MY APPROACH

Mindfulness-Based Somatic Therapy is a holistic approach that blends mindfulness-based inquiry with somatic, transpersonal, trauma-sensitive, and harm reduction orientations to help clients connect more deeply with themselves and move toward healing, integration, and personal growth. It’s more than just talking about your struggles. This practice is designed to help you observe your thoughts, feelings, and body sensations with openness and curiosity, increasing your capacity to stay present with discomfort and understand the unconscious patterns that shape behavior.

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 and resilience. 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

  • A contemplative approach rooted in Buddhist Psychology and the ancient tradition of mindfulness as a path to awareness, understanding, and compassion. This practice involves gently turning toward your present-moment experience with curiosity and non-judgment—allowing sensations, thoughts, emotions, and insights to arise and unfold in their own time. Mindfulness-based inquiry supports deep inner listening and a growing trust in your own innate capacity for clarity and healing.

  • Studying the body’s sensations, movements, and patterns as a source of wisdom and healing. When combined with mindfulness, this approach helps clients tune into the wisdom of their bodies and release tension, emotions, and energies that may be holding them back.

  • Early relationships shape our nervous systems and attachment patterns, influencing how we relate to ourselves and others. These patterns aren’t just psychological—they’re encoded in the body and brain through repeated experiences and adaptive survival responses developed to protect us. In therapy, the safety and attunement of the relational field can provide a supportive context to revisit old emotional memories and update them with new information. Over time, this allows outdated patterns to shift and makes space for new ways of connecting with yourself and others to emerge.

  • Engaging with different aspects of the self with curiosity and care. This approach recognizes that we are made up of many inner parts—each with its own emotions, needs, and history—and that healing happens not by forcing change, but by building compassionate relationships within. By creating space for these parts to be seen, heard, and understood, we foster greater internal harmony and a more integrated sense of self.

  • Addresses the spiritual and ecological dimensions of the human experience, exploring how a sense of connection to something larger than ourselves—whether that be nature, spirituality, or a feeling of universal oneness—can provide meaning, healing, and transformation. This approach integrates spiritual insight, non-ordinary states of consciousness, and peak experiences, honoring both the material and transcendent aspects of healing.

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.

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.