Somatics: Embodied awareness heals trauma and restores wholeness

Mind • Body • Spirit

My Approach

In my own healing journey as a survivor of trauma, I spent many years moving through anxiety, compulsive patterns, dysregulation, mood swings, and cycles of hyper and hypo-vigilance. I explored countless modalities over the decades, but it wasn’t until I began incorporating somatic healing 15 years ago that everything truly shifted. Somatics helped me reconnect with my body, reclaim agency, heal trauma from the bottom up, and truly feel empowered in my wellbeing.

Somatic healing is a body-based, holistic approach that reconnects mind, body, and spirit by addressing the physical manifestations of trauma and emotions. It is foundational to my work with reprocessing trauma and nervous-system regulation. I guide you in tracking sensations, recognizing survival patterns, and restoring regulation so you can feel grounded and connected.

Somatics reminds you that you are not broken—your body has been trying to protect you. I trust the body’s intelligence. It carries our wounds, but it also carries our wisdom. This work isn’t about forcing or fixing; it’s about listening, creating safety, and allowing the body and heart to lead. I help you reconnect with the deeper knowing beneath the places shaped by trauma and stress. With sensation-based awareness, trauma-responsive care, and compassion, I help you reconnect with your innate capacity for balance, self-love, and embodied wholeness.

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Los Angeles Regional Reentry Partnership (LARRP) Facilitating a Reentry Trauma Training for Leaders

Ways to Work With Me

1:1 Sessions, Workshops, Trauma Responsive Trainings for Anxiety, ADHD, Dysregulation, & Toxic Stress

Somatic Healing Sessions (1:1)

Co-created sessions that support nervous-system regulation, unwind stored trauma, and restore internal safety, coherence, and self-trust, helping you to reconnect with your authentic, whole self.

Integral Eye Movement Therapy (IEMT)

A gentle, efficient method for shifting emotional imprints and identity patterns that feel “stuck". Helps soften emotional charge and expand perspective.

Root Cause Practice & Intuitive Healing

Deep healing work that addresses emotional, somatic, and energetic imprints. Supports the release of old survival patterns, inherited wounds, and unconscious beliefs while reconnecting you with your intuition and higher self.

Community Resiliency Model (CRM)

A trauma-informed framework that teaches individuals and teams how to recognize nervous-system patterns, settle activation, and strengthen resilience. CRM’s accessible skills support emotional regulation, reduce overwhelm, and foster wellbeing in high-stress environments.

As a Certified CRM Teacher, I have facilitated trauma-responsive nervous-system trainings for the Sexual Assault Investigations: Victim-Centered Engagement and Resiliency Tactics (SAI-VCERT) program with the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission since 2020.