Guided somatic practice
Somatic sessions for stress, chronic pain, and trauma
One-to-one work with your nervous system. Sixty minutes at a time, online, at whatever pace turns out to be yours.
- Accepting new clients
- 60-minute sessions
- Online across the US
The approach
Why this work is slow
Feeling safe is not a decision you can make. Your nervous system decides it for you, slowly, based on what it keeps noticing. You cannot argue your way into it and you cannot do it on schedule. What you can do is give it enough unhurried attention that it has something new to go on.
That is most of what a session is. We turn attention toward what is actually happening in your body, the held breath or the guarded shoulder or the ache you have stopped noticing, and stay with it a little longer than usual without asking it to change.
Who I work with
What people come to me for
Most people arrive with one of these and find they are working across two or three of them by the end.
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Chronic pain
Pain that has outlasted the injury, or never had one to begin with. Back, neck, nerve, jaw, migraine, the kind that scans keep coming back clean on.
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Anxiety and stress
The physical end of it. A chest that will not loosen, a jaw that will not unclench, sleep that will not come, the sense of being braced with nothing to brace against.
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Trauma
What stayed in the body after the event. Startling easily, going numb, losing track of yourself under pressure, or feeling far from people you are close to.
What to expect
How a session goes
Sessions are sixty minutes on a video call. Most people meet weekly at first and stretch it out later. There is no minimum commitment and nothing you need to be ready for.
Book a free consult- 01
A free consult
Twenty minutes, by video or phone, whichever suits you. You say what brought you here, I say how I work and what I do not do, and we both decide whether it fits.
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The first session
Mostly orienting and grounding. We find out what your attention does when it turns inward, and how far it is comfortable going. Slower than most people expect.
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The work
Sixty minutes at a time. We follow sensation, work with whatever shows up, and stop when stopping is the right call. You can open your eyes at any point.
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Between sessions
Usually one small thing to try, often a recording from the channel so the voice is already familiar. It is not homework and you do not report back on it.
Try it first
Thirty recordings, free, no account
The fastest way to find out whether this suits you is to lie down and try one. Same voice, same pace, same approach as a session, without me there responding to what happens. If a recording works for you, a session will.
Listen on YouTube
Where
Somewhere you already feel settled
Sessions happen over video. Most people prefer their own home: a familiar room, their own floor, and no commute afterwards while still half inside the work.
I am in Brooklyn. I do not keep a studio, but if meeting in person would suit you better we can find somewhere that works.