Our body holds all of our experiences within its cells. Sometimes those experiences cause pain or trauma, resulting in both visible and invisible scars.
Somatic practices, breathwork, coaching, and bodywork can support you in meeting these parts of yourself with love, tenderness, compassion, and forgiveness.
Together, we can learn how your particular nervous system works, why it may present the way it does, and how to unlock its particular patterns in the body.
We can remediate scars, fascial tension, lymphatic stagnation, and more through hands on work.
When there is trauma, the nervous system does its work to protect our bodies and psyches, but with time, stuck trauma can manifest as physical and emotional blockage, pain, numbness, disassociation, postural changes, immobility, dis-ease, and more. Learn how somatic healing, scar tissue remediation, and trauma-informed bodywork can help you release what holds you back from feeling at home in your body.
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What constitutes trauma is different for every human. Trauma can be overt (accident, injury, surgery, disease, birth trauma, physical or sexual abuse), or can be covert (chronic disease or autoimmunity, postural issues, restricted breath, toxic or abusive relationships, shame), and more. Many of these experiences can be wrapped up with one another, creating complex physical, emotional, and psychic holding patterns within the body and within our behaviors and life choices
Through nervous system awareness and regulation, breathwork, hands on techniques, and more, you can
feel at home in your body.
Why Somatics?
You may be wondering, is somatic work, scar tissue remediation, and bodywork right for me?
Whether you are entering this work hoping to connect with your nervous system, heal emotional trauma, release a cesarean birth scar, deal with neck pain, or improve your lymph flow, you have come to the right place.
You may have tried traditional mental health therapy to address trauma, or you may have gone to a massage therapist, physical therapist, or other type of bodyworker, you may have even talked to your primary care physician, OBGYN, or midwife about what you are experiencing. In any or all of these places, you have not seemed to find the healing, understanding, slowness, or results you desire.
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One reason you may not feel met is that your concerns are not addressed holistically. Through my training with Ellen Heed, and as a doula, life coach, and intuitive, I have a unique ability to draw connections that my clients have not heard before, tracing patterns through their bodies, behaviors, families of origin, and more.
Together, we meet your nervous system, your scars, your fascia, your muscles, your organs, and your emotional body with curiosity, reverence, and respect. Until the body is met with understanding, it will not change.
I utilize a variety of practices and techniques to help you and your body feel safe in my hands, including nervous system co-regulation exercises, bone holding, breathwork, meditation, emotion, scar, and body mapping, and others.
When you and your body are ready to dive in further, I may utilize myofascial techniques, fascia blasting, deep tissue work, abdominal or pelvic bodywork, castor oil packs, lymphatic movement, vaginal steaming, craniosacral inspired practices, stretching, etc. I offer my clients lots of self/home care options to continue the work between sessions. We co-create all experiences in a consent based setting.
You want to heal well and wholly.
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Let’s begin the journey together–
Who benefits from this work ?
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People who have experienced trauma in their physical and/or emotional body
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People who want to learn how their nervous system impacts their body, behavior, and emotions
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Postpartum women who have birth related scars, injuries, or trauma, or who have diastasis recti
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Pregnant women who want to be more comfortable and prepare for birth
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Women who have menstruation related pain or dysfunction, including endometriosis
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People who have digestion or other gastrointestinal issues
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People who have scars from injuries or surgeries, especially thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic
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Women experiencing sexual or pelvic pain, pelvic prolapse, urinary incontinence, or who have had gynecological procedures like LEEPs, terminations, hysterectomies, tubal ligations
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Women who have experienced sexual trauma, shame, or abuse, body dysmorphia, disordered eating
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People who experience chronic pain, especially in the neck, back, and pelvis
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People who want to feel more comfortable with physical touch and vulnerability
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You! <3
What are the benefits of somatics, scar work, and bodywork?
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Improved posture & mobility
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Increased capacity for comfort & pleasure
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Decreased pain
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Better circulation and nerve sensation
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Improved digestion
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Improved menstrual cycle
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Decreased scar appearance in some cases
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Trauma release and emotional healing
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Deeper connection to body
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Decreased anxiety
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Deeper understanding of health and how the body works
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Improved sexual function and comfort
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Improved breathing capacity
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Much more!!
Begin your transformation today
Please fill out the adjacent form to book a two hour assessment session in my office. In this session I will invite you to share more about your story, what you know about your nervous system and body, and then we may explore in real time how your body responds to proximity, or touch, if ready. From there, we will schedule follow up sessions based upon what we discover during assessment.