integrative somatic therapy

a note from me
Welcome Friend ⎯ I'm so glad you found me here in my humble corner of the internet, and am delighted to be connecting with you across space and time. What I hope to offer is a place for you to explore your personal growth, healing, and embodied learning in a container that feels safe enough to touch the edges of your unknown. To relate to your pain with compassion, to hold greater acceptance, and to witness the blooming of a true-er self that emerges when conditions are right. I’ve been dancing with this work my whole life — I did not come to it unexpectedly or through making a sharp pivot on my life path — I’ve been on this path since I was young. I believe I came into this world inclined to work with the body, not because it comes naturally to me, but because it was absolutely imperative for my personal healing.
Growing up as a competitive gymnast, dancer, and female-bodied human imprinted complicated beliefs within me about my sense of worth as it relates to how I perform myself in the world. I learned that my body was a place of production. I learned how to push past my pain for the sake of performance, or goals that were never truly mine. I believed I needed to be thin in order to be seen as beautiful, and beautiful in order to be seen as valued. I believed I needed to follow the rules in order to be loved. Though the world demanded that I showed up with confidence, ambition, and focus, I battled with my internal feelings of smallness, unworthiness, guilt, and self loathing.
This is one thread of the way I’ve been cultured. We all have, in some way, been shaped by the environments that raised us. You and I don’t need to have the same story in order to understand that our bodies hold the wounds of our past, and the wounds of our world. I believe our common humanity lies in our sentience; we all feel, we are all vulnerable to the world, and underneath it all we seek wholeness, love, and belonging.
My life’s work is primarily centered around the question : what is the experience of being alive in this human form? I study the many facets of Self, and I am curious about this body vessel — how it translates and transmutes our lived experiences; how our soma (or living body) has ways of knowing beyond itself; how our sensory experience shapes our perceptions and therefore is the center through which we interpret and relate to the world. I am interested in the ways we can expand our view of the body as beginning and ending with our own isolated form ⎯ but rather, awaken our connection to the collective body and understand that we are a small part of a larger system of a larger body that is all of us.
I see my work as being a meeting place for creative-healing practices that invite both a returning home to our wholeness and an expedition of new inner terrain. I offer one-on-one somatic sessions, in-person classes / workshops, and a variety of virtual experiential resources. Below you will find more information about my training and scope of practice. If anything sparks your spirit, please do not be a stranger and reach out to inquire further or say hello. Thank you for being here, and thank you for being you ♥︎
training + scope of practice
Registered Somatic Movement Educator/Therapist (RSME/T)
International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association
Master of Arts
Dance and Somatic Well-being: Connections to the Living Body
University of Central Lancashire
Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200)
Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health
Yoga Alliance
Bachelor of Arts
Psychology and Dance
Ithaca College
Continuing Education + Experience :
Somatic Parts Work
Taught by Fran Booth with The Embody Lab
Foundations of Jungian Certificate Program
C.G. Jung Institute of New England
Research Assistant for Professor Lindsay Gilmour
Tibetan Ritual Dance, various locations in Northern India
10+ years of professional dance training, performance and pedagogy
I follow the Scope of Practice guidelines as administered by ISMETA (International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association).
The methods I employ in my somatic work help individuals in some way to:
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refine and expand awareness of body and self
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tap into the subconscious mind
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learn ways to express and articulate one’s emotional and physical experience
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manage psycho-emotional stress through nervous system regulation techniques
I am not a licensed therapist. I do not provide psychological evaluations and would advise a mental health provider to an individual seeking this kind of support.