My focus is on real healing, weaving in trauma science, somatic experiencing, conscious expression. healing touch, integration, and relational elements, not just over-activation for a temporary cathartic high like you see in most holotropic breathwork or even in many psychedelic journeys.

My sessions and pace are unique to you and your nervous system, so I leverage more general somatic embodiment and focus on stabilization or more biodynamic breathwork as needed. I also weave in brainspotting, and energetic based breath to open the subtle body’s capacity to process and change.

The body, as the first layer of mindfulness, supports us in deeper inner awareness and connection to our present moment experience.

The breath, which means spirit or life force across languages, revives our vitality and unlocks our infinite reservoir of compassion ad creativity, opening us up to intimate connections to ourselves, others, and to life.

Activating breathwork in particular is used to access the layers of the autonomic nervous system through stimulation, while putting our analytical and intellectual mind to rest so we focus on feeling.

My focus is again on true healing so is not about over-stimulation, and we engage in stabilization or regulation as much as needed, as well as discovering and expanding resources. But without any stimulation, it’s not trauma healing. We’ll find the sweet spot for you together.

Trauma is healed physiologically, because it’s held physiologically.

For those working through early development trauma or healing, in a series of 7 sessions together we can move through the body’s bands of tension, starting with the eyes and working our way down through our own inner layers of experience.

Each band or belt of tension in the body reflects different dynamics from our fears deep in the abdomen blocking our gut instinct, our relational wounds at the heart, and our authentic expression at the oral belt.

Trauma is so multi-layered so this approach tracks that depth and moves deeper into your center.

Shed layers of defensive mechanisms and identity, revealing new creative resources you didn’t even know you had and make new space within. Feeling is healing and we do this together, through compassionate presence.

Trauma is not a pathology but rather an adaptive, self-protective response designed for survival. Healing trauma is about restoring a sense of safety—so you can be present with yourself and your experiences. Presence is the gateway to returning to your true self, as trauma creates barriers to the heart, which is inherently self-healing.

Trauma can be acute, arising from specific events ("big T trauma"), but what we often call "trauma healing" is, at its core, the essence of all true healing. If it's not trauma healing, it very likely falls under personal development or coaching, even if you’re seeing a therapist for it.

Trauma fundamentally involves an inability to be fully present, with layers of protective identity forming in response—survival strategies that cover the heart. "Small t trauma" is often rooted in developmental experiences from early life, which can be subjective or objective. For many, childhood experiences contain both "big T" and "small t" trauma, but the impact remains the same: a disconnection from presence and one's authentic self.

Our natural impulses in response to trauma need to be expressed, just as the emotions we've suppressed deserve acknowledgment. When these impulses are given space, the autonomic nervous system can complete its cyclical process. Completing this cycle requires feeling what was originally suppressed—and we do that through compassionate presence.

By releasing stored impulses, discharging physical tension, and resolving repressed emotions, we shed layers of identity and reconnect with the heart—our true self, which is both self-healing and resilient.

That said, not every aspect of ourselves is merely a trauma response, and it's unhelpful to label everything that way. Instead, let this understanding be liberating. Recognize that your nervous system and attachment responses once worked to protect you. And now, if you're ready, you can choose something new.

Note: Whether or not you resonate with the term "trauma," you may connect with the effects of chronic stress, repressed emotions, unprocessed grief, or overwhelming experiences. No matter the framing, healing is about returning to the body, to presence, and to your capacity for resilience.

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

Somatic healing is an approach that focuses on the connection between the mind and body to help release trauma, stress, and emotions. It works on the idea that our experiences, particularly the ones that are hard to be present with, 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 can come from addressing this through the power of physical sensations and emotional feelings. Emotions that we allow ourselves to feel, using the body as the vehicle, flow through us and complete 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.

Trauma overwhelms the nervous system and prevents our natural physiological response to the experience to complete. This makes the autonomic nervous system rigid, stuck in the experience of the past, and the life force of the individual unable to freely express. So somatic healing empowers our innate ability to resolve and release trauma on its own, shedding those defensive blocks and returning to our true self.

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

See also my:

• somatic trauma resolution brainspotting offering or

• general somatic healing here

If currently managing a heart condition, detached retina or glaucoma, diagnosed brain or abdomen aneurysm, high blood pressure, uncontrolled diabetes or thyroid conditions, epilepsy, experiencing or being treated for psychotic or mental illness conditions (including diagnosed bipolar or schizophrenia), recent surgery/injury, currently pregnant, or any serious medical or mental condition mentioned that you are unsure about, this type of activating breathwork is not recommended.

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

New York City sessions take place in Chelsea, Manhattan.

Private groups as well as couples sessions are also available.