Somatic Healing

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.

My style of somatic healing is integrative in nature. See also my:

• somatic relational healing and attachment repair,

• somatic brainspotting and

• trauma release breathwork offerings.

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 steps. 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:

• Reflection & attuned dialogue

• Body awareness & tracking

• Movement & breathwork

• Gentle touch & self-massage

• Co-regulation & relational presence

• Parts work, self-inquiry, and visualization

• Stabilization & containment

• Safe emotional expression

• 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—ensures that 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.

My approach is integrative, drawing from somatics, mindfulness, breathwork, and psychosynthesis parts work—methods that neuroscience and trauma science increasingly affirm. Traditional mental health models are “top-down” focused on cognition, whereas somatic healing works “bottom-up,” through the body’s signals and sensations to resolve the roots of patterns (through feeling). Because many wounds are preverbal and stored viscerally below conscious thought, this approach reaches where words alone cannot and gets to the heart of transformation. Insights and memories emerge more organically, and the nervous system unwinds as new patterns of resilience take root.

Trauma isn’t a pathology, but is an adaptive, protective response wired for survival. Healing trauma means restoring a sense of 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.

While trauma can stem from acute events (“big T”), trauma healing work also works with chronic, developmental, or relational wounding (“small t”) - the subtle yet lasting ways we disconnect from ourselves to survive. These survival strategies become protective identities that mask the authentic heart.

True healing supports the completion of what was once interrupted: stored impulses, repressed emotions, and unresolved stress. As we meet those parts with compassionate presence, the nervous system can slowly restore its natural flow.

Not everything in us is a trauma response, contrary to Instagram, and it’s important not to reduce ourselves to that. But by honoring the ways your body and psyche once protected you, you can now choose a new path, grounded in safety, wholeness, and self-trust.

Even if you don’t resonate with the word trauma or wouldn’t describe yourself as having acute trauma, you may still experience overwhelming emotions, chronic stress, suppressed memories or feelings, unexplained tension or chronic pain, or grief. Trauma science is really about how the nervous system holds and resolves these states, so the same principles of healing apply. Whatever the name, true healing means returning to the body, to presence, and to your innate resilience.

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.