Somatic Healing

Somatic healing is based on the understanding that the body (not just the thinking mind or conscious understanding) holds memory, emotion, and lived experience. When overwhelming experiences aren’t fully processed, the nervous system can get “stuck” in survival states like fight, flight, or freeze. For example, you may rationally know an event is over or a relationship wasn’t right, yet the body can still carry it viscerally until it’s resolved and reconsolidated. Through tuning into inner sensations and body signals, somatic healing allows the nervous system to complete what was interrupted, releasing stored patterns and restoring balance. This process works with the unconscious (where most of our experience is shaped!) so that change is not just intellectual but embodied, lasting, and real.

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—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.

Somatics works through the body’s felt sense, where trauma and old patterns are stored unconsciously and viscerally, rather than only through conscious thoughts and analysis. Traditional therapy is “top-down,” focused on cognition, while somatic work is “bottom-up,” using the body’s signals and emotional sensations to resolve the roots of patterns. We importantly still use dialogue, but not to endlessly analyze stories but instead to allow memories, emotions, and insights to emerge organically through nervous system processing. This isn’t about fixing, but about presence with our inner experiences — a key distinction from traditional models — allowing the nervous system to unwind, the brain to rewire, and new patterns of resilience to take root. This work is grounded in trauma science, somatic experiencing, and the nervous system’s innate capacity for neuroplastic change, deepened through contemplative wisdom and presence.

Many of my clients come after therapy, finding it offered valuable insight, yet something deeper still needed tending — the places where unconscious feelings or patterns continued to surface.

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.

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.