What is Somatic EMDR Nervous System Integration?

There are moments when your mind understands… but your body still reacts like it’s happening now.

Somatic work is an experiential, body-based approach to healing that helps you reconnect with yourself from the inside out. The word “soma” means the living body known from within. That matters, because trauma and chronic stress can create a split inside us, where we live from the neck up, bracing, pushing through, disconnecting, or shutting down.

These sessions are designed to help restore the body as a place of safety, expand capacity, and support your system in processing what never had the time, space, or permission to move through.

What is Somatics?

Somatic therapy is a mindbody approach that supports integration through awareness, sensation, pacing, and nervous system regulation.

Somatic work can support you to:

• Restore the body as a place of safety

• Build capacity to process preverbal and nonverbal memory

• Metabolize unprocessed emotion

• Complete stress responses that never got to finish

• Rebuild your relationship with yourself, your boundaries, and the world around you

In somatic trauma work, symptoms aren’t “wrong.” They’re communication. They’re the body’s wisdom trying to protect you.

What is EMDR (and Why “Somatic EMDR-Informed Therapy?)

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR uses a structured approach and bilateral stimulation (like eye movement or tapping) to help reduce the emotional charge around past experiences, present triggers, and even anticipated future stressors.

A somatic approach brings the body into the process through things like:

• Tracking sensation and emotion in real time

• Grounding, orienting, and resourcing

• Boundary awareness and consent-based pacing

• Movement and gentle completion of “stuck” survival impulses

In other words: we’re not forcing anything. We’re building safety and capacity first, and then supporting processing in a way that respects your system.

Is Somatic EMDR Therapy Right for Me?

These sessions may be supportive for you if:

• You feel stuck in emotional loops or old patterns you can’t “think” your way out of

• You experience anxiety, overwhelm, panic, shutdown, numbness, or chronic stress

• You dissociate, people-please, freeze, or feel constantly on guard

• You’ve done talk therapy but your body still doesn’t feel safe

• You’re navigating trauma (big or subtle), grief, or a history of invalidation

• You want to feel more regulated, embodied, and anchored in your life

This work is especially aligned for people who want nervous system support that is body-led, paced, and consent-centered.

What Does a Session Look Like?

Each session is guided and collaborative. We move at a pace your system can actually integrate.

A session may include:

• Intention setting and resourcing (building safety first)

• Somatic tracking (sensations, emotion, impulses, signals)

• Grounding, orienting, and regulation tools you can take home

• EMDR-informed bilateral stimulation (as appropriate)

• Gentle integration and closing so you leave feeling supported

You don’t have to relive everything to heal. We work with what’s here, and what your body is ready for.

Trauma, Through a Holistic Lens

A holistic view of trauma defines trauma not as the event itself, but as what happens inside us when something overwhelms our capacity to adapt.

Trauma can occur when:

• There is too much, too soon

• There is too much, for too long

• There is not enough, for too long

• Power and agency are taken

• Stressors outweigh available resources

• Protective instincts and responses are thwarted

• There isn’t time, space, or permission to heal

Symptoms are not character flaws. They’re adaptive responses. And they can be renegotiated with safety, support, and the right pacing.

Investment

This work is offered in a spacious 90-minute container, allowing time to arrive, regulate, process, and integrate without rushing. Sessions are customized based on what your nervous system needs in the moment and may include somatic regulation practices, resourcing, guided processing, and integration support.

Single Session (90 minutes)

$199

A powerful option for those wanting a deep reset, support through a current life stressor, or an introduction to this work.

3-Session Integration Series

$555

This is the recommended starting point for somatic trauma healing and nervous system rewiring. Many clients experience the deepest shifts through consistent work over several sessions, allowing the body to build safety, process stored emotional patterns, and integrate change at a sustainable pace.

6-Session Package

$1111

A deeper container for ongoing support, trauma healing, and long-term transformation. Ideal for those who are ready to commit to the healing process and want consistent guidance over time.

✨ Packages may be used flexibly and can be mixed and matched across your sessions, depending on what you need most (somatic integration, nervous system regulation, inner child work, hypnotherapy, energy work, and more).

FAQs

Do I have to talk about everything that happened?
No. We go at your pace. This work is body-led and consent-centered.

Is this therapy?
These sessions are trauma-informed and can be deeply therapeutic, but they are not psychotherapy (see disclaimer below). If you’re looking for clinical mental health treatment, I’m happy to help you find an appropriate licensed provider.

Will this be intense?
It can be powerful, but it’s not about pushing. We prioritize safety, stabilization, and integration.

Can this support “smaller” trauma too?
Yes. Trauma isn’t only big events. Chronic stress, emotional neglect, relational wounds, and prolonged overwhelm matter.

UPCOMING EVENTS

DISCLAIMER

Important Note / Disclaimer
I am not a licensed mental health therapist, psychologist, or medical provider. These sessions are educational and coaching-based, trauma-informed, and focused on somatic awareness, nervous system regulation, and EMDR-informed practices. They are not psychotherapy, and they are not a substitute for medical or mental health treatment. I do not diagnose, treat, or cure mental health conditions.

If you are experiencing severe symptoms, are in crisis, or may be at risk of harming yourself or others, please contact emergency services immediately (call 911 in the U.S.) or go to your nearest emergency room. You may also contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by calling or texting 988 (U.S.).