What is somatic healing?

Somatic healing is a body-centered therapeutic approach that works with the nervous system to help you release stored trauma, tension, and emotional patterns. You can’t think your way out of patterning that is stored in the body. This is why so many sensitive people struggle to recover with talk therapy alone.

Rather than spend the rest of your life just trying harder, somatic therapies can help your body shift out of survival mode and re-establish a sense of safety and relational ease. Guided support to feel into muscle tension patterning and emotional experience in the body reconnects you to innately healing energies, releasing you from the grip of survival and trauma.

What is Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy ?

Biodynamic Craniosacral therapy (BCST) is a gentle hands-on technique that supports subtle movement and rhythm within the craniosacral system (the membranes and fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord). The biodynamic method is different— the goal is not to adjust the body, but utilizing hand hand placements and techniques that allow your body to self-correct, ease tension, calm the nervous system, and release deep trauma.

Because it’s so gentle, it’s especially suited for people who feel easily overstimulated and haven’t resolved symptoms with other modalities. It is rare in this world to receive truly attuned touch. Reconnecting with our bodies is key to unwinding past trauma, overcoming injury and feeling more connected in fulfilling relationships.

I’ve done so much work. Why should I try somatic therapies ?

I asked myself the same question-I get it. You’ve worked so hard. Years of talk therapy, inner child work, maybe even psychedelics — and yet it feels hard to exist. New symptoms and old symptoms feel overwhelming. You might feel disconnected from your body and others, emotionally overwhelmed and still triggered by “emotional flashbacks” such as intense anxiety or spacing out when you really hoped you wouldn’t.

These are physical pathways and real - they exist in how your nervous system communicates with your body. We simply cannot mentally override survival patterning no matter how hard we work at it. Somatic therapies can help your body rewire through physical means. Neuromuscular release, relearning reflexes, discovering movement patterns that free you up from old emotions. You have probably healed a hundred times over - maybe your body just needs catching up.

What does working with you look like?

I aim to create an experience where you feel deeply seen, heard and welcome to allow a deeper healing process to unfold. Somatic coaching sessions are virtual but craniosacral sessions are held in a calm setting and fully clothed, using a massage table.

In a typical somatic coaching session, we’ll begin by checking in with how you are now — and exploring themes in your life from the perspective of the body. We might observe tension patterns, sensations and utilize parts work, eft and movement to gently retrain your nervous system to reorient to safety. Every session is different and may include at-home practices (ie. using specific tools and movements to shift a freeze response, or redirect sympathetic stress through helpful exercises).

Craniosacral is primarily a form of bodywork and feels at times like a gentle massage or profound energy healing. We start with establishing your preferences and needs. It can be emotional to feel safe enough to ask for what you need. Otherwise, all you have to do is relax on the table and receive hands-on support. You may feel muscle tension patterning unwind and emotional release. Hand positions are used to directly palpate (very gently) and feel fluid, bones, tissues and nerves while your body discovers its own pace and natural unwinding of musculoskeletal and trauma patterns.

How often should I come? How much does it cost?

I’ve noticed the clients who commit to regular sessions over a period of 3-5 months are also the clients who tend to feel calmer than they knew was possible, blossoming with greater self-worth, no longer as triggered or overwhelmed in relationships (& finally on the other side of acute symptoms of stress and trauma).

If you haven’t felt a sense of ease and struggle with feeling supported in relationships, I highly recommend weekly or biweekly sessions. Think of it like emotional physical therapy — or therapy for your physical nervous system. The work is cumulative and builds on itself. For trauma, illness or injury, you will see compounding results with consistency.

Your first trial session is $75. After that, you may buy 5 sessions and get one free - $600, or sessions are the standard rate of $150 / 75 minutes (55 minutes for somatic coaching).

How do I know if this is the right work for me?

If you often feel stuck — either caught in constant overdrive or disconnected, exhausted, and burned out — your nervous system may be dysregulated. Maybe it feels like you can never truly relax, you overgive in relationships, or you absorb other people’s emotions to the point of exhaustion.

If this resonates, it’s a sign that your body and nervous system are craving nourishment. Relationships may feel threatening, or you may be carrying patterns of neglect, emotional volatility. Your body might be expressing these patterns as physical pain to manage feelings that are too much to feel on your own.

You don’t have to work so hard, and struggle, alone. Somatic healing and craniosacral therapy in Denver can help you unwind, repattern habitual tension, and reconnect with your body and your sense of self. You’ve likely done everything right, and even healed — but your body needs to learn safety, attunement and ease.

I’d love to work with you. Schedule a free 20-minute consultation to explore how somatic healing or craniosacral therapy can help you feel grounded, calm, and more fully alive as yourself again.