Somatic Experiencing Massage
Our physical body, specifically the fascial system, holds memories and emotions of our life experiences.
Somatic Experiencing massage focuses on connecting you with these memories and emotions located in specific body parts. Throughout the session, you are welcome to share any thoughts or memories that arise. The therapist will provide prompts to support the nervous system to integrate whatever is presenting itself. The goal is to facilitate a profound reconnection with your body, ultimately leading to a restoration of embodiment.
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I am not a psychotherapist. I am just like you; on a lifelong journey of healing. What qualifies me is my personal healing journey and 9 years of being a massage therapist where I create a safe space that facilitates my clients' healing.
I hold space with unconditional love and acceptance for whatever phase of life you are in. All parts of you are welcome to show up. Parts that feel shame, judgment, guilt, pain, grief, depression, sadness and all other emotions that can be difficult to move through on your own. I find when I am in a space like this where every aspect of who I am is embraced, I not only feel acknowledged but also gain deeper insight into my true essence. This environment enables you to access your innate ability to accept, love, and make peace with all the parts of yourself, leading you towards a more liberated self.
I am not here to fix you. I am here to remind you of your own self healing capacity. You alone heal yourself. massage therapy, psychotherapy, meditation, yoga, psychedelics, etc. are all modalities to help you access the healing within yourself.
I would love to be a part of your journey whether it’s a one time visit or an ongoing relationship. Whoever and wherever you are…
Welcome home.
I see you.
Therapeutic Massage
The all encompassing massage! I utilize my training in Connective Tissue work, Myofascial Release, Reiki, Neuromuscular Therapy and Structural Integration to create a treatment plan. This is for anyone hoping to increase mobility, recover from injury, improve posture or ease everyday discomfort. I characterize the approach as slow and deep, where 'deep' doesn't necessarily imply more pressure but rather a nuanced exploration of the deeper layers. I work in harmony with your body rather than against it.
Manual Lymphatic Drainage
The lymphatic system plays a vital role in your body’s ability to fight off infections. The spleen, thymus, lymph nodes, and glands function as filters; they trap viruses, toxins and other unwanted materials before they can infect the rest of the body. The MLD technique is a gentle hands-on touch that stimulates lymph flow while also activating the immune and parasympathetic nervous systems, resulting in a profoundly relaxing experience. The body is like a river, receiving manual lymphatic drainage helps keep the channels open and the flow going.
Some common signs that your lymphatic system could use a boost: arthritis, skin conditions, digestive disorders, frequent headaches, sinus infections, excess weight, chronic fatigue, lymphedema. Our body has 3xs more lymph than blood but has no organ to cause circulation. Manual Lymphatic Drainage by a trained therapist is one of the ways to boost the lymphatic system to help your body do what it’s already capable of.
Reiki
Reiki: universal life force energy. Reiki provides space for your body’s natural self healing capability to take place without the agenda of the practitioner. Reiki brings the body to its natural state
(parasympathetic dominance). It is a gentle, calming hands-on or off approach. You will experience subtle healing throughout your body, stress release and deep relaxation. I work with the body's seven main chakras, which are dynamic energy centers distributed throughout the body. These chakras are in a state of constant flux, shifting between openness and closure. Through my practice, I help individuals understand and balance these energetic centers to promote overall well-being and harmony.
Astrology-Informed Somatic Experiencing
Understanding Your Blueprint + Embodying Your Healing
At its core, this practice is built on a simple truth:
When you begin to understand the deeper patterns shaping your behavior and gently regulate the nervous system's responses connected to them, you create freedom to live with greater awareness, intention, and connection to yourself.
The Role of Astrology
Astrology is a blueprint that reveals your innate nature, life themes, and the lessons shaping your personal evolution.
Often, when we do not understand ourselves, we judge ourselves. Astrology offers perspective, helping us recognize that many of our internal conflicts follow deeper patterns rather than random circumstance.
Every placement in your chart can be expressed in both conscious and unconscious ways.
Learning to understand these patterns helps you recognize where you may be operating from habit, conditioning, fear, or unconscious programming - and where you have the opportunity to embody the highest expression of who you are.
Understanding the Planetary Archetypes
Each planet represents a different aspect of human experience:
Sun: identity, ego, personality
Rising Sign: soul’s blueprint — what you came here to learn and embody
Moon: emotional world, intuition, subconscious mind
Mercury: the mind, communication style, learning process
Venus: values, love, pleasure, beauty
Mars: motivation, action, masculine energy, sexuality, and how you assert yourself
Jupiter: expansion, opportunity, abundance, where life naturally opens for you
Saturn: discipline, structure, responsibility, maturity, karmic lessons
Uranus: freedom, rebellion, innovation, individuality, disruption, thinking outside convention
Neptune: spirituality, dreams, creativity, mysticism, illusion, and transcendence
Pluto: transformation, power and control, rebirth, shadow work
The Role of Somatic Experiencing
Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to healing trauma and nervous system dysregulation.
Unlike traditional talk therapy, where you might repeatedly revisit or relive painful experiences, we instead help the nervous system safely complete survival responses such as fight, flight, freeze and fawn that were interrupted during stressful experiences.
As these cycles resolve, stored survival energy can begin releasing.
This creates access to new ways of feeling, responding, and moving through life that previously felt unavailable.
Why Combine Astrology with Somatic Experiencing?
Somatic Experiencing work reveals and helps regulate what the nervous system has been holding.
Astrology helps us understand why certain patterns may exist in the first place.
Together, these approaches create a deeply personalized healing process.
What a Session Looks Like
Bring anything you’re currently navigating, seeking clarity around, or wanting to explore more deeply, including:
• Anxiety, overwhelm, or nervous system dysregulation
• Repetitive emotional or behavioral patterns
• Difficulty understanding your emotions or relationships
• Shame, self-judgment, or feeling disconnected from yourself
• Questions around purpose, career, fulfillment, or life direction
• A desire to better understand your deeper patterns and potential
During the session
1. Astrology as Perspective
We explore what your chart reveals about the pattern you are experiencing.
I offer reframes and insights that help explain why certain experiences may repeatedly arise in your life.
2. Somatic Experiencing
We work directly with the nervous system to process incomplete survival responses connected to the issue you are experiencing.
3. Embodied Integration
The nervous system begins reorganizing around safety rather than survival.
The Philosophy Behind My Work
I believe that life is constantly offering opportunities for growth and self-understanding.
Rather than relating to our experiences as random suffering, I choose to approach life with curiosity.
Instead of: “Why is this happening to me?”
I ask: “What is this experience asking me to learn?”
The more deeply we know ourselves, the less energy we spend resisting who we are.
This work helps you develop the awareness needed to live with greater freedom, intention, and alignment.
*I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in training through Dr Peter Levine's 2.5 year training program.