ONLINE IN THE BAY AREA & ACROSS CALIFORNIA
Somatic Experiencing
Teaching your body safety.
Schedule a consultation
Recovery Through The
Wisdom of Your Body
Stress and trauma leaves us feeling disconnected from our bodies. You’ve done the self-work, but still find yourself feeling constantly overwhelmed, feeling exhausted and shutdown by the end of the day, and feeling like there’s no way out. You’re maybe feeling something is wrong with you.
But you’re ready to make a change. You want to understand why you show up the way you do. You’re ready to manage your stress. Most of all, you’re ready to heal with your body and feel like yourself again.
What is Somatic Experiencing?
Stress, shock, and trauma shows up in the nervous system and it’s dysregulation impacts your life. Somatic Experiencing (SE) is a gentle, body-oriented therapeutic model, that supports completion of self-protective responses and help with release of stuck survival energy in the body.
By doing so, it address symptoms of trauma. This approach guides the client to slowly to develop an increase tolerance for difficult sensations and suppressed emotions, and works with completing the defensive responses that were once stuck, thus brining resolution to the nervous system.
Benefits of Somatic Experiencing:
Reduction of anxiousness, stress, burnout: Experience relief from overwhelming feelings of fear.
Improved Emotional Regulation: Gain better control over your emotions and reactions.
Enhanced Positive Self-Perception: Increase your sense of self-worth and positive beliefs about yourself.
Relief from loss and grief: Reduce the intensity of grief and increase peace.
Improved perception of past trauma: Decrease of overwhelming emotions of the past event.
Discover the gentle healing of Somatic Experiencing and increase your resiliency.
-
We discuss your prior experience with therapy, adverse life events (without going too deep), your current support system, and coping skills.
-
SE foundation is learning and applying the practices to develop more safety in your body (a.k.a nervous system regulation). Lots of time is spent here. There’s lots of noticing, moments of silence.
-
We address how nutrition contributes to your stress and what supports recovery. Although it’s not a main topic, we do discuss small steps on adding healthy nutrition to help with stress recovery.
-
After spending some time with learning and building capacity for increase safety in the body, we begin to get curious about challenging moments you would like to process. We engage with different channels in our physiology for the reprocessing. There’s a lot of pausing and noticing, and shifting to your resources, to build capacity. Here, the focus is on how your body speaks to you, on what it’s ready to release and integrate.
-
Lastly, we work towards integrating your new emotions, thoughts, and memories. This may look like quiet resting or new insights.
How does Somatic Experiencing work?
Somatic Experiencing (SE) is unlike other type of therapy, in that it follows your unique nervous system pattern. Each session is different.
What do people say after trying Somatic Experiencing?
They have increased confidence to overcome stressors and challenges
Feeling neutral or little disturbance of the trauma
Have new insights
Increased self-compassion and empowerment
More ease, calmness, groundedness, and peace.
Increased strength and resiliency
Somatic Experiencing Sessions
I specialize in providing Somatic Experiencing online to help you recover from stress and trauma. We will discuss what your goals are and how I can best support you.
-
Each session are 50 minutes long. It is best to do sessions in your home in a place you won’t be bothered. Get things that make you feel comfy, like a cup of tea or water, blanket, or pillow.
-
Each session is 50 minutes long. You can choose weekly or bi-weekly sessions.
Typically people meet for 3 to 6 months or more to see results.
-
$220 for each session. Private pay only. Not currently accepting insurance. I can provide a Superbill, where you may get partial or full reimbursement depending on your coverage. Speak to your insurance first.
Together, let’s discover how to work with your body to feel more settled in your life.
faqs
Common questions asked
-
Somatic Experiencing is a personalized approach that focuses on your unique nervous system. I use Somatic Experiencing and Polyvagal tools to help you understand and regulate your nervous system. For longer-term clients, I incorporate Internal Family Systems to help identify and transform the parts of you that keep you stuck in survival mode, fostering self-compassion and confidence.
-
Yes, you can do Somatic Experiencing online. Many people like to be in their home where they feel safe and supportive to engage in SE sessions.
-
During the intake assessment, we get clarity on what you want to process, your current coping skills, and support systems.
However, if you are looking for a faster treatment, than it may not be a good fit for you yet, and it’s best to use other modalities.
You can take your time to prepare your mind and body in the future to engage SE work.
-
Somatic Experiencing is safe when administered by a trained provider. Like many therapy modalities, SE may lead to emotional distress, re-traumatization or dissociation episodes. It’s important to let you provider know to tailor your treatment plan.
-
You can apply first, and will contact you within 24-48 hours during Monday through Thursday.
We schedule your free 15 minute consultation. It’s important that you feel comfortable with me, so that you get the most of Somatic Experiencing. If we are not a good fit, I will provide you with referrals to other trained providers.
If we are a good fit, the first session will be an intake.
-
Each person is unique in their history, traumas, stressors, and nervous system capacity. It’s hard to exactly know when. However, healing stress and trauma is a lifestyle change, to see lasting results.
With consistent weekly sessions and applying tools in their daily life, past clients began seeing changes from 3 to 6 months, and others more than a year.
-
I will block the available time slot we both agree on.
Weekly sessions are available at this time.
Each session is $220 for 50 minutes.
-
No, I only specialize in adults 30 + years of age, primarily women, and BIPOC women.
Although, anyone can reach out if you resonate with my work.
-
For somatic psychotherapy, I am licensed in the state of California. This requires more clinical processing.
If you are interested in just nervous system work through Somatic Experiencing, please still reach out. It wouldn’t be therapy, it would be coaching using Somatic Experiencing.
3 Simple Steps to Stress Relief & Trauma Healing
Experience a transformative journey towards balance and calm.
1
Book Your Free Consultation
Fill out our form to apply for a free 15 minute consultation to learn more how we can support your healing.
2
Purchase Restorative Sessions
Engage in tailored sessions for nervous system healing.
3
Embrace a New Lifestyle
Feel empowered and balanced every day.