Somatic Therapy in Brea & Online Across CA + AZ
Helping release CHRONIc stress and trauma Stored in the body
You’ve spent a lot of time trying to feel better.
Maybe you’ve tried talk therapy, self-care, positive self-talk, or managing it all through logic and productivity. Maybe some of it helped… but your body still feels off.
Deep down, you know there’s more going on than your mind alone can reason through.
That’s where somatic therapy comes in.
Somatic therapy supports the parts of you that insight alone hasn’t reached, helping your nervous system build regulation, capacity, and ease from the inside out.
So you don’t just understand yourself better — you finally start to feel better.
More regulated.
More grounded.
More at home in your own skin.
What Is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing that works with the nervous system and the mind-body connection. It recognizes that stress and trauma don’t only leave an imprint on your mind, they also show up in the body as tension, overwhelm, numbness, or feeling disconnected from yourself.
Rather than relying on insight alone, somatic therapy helps you tune into your internal experience of sensations, your breath, posture, impulses, and the way your body responds to life.
Somatic therapy can help you:
• Increase access to rest, pleasure, and internal safety
• Build a more trusting and attuned relationship with your body
• Develop a deeper sense of connection and presence in your daily life
• Expand your stress resilience so you feel less overwhelmed
Somatic therapy doesn’t force change, it supports the internal conditions where change can happen naturally, when the body finally feels safe enough to soften and exhale.
Who Can Benefit From Somatic Therapy?
Anyone, generally. BuT I work with People who are chronically stressed, shut down, or high-functioning & ready for a different way of relating to their body and life.
If you recognize yourself in any of these experiences, somatic therapy might be a great fit:
Wired, Tense & Always “On”
Your body runs faster than your mind can settle, and rest doesn’t come easily even when you’re exhausted. You may feel braced, tense, busy in your head, and unable to turn “off,” no matter how much you try. Somatic therapy helps your nervous system slow down, unwind, and finally soften.
Shutdown, Numb, or Disconnected
You might feel “out-of-body,” flat inside, or like you’re moving through life on autopilot. When the body holds what the mind can’t, shutdown becomes protection. Somatic therapy gently reconnects you to sensation, emotion, and presence, so you can feel more alive, safe, and embodied.
High-Functioning, Struggling Internally
You appear put-together from the outside, but inside, you’re tired, stretched thin, and holding more than anyone sees. You may over-function, people-please, push through, or keep it together because you’ve had to. Somatic therapy offers a place to exhale, feel supported, and move from survival into something more sustainable and self-honoring.
My philosophy on somatic healing:
We don’t heal by overriding; we heal by listening — slowly, gently, and with support.
In my practice, I primarily use two somatic modalities:
Somatic Experiencing® (SE)
SE helps your body complete stress responses that were interrupted or never fully resolved, allowing your nervous system to shift out of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn and into a more steady, regulated state.
With gentle, paced awareness, SE can help you:
• Tune into your body’s signals with more clarity + confidence
• Soften survival responses that developed during overwhelming or traumatic experiences
• Release emotional tension physically stored in the body
• Feel more alive and deepen your emotional expression
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
NARM is a present-focused approach for developmental and complex trauma that explores how early experiences shape your sense of self and connection to others, and tracks for where how those patterns show up now.
With compassionate awareness, NARM can help you:
• Soften long-held adaptive survival strategies that perpetuate helplessness and stuckness
• Deepen connection to yourself, others, and your internal experience
• Increase tolerance for discomfort + uncertainty
• Feel more emotionally available and attuned
Why Somatic Therapy With Me?
I specialize in working with high-achieving adults, people-pleasers, caregivers, and those who’ve spent years in survival mode. I understand the pressure you carry — the part of you that pushes through, performs, shows up, and handles things even when you’re overwhelmed or exhausted. Therapy with me is built for the nervous system that doesn’t know how to slow down… yet.
My work integrates both Somatic Experiencing® (SE) and the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM) — two powerful body-oriented modalities that complement each other in unique ways. SE helps the body release stored survival energy; NARM helps you shift the patterns shaped by early relational experiences so you can meet yourself with more compassion, capacity, and choice.
This means we’re not only working with your symptoms, we’re working with the roots beneath them.
Where many approaches focus only on regulating the nervous system or talking through insight, my work brings together:
body-based attunement + nervous system repair
the relational and identity-level healing needed for long-term change
a space where you don’t have to perform, manage, or hold everything together
During our work together, I don’t push, force, or rush your process. We move at the pace that honors your nervous system’s capacity, sensing, noticing, and letting your body lead, because it already knows how to heal when it’s met with safety.
And over time, there’s more room to breathe. More room to be.
Ready to Feel More Connected and At Ease in Your Body?
If you’re curious about somatic therapy or want to explore whether this approach is right for you, I’d love to connect.
Schedule a free consultation with me to find out more about how Somatic Experiencing® (SE) and NARM can help you restore a sense of safety, balance, and connection in your life.
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