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Somatic Modalities & Foundations
Somatic Experiencing
I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP). Somatic Experiencing (SE™) is a three-year professional training program using a body-oriented model for supporting the nervous system through chronic stress and overwhelm, developed by Peter Levine. The SE approach helps restore ease to a system carrying stored survival stress, offering a framework to understand where a body feels caught in sympathetic activation or freeze/immobilization. Rather than working solely through thought, SE provides gentle, "body first" clinical tools to support the natural completion of self-protective responses and encourage fluid, adaptive nervous system states.
Overwhelm can stem from single acute events or the slow accumulation of daily life stress, both of which can impact our capacity for resilience. By working gently with the body’s innate signals, SE helps restore balance and expand your natural capacity for ease.
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Somatic Practice & Touch Skills
Touch Skills Training for Trauma Therapists (TST): Developed by Kathy Kain, this 96-hour advanced training focuses on incorporating relational touch, somatic awareness, and tactile support directly into therapeutic practice. TST offers structured methods to support deep somatic repatterning, ease tension in body tissues, and foster a grounded sense of physical safety.
Making Friends With the Brain (MFB): Grounded in neuroanatomy and somatic practice, this training explores how to encourage a kinder, non-demanding relationship with our brain function and physiology—learning to cooperate with our nervous system rather than fight it.
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Transforming the Experience Based Brain
Created by Stephen Terrell, Transforming the Experience-Based Brain (TEB) focuses on early developmental and attachment regulation. When early life lacks consistent co-regulation, our foundational nervous system patterns carry that burden into adulthood. TEB uses a framework of presence, regulation, and safety to support these deep developmental layers.
Transforming Touch® & Transforming Presence: These specialized protocols facilitate co-regulation within the nervous system, whether through intentional, supportive physical touch or co-regulatory presence. By providing a secure, low-demand environment, TEB allows early physiology to settle and adapt without forcing change.
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Mindfulness, Compassion & Relational Integration
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB): Based on the work of Dan Siegel, this framework explores how our brain and nervous system continuously adapt through relationships, self-compassion, and neuroplasticity.
Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC): Developed by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer, MSC combines mindfulness with gentle self-kindness. Mindfulness allows us to turn toward difficult experiences with curiosity, while self-compassion offers the internal comfort needed to navigate them.
Relational & Experiential Modalities: My practice is deeply rooted in person-centered care, compassion-based parts work (inviting an open, supportive dialogue between different aspects of self), and over 20 years of personal meditation practice. Additional foundational training includes person-centered psychotherapy and Historical Trauma approaches.
Please feel free to reach out with any questions regarding my clinical training or background.
Connecting Together
Reach out whenever you feel ready. We can explore how this work might support your system.
