MY APPROACH

Mindfulness-Based Somatic Therapy is a holistic approach that combines traditional mindfulness practice with guided self-inquiry and body-based awareness to foster healing, integration, and personal growth. It’s more than just talking about your struggles—it’s about slowing down, tuning into the body, and allowing your experience to unfold in the present moment with the witnessing and support of another person.

WHAT MAKES THIS APPROACH DIFFERENT?

Mindfulness-Based Somatic Therapy goes beyond traditional talk therapy by engaging not just your thoughts, narratives, and emotions, but also your body, nervous system, and present-moment experience. Many people come to therapy feeling stuck in repeating patterns—intellectually understanding their struggles but unable to create lasting change. This approach helps shift that by working beneath the level of words, engaging the body’s innate wisdom to process emotions, release tension, and integrate past experiences in a more embodied way.

By bringing mindful awareness to how your emotions show up in the body, how your nervous system responds to stress, and how past experiences shape your present reality, this approach helps you develop greater self-trust, resilience, and integration. The therapeutic relationship itself is also a key part of the healing process—providing a space of attunement, co-regulation, and relational safety that supports deep transformation. Over time, you may find yourself not just talking about change, but actually experiencing it—in how you relate to yourself, others, and the world around you.

FOUNDATIONS OF THE WORK

  • Mindfulness allows us to explore what’s happening right now rather than just analyzing the past or anticipating the future. It helps us slow down, listen, and meet our experience with curiosity and kindness.

  • Our bodies hold stress, trauma, and emotional patterns that words alone cannot always access. Through somatic awareness, we gently explore sensations, tension, and breath as doorways into deeper understanding and healing.

  • Many struggles—like anxiety, overwhelm, or disconnection—are rooted in the nervous system’s adaptive survival responses. Therapy helps you develop greater flexibility and choice in how you respond to emotions and stress.

  • Early relationships shape our nervous systems and attachment patterns. Therapy provides an opportunity to experience a different kind of relationship—one that is attuned, present, and safe—so that new ways of relating to yourself and others can emerge.

WHO IS THIS WORK FOR?

You may be drawn to this work if you:

  • Struggle with anxiety, self-criticism, or feeling disconnected from yourself

  • Find yourself caught in relationship patterns that feel stuck or painful

  • Experience stress or tension in your body that seems tied to emotional pain

  • Sense that past experiences are still shaping your present in ways you don’t fully understand

  • Want a therapy approach that is embodied, relational, and deeply attuned to your experience

This work can be particularly helpful for those navigating developmental trauma and attachment wounds. If you grew up in an environment that felt unpredictable, abusive, emotionally distant, or overwhelming, your nervous system may still be carrying those imprints.

Therapy provides a space to unwind old survival patterns and create new possibilities for connection, safety, and trust.

WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT?

Healing is not about getting rid of difficult experiences but about developing the capacity to be with them in a new way. Through this work, you may find that:

  • You feel more at home in your body and emotions

  • You are able to respond rather than react to stress and triggers

  • Your relationships feel more authentic, secure, and connected

  • You have greater self-trust, clarity, and resilience

THE GOAL OF INTEGRATION

Integration is at the heart of this work. It’s the process of bringing together the different parts of yourself—mind, body, emotions, and lived experiences—into a cohesive and balanced whole. Many of us have learned to compartmentalize pain, suppress emotions, or disconnect from our bodies and other people as a way of coping. While these strategies may have once been necessary for survival, they can keep us stuck in patterns of anxiety, avoidance, or self-doubt. Therapy supports integration by helping you reconnect with your experience in a way that feels safe, grounded, and compassionate. Rather than working against yourself, you begin to experience wholeness, coherence, and a deeper trust in your inner wisdom.

KEY INFLUENCES

This work is informed by multiple traditions and frameworks, including:

  • Mindfulness & Buddhist Psychology – Honoring the ancient roots of mindfulness as a path to awareness, understanding, and compassion.

  • Somatic Therapy – Understanding how the body holds and processes emotion, trauma, and memory.

  • Attachment Theory & Interpersonal Neurobiology – Exploring how early relationships shape the nervous system and influence our ability to connect with ourselves and others.

  • Polyvagal Theory & Nervous System Regulation – Developing tools and resources to foster a greater sense of safety, flexibility, and emotional resilience.

  • Parts Work & Inner Relational Healing – Engaging with different aspects of the self with curiosity and care.

  • Transpersonal Psychology & Ecotherapy – Integrating spirituality, nature, and interconnectedness as pathways to healing, integration, and growth.

GETTING STARTED

Therapy is a deeply personal journey, and finding the right fit is important. If this approach resonates with you, I invite you to reach out for a consultation. I’d love to connect and explore how we might work together in a way that feels supportive and aligned with your needs.