Shadow work is learning to turn toward the repressed, rejected aspects of ourselves—the "others”. Together, we consciously explore and retrieve the traumatized and rejected parts. As we welcome them home, they become allies in our evolving transformation.

Soma is our embodied experience—the living body as energy body and seat of the soul. It includes our sensations, how we orient in space and time, and it's the portal connecting us to one another, to the web of life, and to Source.

Somatic coaching works with the wisdom of the body and the obsessive/thinking mind. Rather than focusing primarily on thoughts and analysis, we include bodily sensations, breath, movement, sound, images, and autonomic responses as sources of information and healing. This approach recognizes that patterns are stored in the body, and lasting transformation happens through embodied experience rather than mental understanding alone.

This is coaching, not licensed therapy. I work with the body and archetypes to support transformation and wholeness. If you're currently in therapy, this work can complement it beautifully.

This work is trauma-informed. We honor your capacity and your protective responses. They aren't obstacles—they're guides showing us what needs attention. We trust your system's wisdom about what's ready to emerge and when.

Archetypes are universal patterns of human experience that we all carry—like the Caregiver, the Rebel, or the Critic. In our work, we explore both your personal archetypal patterns and broader universal ones. Sometimes we get stuck identifying with one pattern or completely reject others. Archetypal work helps you develop a conscious relationship with these different energies within and around you, and includes working with symbols, images, or metaphors that arise naturally in your process.

Each session follows what your body-mind is ready to explore. Sometimes we track sensations as you speak about what's alive for you. Sometimes we work with movement, breath, or the images and symbols that arise. Sometimes we meet the parts of you that are activated—the anxious one, the defended one—and learn what they're protecting.

I'm not here with an agenda or a formula. My role is to attune to how you're showing up in each moment, to hold space for whatever's present—including and especially your protective responses. We move at the pace your system can handle.

Sessions can address something acute that's showing up right now, or support longer-term patterns and transformation. Your body's wisdom and timing guide the work.

Talk therapy primarily works with thoughts, patterns, and understanding through conversation. That has value—I did years of it myself. But insight alone doesn't always create lasting change.

Our thoughts reflect the state of our system. If we want to shift our thoughts, we must tend to the body first. Somatic work includes the body as a source of information and transformation. We're working with sensation, breath, movement—because your patterns live in your body, not just your mind. The car idling in the driveway, one foot on the gas and one on the brakes? That's not a thinking problem. It's an embodied pattern that needs embodied attention.

We might talk, yes. But we're also tracking what's happening in you as we talk. Where do you feel that? What shifts when you say that out loud? What wants to move?