For when your nervous system is tired of not being listened to.
You’ve read the books. You’ve journaled the feelings. You’ve probably even “released” that one thing twelve times.
And still — your body hums like it’s late for something.
Welcome. You’re in the right place.
Somatic healing isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong” with you.
It’s about learning the language of your body — the sighs, the tension, the weird shoulder twitch that shows up when you’re over it.
It’s about befriending your system, not bullying it into enlightenment.
It’s body-based therapy that helps your nervous system finally catch its breath.
We don’t analyze — we attune.
We notice what’s alive, what’s bracing, what’s longing to move, and we follow it with curiosity.
Somatic healing helps you:
Stop living like your body is a problem to solve.
Understand why you shut down, lash out, or freeze — and how to shift it.
Feel steady, clear, and actually present (without needing to sage your house every Tuesday).
Build the kind of safety that can hold both your chaos and your calm.
What Somatics Isn’t
It’s not talk therapy.
It’s not a spiritual makeover.
It’s not “let’s find the childhood wound and fix it today.”
No hacks. No forced breakthroughs.
No one’s crying on the floor unless your nervous system says it’s time (and even then, we’ll have tea after).
This is not about transcending your humanity — it’s about finally relaxing into it.
What Is Somatic Psychology?
In simple terms: it’s psychology that remembers you have a body and it is the keeper of all things.
Somatic psychology is the study of how your nervous system, emotions, and thoughts live in the body — and how they talk to each other (or sometimes yell).
Instead of treating the mind like the control center, it recognizes that your body is the original storyteller — every twitch, sigh, and gut feeling is data.
It’s based in neuroscience, attachment theory, and trauma research, but it’s also profoundly human. It’s the kind of work that says:
“You don’t need to think your way out of overwhelm — you need to feel your way back into safety.”
In somatic psychology, healing happens when your system starts to trust that it’s safe to relax, express, and connect again. That might look like trembling, breathing differently, or realizing halfway through a session that you’ve unclenched your jaw for the first time in a week.
We’re not trying to erase your history.
We’re helping your body update its story and integrate into a new knowing — so it stops reacting as if it’s still in danger when you’re just reading your emails.
Why the Body Remembers
Your body is a historian — but not the kind that writes in words.It records in muscle tone, posture, breath, and instinct.
Every time something overwhelms your system — the argument, the heartbreak, the moment you had to keep it together — your body quietly tucks the memory away for safekeeping.
Not because it wants to punish you, but because it’s trying to help.
That tight chest? That jaw that clicks every time someone raises their voice?
Those might be your body’s version of an unread journal entry— a message saying, “Hey, we never finished processing this.”
Somatic work doesn’t force those memories open.
It invites the body to realize it’s safe now — safe enough to breathe, to move, to thaw.
When that happens, your system naturally starts to complete the stress responses it couldn’t finish before. The shaking, sighing, or sudden tearfulness? That’s not regression. That’s release.
The body doesn’t forget; it waits for the right conditions to remember safely. Our work is about creating those conditions — so your system can finally exhale and come home.
The Science Behind It
Underneath all the poetry, there’s physiology.
Your nervous system is constantly scanning the world for one question:
“Am I safe?”
“Are you there for me?”
When the answer is no, your body flips into survival mode — fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. That response is automatic, ancient, and brilliant. It’s what keeps you alive.
The trouble is, the body sometimes forgets to stand down. Stress hormones stay high. Muscles stay braced. Your brain starts reading every text message like it’s a saber-toothed tiger.
Somatic psychology is rooted in an understanding of how the nervous system stores and releases stress.
When we experience threat or overwhelm, our autonomic nervous system activates one of several survival responses: fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. These states are regulated by different branches of the vagus nerve — the key communication line between the brain, heart, and gut.
In a healthy system, these states rise and fall as needed. You mobilize when you need to act, and then return to baseline once safety is restored.
But when experiences are too intense, too prolonged, or happen without adequate support, the nervous system can get stuck — either in chronic activation (anxiety, hypervigilance, irritability) or shutdown (numbness, fatigue, disconnection).
Somatic work helps the body complete these unfinished physiological responses. Through awareness of interoception (the ability to sense internal states) and proprioception (the awareness of movement and position), we can track how the body is signaling safety or threat in real time.
This awareness activates the ventral vagal system, the part of the parasympathetic branch associated with safety, connection, and social engagement.
When we increase regulation in the nervous system, the body begins to rebalance neurochemical activity — lowering cortisol and adrenaline, increasing oxytocin and serotonin, and improving communication between the limbic system (emotion), the prefrontal cortex (reasoning), and the body’s sensory feedback loops.
In short:
We’re re-establishing communication between the thinking brain, the emotional brain, and the body.
We’re training the nervous system to recognize safety again — not as a concept, but as a felt experience.
And we’re doing it in a way that’s measurable: heart rate variability, breath rhythm, and muscle tone all begin to bring cohesion.
This isn’t about mind over matter.
It’s about restoring the body’s natural capacity to regulate itself — so thinking, feeling, and acting begin to work together again based on presence and not history
Why Talk Alone Isn’t Enough
Don’t get me wrong — talking helps.
Naming a feeling can be the first exhale after years of holding your breath.
But talk alone stays in the cortex — the thinking brain. And trauma, stress, and overwhelm live deeper — in the limbic and somatic layers, where words don’t always reach.
You can understand your patterns for years and still find yourself reacting the same way, because your body hasn’t gotten the memo. Somatic work delivers that memo — gently, in a language your system actually understands.
It’s not about insight; it’s about integration.
The talking mind and the sensing body finally start working as a team.
That’s when change stops being something you think about and starts being something you feel.
Why My Approach Is Different
I bridge science and soul — trauma-informed somatic work meets the curiosity of neuroscience and the grounded magic of my Sámi folk lineage.
I don’t sell transcendence or awakening. I teach presence. I’m not the guru — I’m your witness and gps navigator on this joyride of being a human nervous system in a late-stage capitalist fever dream.
We’ll keep it real, grounded, and a little irreverent.