Trauma-Informed Somatic Coaching

Do you want to have a better relationship with your body?

Do you have a persistent pattern that you can’t seem to shake?

Has talking about your history of trauma only gotten you so far?

Somatic coaching sessions are body-based trauma-informed, skill-building practices, designed to reconnect you to your inner strength and healing capacity through close attention to bodily sensation, and connecting to ecological, spiritual, and ancestral resources.

PLEASE NOTE: These sessions are not a replacement for medical or psychotherapeutic treatment. Rather, they are designed as adjunct spiritual, emotional and somatic support for your existing treatment plan. If you are currently experiencing a medical emergency, call 911. If you are experiencing a crisis, call or text the national crisis line.

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Sessions are intended to be:

  • somatically inquiring: we will pay attention to physical sensation as the primary map which provides information about the challenge at hand and potential resources

  • emergent and experiential: we will explore sensations of the body with an open-handed sense of curiosity; there is no agenda for any one person’s experience and one size does not fit all

  • grounded in gentle inter-spiritual animist prayer and ritual

  • trauma-informed and choice-based: we work in a way that offers invitational access points to rediscover one’s own unique path to wellness through consent and compassionate relating

  • creative and co-creative

“I highly recommend this work! Kate is deeply wise beyond her years. She has an incredible ability to guide you to drop in to your body, work with your inner wisdom, and discover the resources within your own body. She has deep knowledge about somatics and healing trauma in the body, in addition to her deep commitment to anti-racism work.”
— Anonymous Somatic Coaching Participant
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Outcomes

Everyone’s experience is generative and unique; however, folks have reported experiencing:

  • a calmer nervous system

  • insight into their next steps

  • increased access points to resources and a renewed sense of strength

  • more skill in being able to down-regulate from fight/flight/freeze patterns

  • more skill in enduring difficult life situations

  • more skill, stamina and resilience in being an ally and staying engaged in justice work 

Influences & Sources

These sessions draw on the work of numerous folks and various healing modalities, including:

  • Tada Hozumi, and the emerging field of Cultural Somatics

  • Dare Carrasquillo & Larissa Kaul of Animist Arts

  • Anti-racist, anti-oppressive, queer, feminist, liberatory philosophical understandings

  • Trauma-Informed Yoga and Energy Medicine Techniques

  • Intercultural Pastoral Care

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