This is an invitation to build resiliency in your body. To stretch in and out of discomfort and struggle, bending back and forth from challenge to resource a little at a time.  This is capacity building work.

This is an invitation for all types of bodies and experiences to be welcomed in exactly where they are, and be in full choice about where they go, how they feel or don’t feel.  This is honoring that some bodies and social locations have been more harmed and have wise and deep reasons why the body might not be safe or easy terrain to travel.

This is an invitation to be curious, go slow, let your body and nervous system guide you toward the healing that is right sized for you.

This is an invitation to heal trauma locked in your body, awakening possibility for greater alignment of your unique gifts with what the world is asking of you.

This is an invitation to continue to come into wholeness, to your particular brilliance, celebrating your body as oracle.

A large part of what informs my work is the framework that oppression and supremacy culture are traumatic and this is the mix that many of us live and breathe daily.  In order to dismantle systems of domination and (re)create transformative, liberatory cultures, there needs to be a noticing and shifting of where empire lives in and harms bodies.

I have completed a 3 year training in Somatic Experiencing (SE), and am currently a SEP (somatic experiencing practitioner). I also took the Somatics, Trauma and Resilience training with Strozzi Institute and partook in a year long program of Somatic Abolitionism through Education for Racial Equity. I have been a Somatic practitioner since 2021.

I hold roles as guide and witness for you to notice what is in your body and nervous system, whether it is physiological pain, past harm, shame and/or intergenerational trauma and then allow your body lead for the healing that is necessary.

I have experience working with grief and loss, natural disasters, trans and queer bodies, gender affirming surgery support, sexual harm, and racialization of bodies.

During a session, we will attempt to slow things down and approach what’s happening in your body with curiosity, allowing for you to metabolize things that occurred in the past that didn’t get the chance to complete/release. We will gently notice places where stress and trauma responses are stuck in the body, appearing as patterns of fight/flight/freeze and learn skills to build more capacity to be with these sensations. We will encourage movement toward more body attunement that holds nervous system reorganization around resilience and joy.

I lean into and honor the lineages and workings of Prentis Hemphill, Resmaa Menakem, Terri Delaney, Danielle Murphy, Marie Michael, Diane Long, Staci Haines, Sage Hayes, Lael Keene, Jennifer-Lee Koble and Carlin Quinn.