Somatic Experiencing®
- Non Cathartic Chronic Stress and Trauma Integration -
A gentle path home to your body, your truth, your wholeness
During a Somatic Experiencing® (Peter Levine) session, we work with the subject or intention you bring and gently explore how your nervous system is responding to it in the present moment.
Rather than trying to change or overcome your experiences, we learn to develop resources, create a greater sense of safety in the body, and build the nervous system’s capacity for resilience and regulation.
I will guide you through experiential exercises that combine awareness, conversation, movement, sensation, and the body’s natural responses. At a pace that feels manageable for you, we create the conditions for patterns of energy that have become frozen, interrupted, or shut down to gradually become available for completion and reintegration.
The intention is not to force a release, but to help your nervous system develop enough safety and capacity to reconnect with what has been held outside of conscious awareness, and to integrate these experiences in a way that supports greater aliveness, choice, and presence.
Somatic Experiencing® is an invitation to reawaken that natural intelligence
It’s not just a way to resolve trauma.
It’s a way to soften the grip of the past, reclaim the present moment, and reawaken the energy that sits beneath patterns of tension, anxiety, numbness, or overdrive.
Who is Somatic Experiencing® For?
When we experience overwhelming stress—whether acute or chronic—our nervous system may get stuck in survival modes: fight, flight, freeze, or collapse. Over time, these unresolved patterns shape how we feel, relate, and live. They can keep us:
On high alert, always worrying for what’s next
Feel stuck in cycles of anxiety, overwhelm, or shutdown
Impacted by Accidents or unfortunate life events
Locked in Self-Doubt, shame or confusion
Cut off from your emotions or from others
Sense that talk therapy alone isn’t reaching the roots
Want to feel more embodied, present, and real
Are integrating experiences from plant medicine, spiritual practices
Long to live with more ease, depth, and connection
Feeling like something is “off,” but not knowing what
Whether you come with a clear story or just a quiet sense that something’s not quite aligned—there is space for you here.
Somatic Experiencing® works directly with the nervous system, not through rehashing stories, but through gentle, body-based awareness, helping the system discharge stored survival energy and restore regulation at a foundational level.
What a Somatic Experiencing® Session Is Like
Our work together is slow, attuned, and respectful to your body and its processes. We will learn how to listen, to feel safe and we’ll follow your pace and your body’s subtle cues.
In sessions, we may explore:
Both the story and the responses of your body
Sensations, images, impulses, emotions
How you notice safety, or the lack of it
Slowing down and creating safe space for what is to be felt
Micro-movements, gestures, and grounding
Pendulation: gently moving between activation and regulation