Psychotherapist and Breath Work Facilitator
Somatic Therapy
Offering in-person therapy in Denver, CO. Virtual therapy available for those living in Colorado, DC, and Virginia.
Somatic Therapy
Is it a good fit for you?
Do you struggle with...?
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Setting boundaries
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Identifying and/or feeling your feelings
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Understanding your own needs
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Feeling safe in your body
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Feeling safe in your relationships
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Feeling tense or in pain most of the time
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Chronic illness, migraines, auto-immune conditions
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Feeling uncomfortable in your body
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Being vulnerable with others
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Asking for help
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Somatic therapy could be a great fit for you if you identify with one or more of the above.
What is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a body-centered approach to trauma and attachment healing that uses mindfulness, movement, and somatic awareness with emotional and cognitive processing. Rather than focusing only on thoughts or memories, it explores how trauma shows up in the body—through your posture, tension, impulses, or numbing—and gently supports the nervous system in completing stuck survival responses and building new patterns of regulation.
How Somatic Therapy Works
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Bring mindful awareness to bodily sensations, movements, and impulses.
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We track activation and settling in the nervous system.
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Use gentle movement, posture shifts, or breath to release stored survival energy.
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Integrate cognitive, emotional, and somatic experiences together for deeper healing.
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Build resources like grounding, containment, and self-regulation before processing trauma.
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Encourage new body-based experiences of safety, empowerment, and connection.
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Complete “unfinished” defensive or attachment responses in a safe, titrated way.
Why Somatic Therapy Works
Somatic therapy is essential for trauma and attachment healing because these wounds are stored not only in thoughts and emotions, but also in the body and nervous system. By working directly with sensations, movement, and physiological patterns, somatic therapy can help you access and heal experiences that talking alone can’t reach, allowing for deeper regulation, safety, and connection.
What does a somatic therapy session look like?
Each session may look different but here are some things you might hear from me or experience in a session:
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"Where do you feel that in the body?"
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A question that I know can stress a lot of my clients out. When beginning working with someone, many clients feel so overwhelmed by this question. Some may lie because they think I want a specific answer, some say they don't know, or others get so overwhelmed by it. This is normal! My intention is to build the language and awareness together so this question gets easier to understand and answer. The hope of this question is to begin understanding how your symptoms show up in your body and to begin to address these symptoms at the core and find a path to shift your experience so you can feel better!​
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Sometimes sessions may be more talking and relationship building, these sessions don't mean you aren't doing the work. They are essential for us to have the trust for when we process trauma or vulnerable feelings.
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Sometimes our sessions may be more body-focused. Some examples may look like:
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Exploring your somatic sense of boundaries. ​
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Finding an internal, somatic resource to help ground and support your nervous system.
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Processing a traumatic memory by removing the content and focusing on completing your defensive responses.
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Connecting to and processing internal beliefs to understand and change how they show up somatically.
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Connecting to the body to better understand and identify your emotions and needs.
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