The body is the vehicle for us to experience, to live and to feel.

“Somatics” generally focuses on healing trauma through the body, but it’s really about the connection between the mind and body so we can fully feel what needs to be felt and access our innate ability to self-heal.

Our experiences, particularly the ones that are hard to be present with (so we don’t fully feel them!), are stored in the body, or rather create layers of defense, protection, and compensation patterns that keep us in a sense of feeling stuck.

Healing comes through the power of physical sensations and emotional feelings. As we let the emotions and impulses experience themselves, they resolve on their own.

Notice how you get butterflies in your belly when you’re nervous, teary eyed when sad, flush when angry, etc. These are the body’s physiological responses to emotions moving through us.

Somatic healing like somatic experiencing and my breathwork offering are bottom-up methods, rather than top-down methods like traditional therapy. We let the body lead here, rather than the mind.

See also my somatic trauma resolution brainspotting and somatic trauma resolution breathwork offerings.

Trauma is not a pathology, but an adaptive and self-protective or survival response. To heal trauma is to restore a sense of safety.

Our impulses to traumatic experiences need to be expressed and the emotions realized so the autonomic nervous system’s cyclical process can complete. By completing these impulses, feeling what needed to be felt through compassionate presence, and shedding layers of false identity, we can reconnect to our heart and true self which is innately healing and resilient.

Trauma can be acute/shock based that’s from a specific event, developmental based from our early life experiences, or from chronic stress and repressed authentic emotions overtime.

From my perspective, all trauma science and trauma healing is about actual healing, so although not everyone has experienced or identifies with explicit trauma, the inability to be present and be your authentic self is something far more universal.

Don’t get caught up in calling every part of you a trauma response though as that’s not helpful. Instead, use this knowledge as liberation to understand your nervous and attachment systems had initially been responding in a way to protect you. And now, if you’re ready to change, you can do something new. I’d be honored to support you on that journey with this work.

Start by booking a free 15-minute discovery call using the calendar below.

I offer single sessions for returning clients or those seeking just to try the work. But for true transformation, I offer a 7-session package or a 12-session personalized Integrative Container.

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

For those in the New York City area, I always recommend in-person for any of my somatic work as it is more powerful when we’re together. Please reach out to book. I utilize a space in Chelsea, Manhattan.