Many approaches to healing focus mostly on talking and trying to change the way we think about our experiences.

While this can be helpful, overwhelming experiences often live deeper in the body and nervous system. That’s why people can understand something logically and still feel anxious, shut down, or stuck.

Somatic trauma coaching supports your natural capacity for healing.

In our work together, we slow down and gently pay attention to what is happening real time in your body, emotions, and inner experience.

We also explore, with curiosity and compassion, the different parts of you that had to develop protective strategies in order to cope with and survive difficult experiences.

The goal is not to force change, but to help your nervous system feel safer and more supported so patterns of stress, protection, and overwhelm can gradually soften and shift.

Following loss many people can feel pressure to move on, stay busy, or find closure.

When someone we love dies, or when life changes in a profound way, it deeply affects us. It requires us to slow down and gently reorient to a life that has been irrevocably changed. This takes time, care, and space.

Grief companioning is a gentle, human-centered way of supporting people who are living with loss. Instead of trying to fix grief and return to “normal”, the focus is on allowing the many expressions of grief to be seen, felt, and supported.

Grief companioning is an approach that supports the bereaved as they move toward acceptance, process the many layers of emotion and secondary losses, and eventually integrate the experience so their love and connection can carry forward in a meaningful way.

Somatic EMDR is often used to help people process trauma, ongoing triggers, and distressing memories that continue to affect them long after an event has passed.

When something overwhelming happens, the brain and nervous system may not fully process the experience. Instead, parts of the memory can remain stored in an unprocessed form, which can cause the nervous system to react as if the event is happening again, even when the person is currently safe.

Somatic EMDR helps the brain gently return to these experiences in a structured and supported way so they can be processed and integrated. By slowly working with memories, body sensations, and emotions, the nervous system can begin to release what has been held and move toward greater calm and safety.

The memory does not disappear, the relationship to it changes. Many people find they feel more grounded, more present, and less triggered by reminders of the past.

Mind–Body Coaching is a supportive approach that helps you explore the connection between your thoughts, emotions, body, impulses, beliefs, and actions.

Using a 5-part coaching cycle of change model to guide the work, the emphasis is on personal growth, self-understanding, and meaningful change.

Through conversation and simple awareness practices, Mind–Body Coaching helps you notice how your experiences shape your reactions, reconnect with your inner wisdom, and respond to life in ways that feel more aligned with who you are.

Somatic Attachment Coaching helps people understand and heal patterns in relationships.

Many of the ways we respond in relationships begin early in life. If connection with caregivers felt inconsistent, overwhelming, or unavailable, the nervous system learned ways to adapt in order to stay safe. These patterns may show up later as anxiety in relationships, fear of closeness, difficulty trusting, people-pleasing, or shutting down during conflict.

These responses are not flaws — they are protective patterns the body learned a long time ago.

A somatic approach recognizes that these patterns are not only in our thoughts. They also live in the body and nervous system. That’s why we may react strongly in relationships even when we don’t want to.

In our work together, we gently slow down and notice how your body responds to connection, distance, and conflict. By bringing awareness and support to these responses, your nervous system can begin to experience relationships in new ways.

Over time, many people find they feel safer in connection, better able to set boundaries, and more able to trust themselves and others.

I offer compassionate support for parents during pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and following perinatal loss. This time brings profound physical, emotional, and life changes, and many parents experience anxiety, overwhelm, intrusive thoughts, exhaustion, or uncertainty. These responses are common and do not mean something is wrong with you.

With my training in Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders (PMADs) and a range of trauma-healing modalities, I provide a non-pathologizing, compassionate space for you to talk openly about what you are experiencing. Together, we can explore challenges such as emotional overwhelm, shifts in identity, anxiety, the pressures of caring for a new baby, perinatal loss, or navigating the postpartum period.

I also support parents in processing difficult or traumatic birth and medical experiences, which can leave lasting physical and emotional imprints. My work focuses on helping you feel seen, supported, and steadier in your nervous system, while building trust in yourself and your capacity to navigate pregnancy, birth, and early parenthood.

The earliest period of life, from gestation through the first three years, is a critical time for the development of the brain and nervous system. During this time, experiences such as pregnancy conditions, birth experiences, early attachment with the birthing parent, and the emotional environment surrounding the baby can all shape development.

Factors such as whether the pregnancy was welcomed, the level of safety and stress the birthing parent experienced, birth interventions (such as forceps), postpartum depression, separation, or times when a baby’s needs were not consistently met can influence how the nervous system learns to organize around safety, connection, and protection.

Because infants cannot think about or verbalize their experiences, these early influences are often stored as imprinted or implicit memories in the body and nervous system from the very beginning of life. These early imprints can continue to shape how a person feels, relates, and responds to stress and connection later in life.

Somatic developmental trauma coaching uses an 8-phase developmental repair process to help adults gently work with early nervous system patterns formed in the first years of life. This approach supports the body in processing experiences that were overwhelming or unsupported and helps build greater safety, regulation, resilience, and ease in relationships and daily life.

Somatic Parts Work helps you understand the different “parts” of yourself that developed to cope with life experiences. Some parts may feel protective, critical, anxious, or people-pleasing, while others may carry grief, fear, or unmet needs from earlier in life. These parts carry burdens for a reason but over time they can affect how you think, feel, and relate to yourself and others.

Somatic Parts Work helps you gently tune into body sensations along with your emotions and thoughts, so you can understand what each part is holding and what it needs.

Through this work, you can begin to soften self-criticism and shame, understand protective patterns, improve relationships with yourself and others, and reconnect with calm, clarity, and inner wisdom.

Polyvagal-Informed Coaching helps you understand and support your nervous system, which affects how safe, connected, or stressed you feel.

For people who have experienced trauma or chronic stress, the nervous system can stay on high alert even when the present feels safe. This can show up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shutdown, difficulty relaxing, or struggles with trust and connection.

This work focuses on noticing how your body reacts to stress and relationships and learning ways to support your nervous system in feeling safe and balanced.

The goal isn’t to remove protective responses, they helped you survive, but to help your nervous system become more flexible and resilient.

Over time, many people experience greater calm, curiosity, and connection with themselves and others.