Somatic Therapy in New Mexico, Colorado, & Florida
Your body is part of your story—and it needs to be part of your healing, too.
Your body is constantly communicating with you. A tightening in your chest, a clenched jaw, the urge to move, freeze, hide, push away, or make yourself smaller can all be meaningful information.
Somatic therapy invites us to slow down and become curious about these experiences—not as problems to fix, but as ways your nervous system communicates.
Listening to what your body needs
Somatic therapy recognizes the connection between your thoughts, emotions, nervous system, and physical experience. Rather than focusing only on what you're thinking or talking about, we also pay attention to what you're experiencing in your body.
Sometimes traumatic or overwhelming experiences involve an action or response that wasn't possible at the time. You may have wanted to run, fight, push someone away, yell, protect yourself, reach for support, or move toward safety, or instead you had to freeze, stay quiet, or push through, in order to survive.
Somatic work can gently explore whether your system is still carrying some of those unfinished protective responses. Rather than recreating what happened, we pay attention to what your body may be asking for now.
What might a session look like?
We might start with something you're noticing in your body—a tight chest, a heavy feeling, tension in your shoulders, an urge to pull away, or a sense of shutting down. Instead of immediately trying to change it, we'll slow down and get curious about the experience.
Sometimes your body may want to complete a movement or action that wasn't possible before. That could mean pressing your hands into something, pushing away, making a sound, shaking, taking up space, setting a boundary, or offering yourself an embrace. Sometimes there is no movement at all—just an opportunity to stay present with a sensation and discover what happens when you listen.
Building a different relationship with your body
Your nervous system has spent your life adapting and protecting you. Somatic work can help you become more familiar with its signals and develop more choice in how you respond.
We may work with sensation, movement, breath, grounding, boundaries, body awareness, and nervous-system regulation. The goal isn't to always feel calm or to control your body's responses. It's to feel more connected to yourself and more able to respond to what you need.
I may integrate somatic work with EMDR, IFS, Brainspotting, mindfulness, and other trauma-informed approaches.
If you're a deep feeler, empath, or sensitive soul, you may notice that you don't just think about experiences—you feel them. Somatic work can help you become more attuned to those experiences and better understand what your body needs.
