Trauma Therapy & Nervous System Healing

Trauma recovery cannot ignore the body.

Trauma changes more than our thoughts—it changes the way our nervous system experiences safety, connection, and the world around us.

Healing requires more than insight. It requires helping the body learn that the danger has passed

SE is a highly specialized body oriented approach aimed at resolving emotional stress in the nervous system.

 
 

Why Work With Me?

Trauma recovery is one of the primary specialties of my practice. I have advanced training through the Somatic Experiencing International professional program and integrate Somatic Experiencing with attachment science, Emotionally Focused Therapy, neuroscience, and relational psychotherapy. My clinical experience includes years of working with individuals and families navigating developmental trauma, addiction, psychiatric illness, chronic illness, and complex mental health presentations across outpatient, intensive outpatient, residential, and integrated care settings. This breadth of experience allows me to thoughtfully tailor treatment to each client's nervous system, relationships, and lived experiences.

Why Does My Body Feel Stuck?

Somatic therapy works in the interplay between our physiological state and our emotions.

Trauma is not only remembered by the mind—it is experienced through the body. You may notice feeling constantly on edge, emotionally numb, exhausted, hypervigilant, disconnected, or trapped in patterns that seem impossible to think your way out of. These are often signs of a nervous system that has adapted to survive difficult experiences. Somatic therapy works with the body's natural capacity for regulation, helping clients gradually restore a greater sense of safety, flexibility, and connection.

Everyone can benefit from learning how to become better in touch with the rhythm of their nervous system, especially those who have experienced chronic stress or trauma.

specialized areas:

  • Complex and developmental trauma

  • PTSD and traumatic stress

  • Attachment wounds

  • Anxiety and chronic nervous system dysregulation

  • Autoimmune disorders and chronic illness

  • Chronic pain

  • Medical trauma

  • Grief and traumatic loss

  • Addiction and recovery

  • High-functioning professionals experiencing chronic stress

 

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Trauma is not just an event, it is a disruption in the body’s natural rhythms. healing begins wen we re-establish connection to our physical sensations and allow the body to release what it has been holding”

— dr. gabor mate

 

My work integrates Somatic Experiencing with Emotionally Focused Therapy, attachment science, neuroscience, and relational psychotherapy. Rather than focusing solely on symptom reduction, I help clients understand how trauma has shaped both their nervous system and their relationships, creating opportunities for lasting emotional and physiological healing.

 

Advanced Professional Training

• Somatic experiencing professional 3-year training program: Beginning III, Intermediate III and Advanced II (touch)

• Integrating somatic experiencing and emotionally focused therapy, facilitated by Dr. Peter Levine and Dr. Sue Johnson

• Working with domestic violence survivors through a somatic lens

 

helping people create safer, healthier relationships through emotional and nervous system integration.

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Coherence can be defined as: Connected, Open, Harmonious, Engaged, Receptive, Emerging, Noetic, Compassionate, Empathic. The movement toward wellbeing is a movement toward Integration. Coherence entails a flexible state of harmony that embraces the many aspects of neural functioning and interpersonal connections… brain stem, limbic/right and left hemisphere processes. As Integration is achieved across the numerous dimensions of living, a sense of the unity of being is revealed.
— Daniel J. Siegel, (in press) Mindsight