuroscience and neuroplastic change. My signature process—Sense, Equalize, Express, Embody, and Distribute—helps to ensure the shifts you experience don’t fade when the session ends but take root in your nervous system and daily life.

Each session is tailored to your nervous system, your goals, and your natural pacing. The process is one of listening, feeling, and integrating, supporting the body’s innate capacity to release what has been held and return to presence.

I’m an integrative somatic practitioner whose work evolved from years of teaching meditation, now further grounded through an MSc in Applied Neuroscience. My approach integrates somatic depth, contemplative practice, and neuroscience to support transformation from the inside out. I’m not a licensed therapist, and my framework differs in both method and philosophy, though interestingly, much of the modern mental-health field is beginning to move in this direction.

Trauma is often stored and resolved through the body’s implicit memory systems, while contemplative traditions have long recognized presence and the unconscious as gateways to transformation. This isn’t symptom management or cognitive modification, but a holistic process of engaging the body’s signals so the nervous system can unwind, insights can emerge organically, and lasting integration can take root.

Because many patterns are preverbal and stored below conscious thought, this work can reach where talk therapy alone may not. While therapy and somatic work can complement each other beautifully, they differ in method and philosophy. This process focuses on presence and feeling rather than fixing. It draws on trauma science, the nervous system, and neuroplasticity — areas often, oddly, beyond the scope of traditional mental-health training.

Healing, to me, is not just about revisiting past pain but also about opening to future possibility. That’s why I integrate psychosynthesis coaching and developmental tools, so new capacity becomes embodied in daily life and direction forward. Lasting transformation lies in the delicate paradox of both release and creation, memory and possibility.

Trauma isn’t a pathology, but an adaptive survival response. Healing trauma means restoring safety so you can be present with yourself again. Presence is the gateway back to your true self, because trauma creates barriers to the heart, which is inherently self-healing.

Trauma may come from acute events (“big T”) or from chronic, developmental, or relational wounding (“small t”). These survival strategies can become protective identities that mask the authentic heart. Healing supports the completion of what was once interrupted—stored impulses, emotions, and stress—so the nervous system can restore its natural flow.

Not everything in us is a trauma response importantly but honoring the ways we once protected ourselves opens the path to safety, wholeness, and self-trust (and thus a guiding and stabilizing intuition). Even if you don’t identify with the word trauma, the same principles apply to grief, chronic stress, or unexplained tension: true healing means returning to the body and self, to presence, and to your innate resilience.

Psychosynthesis is a spiritually grounded depth psychology that views us as whole beings made of many soul parts, each with its own voice, need, or history. It predates Internal Family Systems therapy (IFS) by several decades, but takes a more integrative approach: rather than endlessly fragmenting into parts, the aim is more deeply to synthesize them in service of the deeper Self. What makes psychosynthesis unique is that it weaves together both shadow work—meeting the messy, wounded aspects of our past—with transpersonal integration, inspiration, and future-oriented goals. This balance allows for true healing and transformation, because we’re not just processing pain, but also aligning with meaning, higher ideals, and the authentic wholeness at the core of who we are. Even as modern therapy seeks to adopt this work of synthesizing the psyche’s parts (“parts work”) it’s not possible without transpersonal integration.

Everything. True healing is a natural, human process rooted in spiritual wisdom and philosophy, long before therapy or treatment protocols existed. It’s not about fixing; it’s about remembering who you are beneath the layers of survival and defense.

Trauma, including unprocessed emotions, disrupts our life force and severs us from our authentic self. At its core, trauma is often a loss of meaning, a spiritual crisis. Healing restores that meaning through compassionate presence and alignment with the will of your heart.

Importantly, spirituality is not a means of escapism, future fixing, nor compulsivity; that’s delusion. Spirituality, to me, is you connecting to the reason you are here, your heart’s will. That’s the way.