Integrative Somatic Healing

Somatic healing works with the nervous system, where experience is organized beyond conscious thought. Through bottom-up, felt experience, unfinished survival responses can complete, restoring safety, integration, and the capacity for presence and choice, so change becomes embodied,

Sessions meet you where you are. We’ll begin the work with a clear sense of direction informed by your goals, history, and nervous system patterns, while staying closely attuned to real-time feedback from your system.

We combine nervous system regulation, somatic sensing, subconscious work, and guided inner awareness to unwind protective patterns, reconnect to felt emotional experience, and restore a coherent sense of self.

Sessions may include attuned dialogue, body tracking, sensory exploration, micro-movement, imagery, implicit parts work, titration of experience and memory, developmental integration, and attention to relational dynamics—always paced to support integration rather than overwhelm. Through gentle precision, the system moves out of survival and into the conditions where neuroplastic change becomes possible.

This work is not about dramatic release or catharsis, which is often temporary. It’s about subtle, lasting nervous system change that builds capacity, ease, flexibility, and embodiment.

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

Somatic work is often reduced to techniques, exercises, or the pursuit of dramatic emotional release, while nervous system work is reduced to quick fixes and hacks — all of which are temporary fixes.

Neuroscience shows that bottom-up processes—creating conditions of safety, trust, and sensory/interoceptive awareness—are foundational for nervous system change. When these conditions are present, unfinished emotional and survival responses can complete and bracing can soften naturally. Otherwise, tools may offer temporary relief but do not reliably reorganize underlying patterns.

My somatic trauma work therefore prioritizes bottom-up nervous system reorganization first, rather than trying to fix or overcorrect. Sessions are subtle, relational, and carefully paced, guided by sensation, micro-movement, co-regulation, corrective experiences, and moment-to-moment nervous system cues rather than overriding effort or temporary catharsis.

Top-down and developmental work then supports integration. Drawing on neuroplasticity, psychosynthesis, and my SEEED framework—Sense, Equalize, Express, Embody, Distribute—these bottom-up shifts are consolidated into identity, choice, boundaries, and thus embodied in daily life.

My contemplative roots allow me to work at depth with unconscious material while my nervous system specific training means I prioritize precision, care, and safety.

While we still talk throughout our work, my approach does not rely primarily on analysis, story, or insight to create change.

These integrative somatic sessions work bottom-up, engaging sensation, emotion, and the autonomic nervous system—where many patterns form outside conscious awareness. This allows unfinished responses to complete and the nervous system to reorganize from the inside out, rather than trying to manage experience through thought alone.

As safety and capacity develop, I also integrate developmental work so these shifts are consciously held and lived. In this way, nervous system change is not just felt in session, but integrated into identity, boundaries, relationships, and how you move through life.

This work is experiential, relational, and carefully paced. Rather than using insight to override experience, insight emerges naturally as coherence grows.

Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive survival response.

When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the nervous system organizes around protection rather than presence. Healing trauma means restoring safety so unfinished responses can complete, allowing the system to return to regulation, connection, compassion, and choice. This restores the capacity to be intimately present with oneself and life.

Not everyone has necessarily experienced explicit trauma, yet similar protective patterns can form through unresolved memories, repressed emotion, developmental adaptation, relational imprinting, and the natural shaping of identity over time. These patterns shape how the nervous system relates to safety and belonging, often outside our conscious awareness.

For this reason, my work does not separate trauma resolution from developmental integration. Survival responses, attachment patterns, and sense of self co-develop, and healing involves restoring nervous system safety while also integrating how identity and perception formed around our lived experience. As unfinished responses complete, presence, agency, and authentic expression emerge naturally.

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.