How I Work

I integrate trauma-informed somatic therapy with hands-on bodywork and energetic balancing.

Sessions may include:

  • Gentle, attuned therapeutic touch

  • Somatic Experiencing techniques for nervous system regulation

  • Polarity Therapy to support energetic and structural balance

  • Grounding and orienting practices

  • Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) or Rest and Restore Protocol (RRP) when appropriate

  • Hypnosis and Neuro-Resilience Exercises

This work is collaborative and paced to your system. Nothing is forced. Nothing is rushed.

Over time, many clients experience:

• Greater calm
• Less reactivity and anxiety
• Release of chronic tension
• Clearer boundaries
• A deeper sense of embodiment

This is not about fixing you.
It is about helping your system remember how to feel safe and organized again.

Polarity Therapy

Polarity Therapy is a holistic system of touch and energetic balancing that works with the natural flow of energy in the body. It supports alignment between physical structure, emotional experience, and subtle energetic patterns.

Sessions are intuitive and responsive to your system. Touch may be light and still, deeply calming and balancing, or more active and stimulating — always guided by what your body needs in the moment. The intention is to encourage the free flow of energy from head to toe, restoring coherence and vitality.

This work creates space for the body–mind–spirit to communicate through sensation, memory, imagery, and emotion. As awareness deepens, patterns that have been held in the system can begin to shift.

Polarity Therapy also includes simple energetic exercises that help maintain balance and support integration between sessions.

Click here to view a video of a Polarity Therapy session.
Please note that our work together may differ from what is shown, but the video offers a general sense of how Polarity Therapy can be experienced.

Massage & Touch Therapy

Massage and therapeutic touch address the physical body directly, helping to release tension, reduce pain, and support recovery from stress or injury.

Sessions may include more traditional techniques, or slower, intentional touch designed to identify and soften defensive holding patterns in the body.

These holding patterns often develop early in life as protective strategies. Over time, they can become the root of chronic tension, restricted movement, and persistent discomfort.

Depending on your needs, our work may draw from:

• Swedish Massage
• Deep Tissue techniques
• Polarity-based structural balancing
• Myofascial Release

Each session is responsive to your system, blending techniques in a way that supports both physical relief and deeper regulation. All bodywork is done with clothes on, allowing you to remain comfortable and at ease throughout the session.

Somatic Experiencing®

Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a body-based approach to resolving trauma and chronic stress, developed by Dr. Peter Levine, author of Waking the Tiger and In an Unspoken Voice.

SE understands trauma not as the event itself, but as the residual survival energy that remains stored in the nervous system when protective responses cannot fully complete.

Rather than retelling or reliving difficult experiences, this work gently guides attention to present-moment sensation. Together, we build capacity to stay with bodily activation in small, manageable increments, allowing the nervous system to gradually discharge held survival energy.

Through this slow and supported process, the body can complete instinctual fight, flight, freeze, or collapse responses that were once interrupted.

As regulation returns, many people experience:

• Reduced anxiety and hypervigilance
• Greater emotional range and resilience
• Less shutdown or numbness
• A growing sense of internal safety

Somatic Experiencing restores balance to the nervous system and supports a renewed capacity to engage in life with steadiness and choice.

This work is also informed by an understanding of developmental trauma and early attachment patterns, recognizing how the body organizes around unmet needs and relational disruptions.

Neuro Resilience Exercises (NRE)

Neuro Resilience Exercises (NRE) is a neurologically informed methodology designed to support resilience in the face of traumatic stress.

At its core, NRE recognizes that many symptoms of overwhelm are linked not only to over-activation in the nervous system, but also to areas that are under-activated or under-supported. Through sensory-based rehabilitation and practical education, NRE helps restore balance by gently strengthening the system’s capacity for orientation, containment, and relational stability.

In my work, I use elements of NRE to help clients become more oriented to their present-day body as a container for their experience.

Rather than being swept away by sensation or emotion, you begin to develop the capacity to:

• Notice what is happening in real time
• Stay connected to your physical boundaries
• Hold activation without becoming flooded
• Feel grounded while remaining emotionally open

These exercises support the nervous system in building steadiness from the inside out. Over time, the body becomes less reactive and more capable of containing experience with resilience and flexibility.