Somatic Therapy: Soma, Greek sōmatikos "of the body," and therapy, Therapeia (Ancient Greek) Devoted service; attentive care. It is devoted and attentive care with practitioner and client in relationship, tending to the body and nervous system as a foundation for all healing, balance, and expansion, including spiritual. Soma is the foundation, which supports greater integrated reconnection with mind, heart, and soul.

Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented therapeutic model that helps heal trauma and other stress disorders. Developed by Peter Levine, Ph.D., it is the result of the multidisciplinary study of stress physiology, psychology, ethology, biology, neuroscience, indigenous healing practices, and medical biophysics, with more than 45 years of successful clinical application. Essentially, Somatic Experiencing® helps people who have experienced trauma to regulate their own nervous systems and to process trauma, often after years of having experienced anxiety, stress, depression, and other disorders secondary to dysregulation from the unprocessed traumatic event(s) they experienced.

Completion of a 3 year trauma and nervous system training program in addition to case consults and personal Somatic Experiencing® sessions are required to become a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner®.

No. I offer both in person and remote (via Zoom). While there are certainly benefits to both, we don’t have to live in the same place. If you have more questions about that, I’m happy to share more.

No. I’m not a licensed practitioner and do not diagnose nor prescribe. I support nervous system flexibility and regulation for women whose systems adapted and developed as highly sensitive. I support multi-level healing and intuitive self trust from the strong foundation of somatic presence and more stability.

No. If you’d like to use an HSA to pay, we can discuss that possibility.

Initiatic Art Therapy includes therapeutic art making approaches suitable for diverse client groups.

These visual art tools stabilize and build trust, offering a gentle yet effective non-verbal mode of engagement.

This certification training was developed by Cornelia Elbrecht, an art therapist for more than 40 years, and includes approaches from Jungian Depth Psychology, Humanistic and Transpersonal Psychology, Gestalt Therapy and mindfulness practice.

Guided Drawing® uses rhythmic bilateral repetition to explore emotions and felt sensations in the body as flowing or blocked internal movements. Trauma manifests physiologically as bracing patterns, tension, pain or numbness, accompanied by strong emotions.

Here the focus is not on the story of what happened, but on the implicit responses needed in that present moment. The process is self-guided, which is profoundly empowering for the client. The therapist has the option to introduce archetypal shapes as interventions to structure and support this bottom-up approach.

Trauma is held in the body and can only be undone through embodying interventions.

Body-focused movement therapy

Guided Drawing® tracks the felt sense in the body through rhythmic bilateral movements.

These build implicit trust and encourage active responses to once overwhelming experiences.

Certification training was developed and taught by Cornelia Elbrecht, a trauma informed art therapist for more than 40 years.