FAQs

Most breathwork either overstimulates the nervous system or produces profound transpersonal experiences without the support for genuine integration. The result is often temporary cathartic in the moment but not lasting healing or transformation.

My approach is grounded in trauma science, somatic experiencing, and careful relational attunement. Sessions are paced deliberately, with attention to containment, nervous system capacity, and what is actually ready to move. The aim is not just release but reorganization, completion of what was interrupted, held within a safe and integrative field.

Breathwork refers to intentional breathing techniques used to support regulation, presence, and healing.

The breath mirrors the nervous system: it is one of the few voluntary functions that also operates unconsciously, making it a precise entry point into implicit and preverbal layers of experience.

This offering uses conscious connected breath, an intentionally activated rhythmic breathing style. When paired with somatic nervous system work, trauma science, and relational attunement, it supports not just temporary catharsis but genuine nervous system reorganization, often accessing preverbal and developmental layers of experience that other approaches cannot reach.

Somatic nervous system work engages how experience lives in the body at its most implicit levels, in the patterns of activation, protection, and organization that form beneath conscious awareness. When experiences overwhelm our capacity to process them, the system organizes around protection rather than presence. Through bottom-up, felt experience, the nervous system can complete what was interrupted and reorganize from the inside out, restoring safety, coherence, and choice.

In my practice, somatic work is one foundation of a broader integrative approach. Bottom-up nervous system work creates the conditions for top-down developmental and identity work to take root, so that what shifts in the body becomes integrated into how you relate, who you believe yourself to be, and how you live. This is capacity building work.

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 means restoring safety so unfinished responses can complete and regulation, connection, and choice can return.

Similar patterns form through unresolved emotion, developmental adaptation, relational imprinting, and the shaping of identity over time, often outside conscious awareness. Many arrive from a growth-oriented place and find that these same implicit patterns are what limit their next layer of expansion.

For this reason, my work does not separate trauma resolution from developmental integration. As safety is restored and 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 on select days and carry a small additional fee.

Private groups as well as couples’ sessions are also available for breathwork.