Somatic Work & Trauma-Informed Therapy
I integrate somatic therapy and trauma-informed approaches to support clients in healing from trauma, anxiety, and chronic stress. This work focuses on the connection between the mind and body, helping you understand how trauma and anxiety are held in your nervous system.
Using body-based techniques, nervous system regulation, and parts work, I help you build awareness of your internal experience, process emotions safely, and move through trauma without becoming overwhelmed.
This approach is especially helpful for individuals experiencing high-functioning anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, or difficulty feeling grounded in their body.
Our work focuses on helping you feel more regulated, connected, and in control of your emotional responses, supporting long-term healing, resilience, and lasting change.
My Somatic Approach
My approach to somatic therapy is grounded in the understanding that our earliest relationships and life experiences can shape not only how we see ourselves and connect with others, but also how our bodies and nervous systems respond to stress, vulnerability, and connection. Together, we may gently explore the ways your body has learned to protect you within relationships and throughout your life.
I incorporate grounding, orienting, body awareness, resourcing, and other somatic practices to help you better understand your nervous system, recognize what you need, and develop a greater sense of safety and connection within yourself and your relationships.
This work is always collaborative and guided by your comfort, boundaries, and readiness.
Somatic Exercises include:
Grounding & Orienting: Using your senses and surroundings to connect with the present moment and support a sense of safety.
Body Awareness & Sensation Tracking: Gently noticing physical sensations, tension, and shifts in the body to better understand your emotions and nervous system responses.
Resourcing: Identifying people, places, memories, movements, and experiences that help you feel more grounded and supported.
Breath & Nervous System Regulation: Exploring breathing practices that can support regulation, presence, and connection with your body.
Mindful Movement: Using intentional movement, stretching, or physical gestures to explore emotions, release tension, and reconnect
Boundaries & Embodied Self-Trust: Exploring how your body communicates comfort, discomfort, needs, and boundaries to strengthen your ability to trust yourself.
Brainspotting
I am trained in Brainspotting (Phase 1 and 2), a brain-based trauma therapy that helps people process trauma, anxiety, and emotional stress at a deeper level. Brainspotting is a mind-body therapy similar to EMDR, and it works by using specific eye positions to access areas of the brain where trauma and unprocessed experiences are stored.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, Brainspotting allows us to go beyond thinking and into the nervous system, where trauma, anxiety, and emotional patterns are often held. This can be especially helpful for individuals experiencing high-functioning anxiety, complex trauma, emotional overwhelm, or feeling stuck in patterns that are hard to change through insight alone.
During a Brainspotting session, we work together to identify a “brainspot” (an eye position linked to stored emotional experiences). From there, your brain and body begin to naturally process and release what has been held, at a pace that feels safe and manageable. You remain in control throughout the process, and the work is guided with care and attunement.
As trauma and emotional experiences are processed, many clients begin to notice shifts in anxiety, emotional reactivity, relationships, and self-perception. Patterns that once felt stuck can start to soften, creating space for greater clarity, self-trust, emotional regulation, and a stronger sense of self.
I have seen firsthand how powerful Brainspotting can be in supporting trauma healing and nervous system regulation, and I have also experienced it personally as a client.
Jungian Therapy
Through depth oriented trauma therapy, we can explore not only what happened to you, but how those experiences shaped your inner world and who you are becoming.
How I Integrate Jungian Therapy Into Trauma Work
I integrate Jungian therapy and depth psychology to help clients explore the deeper emotional patterns, unconscious beliefs, and protective identities that may have developed in response to painful or overwhelming experiences.
Jungian psychotherapy looks beyond symptom reduction and creates space to understand the meaning beneath anxiety, people pleasing, perfectionism, relationship patterns, emotional triggers, and feelings of disconnection. Rather than viewing these responses as flaws, we can approach them as adaptations that once served an important purpose.
Through a trauma informed and culturally attuned lens, we may explore themes such as the shadow, archetypes, inner conflict, dreams, symbolism, family roles, and the process of individuation. This can help clients reconnect with parts of themselves that were suppressed, rejected, or hidden in order to survive.
I integrate Jungian concepts alongside somatic therapy, attachment based therapy, Brainspotting, cognitive interventions, and nervous system regulation. This allows us to work with both the body’s trauma responses and the deeper emotional meaning connected to those experiences.
This approach may be especially supportive for individuals who feel stuck in recurring relationship patterns, struggle with identity or self worth, experience chronic anxiety, carry complex trauma, or want to understand themselves on a deeper level.