Healing Through the Body:
Somatic Energetic Therapy

​Memory, trauma, stress and anxiety doesn’t live only in the brain—it also resides in the body and energy field.

 

When we experience stress, trauma, anxiety, or fear, our sympathetic nervous system activates the fight, flight, or freeze response. These survival patterns can become embedded not just in the nervous system but also in our muscles, tissues, and energetic centers. A fight flight pattern can be released from the body as shaking, years after the trauma event.

 

Interestingly, after animals go into fight-flight they will literally shake the adrenaline and cortisol out of their body.

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Using a combination of somatic healing and energy work, I gently access and release these stored patterns—bringing deep emotional relief and energetic balance. This integrative process helps you reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system, and return to a more peaceful, aligned state.

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I became a therapist after twenty years as a film director. This change was because an odd shift happened in my perception in my mid forties. I began to see energy blocks in the body (literally saw them as shadow) where trauma and negative feelings were held. I found I was able to move these blocks with my hands. I establish better flow through the bodies energy system by working directly on these blocks. Sometimes the blocks were held in a tiny muscle in the jaw or on the inside of the knee. A tiny shift could lead to a really big emotional release in my client. I found that when I moved these blocks that people talked about feeling lighter and more positive. With the ability to see 'energy blocks' also came a deep intuition in many different guises, that I draw on to help my clients.

 

It became a standard part of my treatment, particularly for people with anxiety, as they had so much negative fear energy stored in their system. I have been very reticent to go public with this part of my therapy, as there is zero evidence beyond the responses and testimonial of my clients.  I have witnessed many profound and seemingly impossible shifts as a result of the energy work. I had one young man with strong anxiety get off the table without 'anxiety' after I found a deeply traumatic event in his solar plexus and moved it. I cannot even begin to describe what it felt like when it moved out of him through me and the resulting lightness that he experienced. He described his nervous system as being normal after our session together, after a life-time of strong anxiety. This is not a standard result, but this work can be profound. 

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I often use sound bowls and sound healing in combination with the energy work.

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