THERAPY ONLINE & IN-PERSON IN COLORADOSomatic Trauma Therapy
Rediscover Safety through the Wisdom of your Body
You’ve done the work.
You’ve talked it through, made sense of it, done your best to let it go.
But your body still flinches at sudden sounds.
You still freeze when you want to speak up.
You still feel numb when you need connection most.
You're ready to break free from the past and finally feel safe in your body again.
This is where Somatic Trauma Therapy comes in.
What Is Somatic Therapy?
Somatic therapy is a body-based approach to healing trauma. Instead of only talking about what happened, we slow down and notice how your body holds those experiences—through tension, posture, breath, and sensation.
Your nervous system is designed to protect you. When you’ve lived through overwhelming events, that protection can get stuck in overdrive. Somatic therapy helps your body complete what it couldn’t before—shaking off survival energy, finding calm, and relearning safety at a cellular level.
While it may be mysterious to your mind, your body knows what it needs to heal….
The key is learning how to listen
Somatic therapy goes deeper than traditional talk therapy to explore how past experiences and traumas are stored in your body. By bringing attention to these bodily sensations and allowing them to metabolize, somatic therapy offers a pathway to deep healing and self-discovery.
You don’t have to relive your trauma to heal it.
You just need a safe space to feel what your body already knows—and to let it finally exhale.
How Somatic Therapy Helps
Through gentle awareness and grounding, somatic therapy supports you in:
Reconnecting with your body after trauma or dissociation
Reduce anxiety and hypervigilance by calming the nervous system
Releasing chronic tension, anxiety, and freeze patterns
Feeling more present, alive, and capable of connection
Building trust in your inner cues and boundaries
Many clients describe it as finally being able to “come home” to themselves. Over time, you’ll find that your body can handle more sensation, more aliveness, and more ease.
A cutting-edge trauma therapy
As the field of trauma therapy has developed, the most effective and cutting-edge techniques have all emphasized the importance of a somatic approach. Leaders in the field, like Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, Janina Fisher and Pat Ogden, have all developed complimentary trauma treatments which rely heavily on integrating the mind-body connection.
When You Work With Me, You Get...
A therapist with years of specialized training in somatic modalities.
A gentle, relational approach rooted in presence—not pressure.
A trauma-informed process that meets you where you are.
Someone who’s done the work, too.
And a space that’s fully inclusive—kink-aware, poly-friendly, and LGBTQ+ affirming.
Ready to Begin?
Somatic therapy is for anyone who wants to feel grounded, safe, and whole again.
Whether you’re recovering from trauma, navigating chronic stress, or seeking deeper connection, this work meets you exactly where you are.
Schedule a free consultation to explore if somatic trauma therapy feels like the right fit. Together, we’ll help your body remember what safety feels like.
Frequently asked Questions…
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Sessions move at the pace of your nervous system. We’ll start with grounding and containment exercises designed to help you find safety in your body and avoid overwhelm. Once you have several skills for nervous system regulation, we can move to slowly metabolizing somatic sensations with more content. As your skills develop and the felt safety of our relationship deepens, we can address more challenging content while maintaining regulation in your nervous system. You stay in control at all times—this isn’t about re-experiencing trauma, but creating safety with what’s here now.
To learn more about some of the skills we will develop, you can read my blog post on Healing from the Bottom-Up.
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Traditional talk therapy centers on thoughts and stories. Somatic trauma therapy brings the body into the conversation. Instead of only exploring why you feel anxious or shut down, we notice where those feelings live in the body—tightness in the chest, a pit in the stomach, or numbness. By working directly with your nervous system, somatic therapy helps integrate mind and body so healing happens on a physical and emotional level. Many people find this body-based approach leads to deeper, longer-lasting change.
For more on the contrast between somatic therapy and more cognitive modalities, check out my blog post on Somatic Therapy vs. CBT.
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Yes. Somatic trauma therapy is highly effective for PTSD, anxiety, and chronic stress. By addressing the physiological roots of trauma—rather than just the thoughts about it—it helps calm hyperarousal, reduce flashbacks, and resolve the body’s freeze or collapse responses. Because somatic therapy does not require describing traumatic events, it can address trauma without causing overwhelm or re-traumatization. Over time, clients experience improved sleep, emotional regulation, and a stronger sense of safety in their daily lives.
To learn more about how Somatic Therapy can help address trauma, check out my blog post on 7 Steps to Healing Trauma.
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Absolutely. Complex trauma (cPTSD) often develops in the context of early or ongoing attachment wounding—when safety, consistency, or emotional attunement were missing in key relationships. Somatic trauma therapy helps repair those patterns by combining gentle body awareness with a safe, attuned therapeutic relationship.
A central part of this work is building a strong therapeutic alliance—a relationship grounded in trust, pacing, and presence. As that safety grows, your nervous system learns that connection can feel secure rather than threatening. From there, we work with the body to release protective patterns of hypervigilance, collapse, or emotional shutdown that formed in response to past relational harm.
Over time, somatic therapy supports deep attachment repair—not only helping you process trauma, but also expanding your capacity for closeness, regulation, and self-trust in the present.
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Yes. I offer somatic trauma therapy online for clients throughout Colorado and in-person in Boulder. Virtual sessions use the same trauma-informed, body-based approach—adjusted for your space and comfort. Online therapy allows you to engage in healing work from the safety of your home while still receiving real-time support and connection.
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That’s completely normal, especially after trauma or due to over-intellectualization. Somatic therapy helps you reconnect with your body gently and safely. We start small—by noticing neutral sensations like your feet on the ground or the movement of your breath. I am trained in helping those who cannot connect to their feelings or sensations build this capacity slowly. Over time, your nervous system learns that it’s safe to feel again. You don’t have to force anything; the process unfolds naturally, at your own pace.
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Healing looks different for everyone, but most clients notice subtle changes—like better sleep, reduced anxiety, or more emotional awareness—within a few sessions. Sustainable trauma recovery usually develops over many months of consistent work, as the body learns new patterns of regulation and safety. When it comes to trauma work, rushing and retraumatizing yourself creates many more problems than taking your time. The focus is not on speed, but on building a steady foundation for long-term change.
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Somatic therapy is a good fit if you feel disconnected from your body, stuck in talk therapy, or overwhelmed by stress. It’s especially effective for trauma survivors, highly sensitive people, and anyone seeking a more embodied, holistic approach to mental health. If you’re in Colorado and want to heal from the inside out, somatic trauma therapy can help you feel more grounded, alive, and at home in yourself.
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Yes. I specialize in working with members of the kink, poly, and queer communities. I believe healing happens when you can bring your full self into the room—without judgment or the need to explain who you are. Whether you’re exploring identity, relationships, or trauma recovery, this is a space where you are welcome exactly as you are.
