becoming safely embodied:
co-regulating touch for early trauma
Explore a path to becoming safely embodied…
If you carry a persistent, underlying sense of "I'm not safe," your nervous system may be holding the wisdom of early experiences that taught you to scan for danger rather than rest in safety. Our capacity to navigate life's stresses and challenges is deeply influenced by our earliest experiences — in utero, through birth, and during those tender first years of life. We are also touched by the unresolved traumas and burdens carried in our ancestral and cultural lineages.
These early experiences can shape how our bodies, minds, and spirits orient toward safety and danger. When past events have been overwhelming, our nervous systems develop exquisitely protective strategies — perhaps chronic vigilance to keep us alert to threat, or the wisdom of shutting down when the world feels too much. These adaptations served you then, and we can honor them while also exploring what new possibilities might emerge when your body feels truly held.
Specialized somatic support for developmental trauma
My practice is particularly attuned to the ways early relational wounding lives in the body and shapes our capacity for safety, connection, and co-regulation. Through trauma-informed touch and somatic parts work, we create sanctuary where these earliest protective strategies can be witnessed with reverence as we explore new pathways to embodied resilience.
Your body may be communicating its need for deeper safety through physical sensations like a pounding heart, muscle tension, lightheadedness, digestive changes, chest tightness, fatigue, or the sense of moving through a heavy veil. Emotional messages might include feeling disconnected from yourself or others, diminished joy, racing thoughts, or limited access to your natural curiosity and creativity. These are not symptoms to fix, but invitations from your nervous system to explore what it needs to feel truly resourced.
How integrative somatic sessions can support your nervous system
Co-regulating touch work offers a bottom-up pathway to embodied safety — as your nervous system discovers new depths of regulation and resilience through attuned presence, this often creates a gentle ripple effect supporting cognitive, social, and behavioral well-being. This approach can serve as its own complete healing journey or beautifully complement talk therapy, offering what words alone sometimes cannot reach.
My practice integrates wisdom from polyvagal and attachment theories with craniosacral therapy, Aline LaPierre's NeuroAffective Touch, and Kathy Kain's Somatic Resilience and Regulation for Early Trauma. Through this collaborative dance between your nervous system's moment-to-moment guidance and my attuned presence, we create sanctuary where your body can safely explore what it means to be held. This work is not psychotherapy and serves alongside rather than replacing care with licensed mental health professionals.
“Through our work together, I have a deeper understanding of how my physical symptoms and emotions are symbiotically connected. I have been supported to make lifestyle and behavioral changes that had been affecting my symptoms.
This work feels like a deep, slow waking up of the parts of myself that have had to be contracted in order to survive. This kind of softening and movement has helped me manage my stress, anxiety, insomnia and consistent fatigue. ”
Curious if integrative somatic work could help you?
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Banner photo by Miriam León.