“The body holds the story, and in attending to it, the story can change.” —Pat Ogden
I am trained in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, a somatic (body-based) approach to trauma therapy that works with the nervous system to support healing and regulation.
This approach recognizes that trauma is not only held in thoughts and memories, but also in the body. In addition to exploring your verbal story, we pay attention to sensations, movement, posture, and patterns that arise in the present moment—the ways your body has learned to respond and adapt over time.
By working with both the mind and body together, therapy can support more lasting and integrated change, rather than insight alone.
Many of the patterns that shape how we feel, relate, and respond to the world are formed early in life—often before we have words to describe them. These experiences can live in the nervous system as non-verbal, implicit memories.
Attending to these deeper layers allows for access to parts of the self that are not always reachable through talking alone, supporting shifts in regulation, connection, and sense of self.