Somatic Coaching and Therapy
Somatic Coaching & Therapy for Stress, Anxiety, and Disconnection
Feel More Present in Your Body and Life
If you wake up tense, feel stuck in habitual stress, or notice that your emotions show up physically (tight chest, shallow breath, tension in your neck), then somatic coaching and therapy helps you understand those sensations and work with them, not around them.
The distance we live from our body is the distance we live from our self and from our emotional reality.
In a socially manufactured society, separation from spirit and our own biology, the capacity for us to feel and sense what is happening has been lost. When we spend our free time in our devices, or feeding our souls with drugs, alcohol, food or our soothing mechanism of choice, we continue to separate ourselves from our bodies and innate wisdom.
What does Somatic mean?
Somatic means ‘from the body.’ It’s about how your nervous system holds stress, emotion, and hard-wiring from the past. By noticing sensations, breath, tension, ease, you begin to shift patterns that have lived beneath words alone.
What actually happens in a session?
In your first session, you might experience:
Breath-based awareness to notice where stress lives in your body
Gentle movement or grounding exercises to calm the nervous system
Guided reflection that connects sensations with emotions
A sense of feeling seen in your body, not just your thoughts
Who thrives with somatic coaching
and therapy?
Folks struggling with chronic stress, tension, or burnout
People noticing emotional patterns held in the body
Those who’ve “tried talk therapy alone” but still feel stuck
Anyone ready to feel grounded rather than disconnected
Imagine Anna, who came in after years of “pushing through” stress and noticing her shoulders were permanently tight. Through somatic work, she learned to notice the first physical sign of stress before it spiraled, and began interrupting that cycle with breath and awareness.
What causes us to feel overwhelmed?
Overworking can cause us to feel disconnected and regimented, while major or even minor accidents can wake us up to how we're feeling and stop us in our tracks.
Illness can also lead to feelings of lethargy and being stuck. When we don't involve the body in the healing process, the patterns we've created remain.
As a somatic coach and therapist, my aim is to help you develop ways of knowing, thinking, perceiving, and acting that promote openness and responsiveness to your life.
My approach integrates cognitive techniques and verbal dialogue with mindful awareness and exploration of bodily sensations, feelings, and actions.
Our goal is to stabilize the reactive mind and disentangle defensive patterns that arise when we feel unsafe.
Requirements for Somatic Coaching
and Therapy
Therapists require a Master’s degree, Internship (pre- and postgraduate internship), and some form of license to practice.
Coaches don’t have the same licensing or degree process, and each of them find their way to a niche that led them to coach
the group of people they serve.
I see myself as a mind/body therapist and coach.
I have the equivalent of two Master’s Degrees, and years of specialized training in therapeutic body based modalities.
I facilitate a process that has been honed through time, somatic training, and have sifted through the best tools to create a process that works best for my clients. The process of somatic coaching involves the subtle body, energy, and a depth of awareness, very similar to my learning as a Therapeutic Yoga Teacher for Phoenix Rising.
With decades of training and experience, I help you feel empowered in your body, not just intellectually understood.