Services

Relational Somatic Therapy

Relational somatic therapy means body-based therapy. It includes talk therapy and also supports you to track your inner sensations, sensory experiences, and movement impulses. The latter allow access to younger parts of self that are challenging to access through words and to the wisdom of your body.

Relational somatic therapy also means a therapeutic connection on a body to body, heart to heart, felt sense between client and practitioner. I will help you get curious about what your resources are: what helps you feel safe enough in your body and what lights you up and helps you feel like yourself. This creates islands of safety in the midst of difficulty.

Relational somatic therapy paces sessions to include present-time awareness as a grounding anchor. Together we will move back and forth from what is difficult to more resources states so that the healing process integrates as we go along.

As the body moves seven times slower than the mind, I recommend sessions of 1.5 hours to allow for this slower unfurling.

I offer free 15 minute consultations so you can get a feel if this is right for you.

Current price, $130.00 per session (1.5 hours), $100.00 (1 hr)

Sessions offered: online, in person (Nakusp, BC)

Covered by Pacific Blue Cross, Greenshields, and some other insurance policies

Therapeutic Play

I have studied embodied therapeutic dance, theatre, and play practices since 2009 as ways to welcome and “play through” challenging emotions and foster meaningful and heartfelt connection.

These practices are another example of “bottom up” (starting with body and nervous system) approach. Drama is also a way to distance oneself enough from an overwhelming emotion or body sensation to then “play” with it in a real but not real context and allow the psyche to integrate it.

In these ways, as a practitioner I work with younger layers of trauma which are often not accessibly through cognitive processes but are effectively accessed through the body and nervous system.

Same price and coverage as above