Somatic touch

Somatic Touch is a body-based modality that supports the nervous system through gentle therapeutic contact, stillness, and attuned presence. While talk therapy can help to understand patterns, the body often holds what words cannot fully reach. This is particularly true of early non-verbal trauma and attachment injuries and deficits. Stress, grief, chronic tension, emotional overwhelm, and past experiences can appear as bracing, numbness, fatigue, pain, or a sense of not being fully present. Somatic touch works to unwind these patterns using nervous system co-regulation and slow, sensitive and receptive touch. Over time, the nervous system internalizes a sense of safety and learns how to return to deeply restorative and highly-connected states by itself. This is known as self-regulation.

Therapy with me

My sessions are slow, collaborative, and deeply individualized. I integrate therapeutic touch, craniosacral therapy, fascia and lymphatic support, and subtle listening and tracking of your body. The intention is not to push through resistance, but to create enough safety for the body to soften, unwind, and release what it has been holding. This is very different to regular massage where the practitioner is often working through a set protocol. I listen to you body and allow it to guide my interventions.

Clients describe the work as grounding, restorative, subtle, and quietly profound. They describe feeling deeply cared for, nurtured, and soothed and often leave feeling lighter, more at peace, and more connected. Many say they have not experienced this level of attuned touch before.

This work supports highly sensitive nervous systems particularly well. As a highly sensitive person myself, I pay close attention to body cues and I am careful not to trigger symptoms or produce overwhelm. Highly sensitive people can benefit greatly when they are properly met by another sensitive nervous system. There can be a deep attachment repair in cases where a client had insensitive, reactive, or shut-down parents who could not support their sensitivity.

My background

My path into bodywork began through my own journey through pain, sensitivity, embodiment, and healing. For much of my life, I lived very much in the mind, intellectualized and disconnected from my body. A period of personal difficulty led me into a more embodied way of living. I began exploring the nervous system, breathwork, dance, acting, somatic healing, and the power of safe, attuned touch. Through that process, I came to understand the body as a place where shame, emotion, memory, and aliveness can be met with care. My intention in my work is to create a similar space for others, where the body can soften, regulate, and begin to feel safe again.

“Rather than treating the body as a problem to fix, I approach it as intelligent, responsive, and capable of returning to greater coherence when met with patience and care.”