About Somatic Therapy

Through weaving awareness between the felt sense, emotion and belief, Somatic Therapy cultivates your capacity to live from the intersection of body, mind and spirit. A union of talk-therapy and bodywork, Transformative Touch Somatic Therapy uses supportive touch and dialogue to guide you into safety and connection with your body so that you may integrate the information it has for you. 

This work is collaborative. Together, we go to your body with questions and follow what is revealed. We begin with a check-in and connect with the experiences, emotions, states or patterns that you’ve been chewing on through-out the week. We slowly bring the body into the conversation to awaken sensory information. From here, you have the option of going to the table where you can lie down to support a restful dropping in or you can stay seated in your chair. In either case, we embark on a conversation with your body, the home of the unconscious. This gives the neo-cortex, your rational thinking mind the opportunity to quiet which allows information from the limbic system or the subconscious to come forth. If welcome, I offer touch to support connection, safety, awareness, felt sense and movement of energy. The process of Transformative Touch Somatic Therapy grew out of the Rubenfeld Synergy Method as well as Feldenkrais: Awareness through Movement, Alexander Technique and Clinical Psychology.

Energy needs to move. When an instinctual or soul response is truncated, cut off, unfinished or pushed down, it is stored in the body as trauma, as unprocessed energy. Like a record skipping in the same spot over and over again, the needle of the player needs some gentle re-attunement, needs to be carefully reminded of a new path, so that the music can move forward with ease. As Gabor Mate reminds us, “Trauma is not the external event that happens, trauma is the impact of that event which is the disconnection from ourselves.” Working with the body we work with the body’s experience of historical and present day impacts and give your whole self the chance to be recognized, respected and remembered.