The first few sessions are about getting a feel for each other and starting to build our relationship. During the first 2-3 sessions I’ll be asking a lot of intake or assessment questions and taking more notes. During our 4th session we’ll check in to see how things are feeling and whether we’d like to continue working together.

A session is about 50 minutes and will be a time for us to see what is most alive for you this week, as well as track bigger themes of our work through your week to week life. We may start with a grounding, moment of mindfulness, or body scan as a way to transition and start to bring awareness to your internal experience. I’ll suggest ideas I’m having of where we could go, and see what you would like to do or focus on.

Somatic Psychotherapy includes the body and the experience of the body and nervous system into our understanding of ourselves and our psyches. We assume that what ever happens in the mind has an effect on the body and vice versa. In a session I may ask you when you recognize an emotion, how you know it’s there, or what the corresponding sensations are, and we can use this as a jumping off point to explore when you’ve felt that before. We may bring attention to posture or gesture as a way to access the unconscious. We may even work with some movement, or explore different positions of the body. All of this happens with checking in and consent.

Somatic Psychotherapy can be especially useful for working with trauma and attachment wounds, as these show up very somatically in the body.

Every experience is different. At the minimum about 3-6 months is good for more short term support/goals. For deeper work therapy can last a year or more.

I am able to have sessions between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm Monday through Friday.