How I work

This work is grounded, nervous-system-informed, and paced to what your body can actually integrate.

You don’t need to be fixed. You don’t need to push or force change.

What most people need is the right kind of support: safe, steady, and effective.

Through somatic work, we focus on building nervous system capacity so anxiety, fear, low energy, and intensity don’t run the show. Regulation is part of the process, but the aim is integration, confidence, and aliveness.

You already have the capacity for safety, connection, and ease, we’re simply creating the conditions for it to emerge. Using tools like Somatic Experiencing®, parts work, visualization, and nervous system regulation, we help you feel more grounded, resilient, and at home in your body. The work is gentle, but the shifts can be profound.

All sessions are held online, so you can work with me from the comfort of your own space, wherever you are.

THE ARC OF THE WORK

1.       Stabilize

We begin by supporting your nervous system to feel more settled and steady.

This may include grounding, orienting, breath, or resourcing practices. The goal isn’t to get rid of sensation or emotion, but to create enough internal safety that your system has somewhere to land.

With stability in place, you have more choice, clarity, and capacity.

Slow here isn’t a delay. It’s what allows change to last.

“Slow is smooth, and smooth is fast.”

2.       CONTAIN

From a more regulated place, we gently make space for what’s been hard to hold alone.

This might include emotions, sensations, or protective patterns such as anxiety, self-criticism, shutdown, or bracing. Using somatic awareness, parts work, visualization, and inquiry, we meet these experiences with curiosity and care.

The work unfolds at the pace your system can handle.

When experience is held with enough containment, intensity often softens on its own and begins to reorganize.

“Contained safely, intensity can unfurl into vitality and freedom.”

3.       Integrate

As shifts occur, we slow down and let them land.

Integration might look like pausing to notice sensation, naming what’s changed, or allowing time for the body to settle. This is where insight becomes something you can actually live, not just understand.

The pause matters.
It’s how change becomes embodied.

“The pause is where change becomes real.”

4.       Expand

From this grounded place, we explore how your growing capacity shows up in daily life.

This can include clearer boundaries, more confident decision-making, reconnecting with desire or motivation, or taking steps that once felt overwhelming.

As your system feels safer, qualities like clarity, flow, vitality, and self-trust begin to emerge naturally.

Expansion here is steady and sustainable, not dramatic, not forced.

“With roots deep, the branches can reach wide.”

My Mission

I’m here to help you access more peace, vitality, and connection not by pushing, but by creating space for your system to shift naturally. I believe in honoring your pace, your wisdom, and your nervous system’s intelligence.

Even on hard days, we can find small moments of calm, courage, and ease and those moments add up.

Work With Me

Somatic work may be for you if…

  • Feel stuck even though you’re self-aware.

  • Want to move beyond talking into body-based tools for real change.

  • Desire less overwhelm and more grounded energy.

  • Crave a shift from self-criticism to self-compassion.

  • Want consistency without burnout.

  • Are ready to feel more choice and power in daily life.

  • Seek a gentle, curious approach that honors your whole self.

  • Are in a stable place, ready to grow (this is deepening work, not crisis care).

  • Want support, not to do it all alone.

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WHat we can work on together

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Through somatic experiencing and gentle, body-based practices, we’ll focus on:

Nervous System Regulation: Building steadiness and flexibility so your system can meet stress, emotion, and change with more ease.

Emotional Capacity: Increasing your ability to hold both intensity and softness, without overwhelm or shutdown.

Self-Relating: Shifting from internal pressure or criticism toward steadier self-support and trust.

Survival Responses (Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn): Noticing habitual reactions and creating more choice in how you respond.

Desire and Agency: Clarifying what you want and taking aligned action from groundedness rather than fear.

Boundaries & Rhythms: Set and maintain boundaries. Creating structures in daily life that support your energy, relationships, and sustainability.

Somatic Practices: Simple, practical ways to come out of overthinking and stay connected to your body in everyday life.

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MY TRAINING

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FAQs

  • Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is the main modality I use in sessions. It involves guided somatic tracking, where we gently pay attention to your body’s sensations in a supported, intentional way. We also use tools to help regulate your nervous system and begin to separate the sense of threat from certain triggers like memories, sensations, or images.

    Over time, you’ll build the ability to stay present during uncomfortable or emotionally charged moments. Life often starts to feel more manageable because your system can move through challenges more smoothly and really take in the good when it happens.

  • Somatic coaching is a great fit if you're ready to explore your body’s sensations and emotions with curiosity and compassion. It’s for those who are willing to take responsibility for their own growth and are looking for sustainable, grounded ways to move towards their desires. If you're open to approaching challenges with acceptance and patience, somatic coaching can offer valuable tools for navigating life with greater ease and resilience.

  • Somatic coaching isn’t the right support for you if you are actively struggling with addiction, in the middle of a mental health crisis, recently left an abusive relationship within the last 12 months, or having trouble functioning in day to day life. In this case, we would want to find you a therapist that can give you the support you need. If you need help finding a competent trauma-trained therapist, I am happy to refer you.

  • No. Coaching and therapy are two different types of professional support for personal growth and development.

    Therapy typically focuses on helping individuals heal from past traumas, unresolved emotional issues, and psychological conditions such as anxiety and depression. A therapist may also act in a coaching capacity and help their client work towards specific goals. Some therapists are trained to diagnose and treat mental health disorders and uses various therapeutic techniques to help clients gain insight into their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

    Coaching, on the other hand, is specifically geared towards helping individuals achieve specific personal goals. Coaches work with clients to identify areas of their lives where they want to improve and helps them develop strategies, tools, and skills to achieve their goals. Coaching does not involve diagnosing or treating mental health disorders.

    Coaching and therapy can complement each other. It's essential to choose the type of support that is best suited to your needs and goals.

  • Somatic means that we are relating to the body, rather than the mind. What that actually looks like is a lot of pausing and slowing down our sessions to be with the body and identify our felt sensations and reactions to whatever material or story we are working with and using the body as a guide and resource. For example, if we are working towards a goal that brings up a lot of charge and emotion, we slow down and tend to our capacity to be with those sensations so we are nurturing and building our capacity rather than overriding it.

  • Each 50 minute virtual session costs $150.00 CAD.