Stress and trauma activate the body’s survival response, disrupting the central nervous system’s ability to regulate itself.  Dysregulation can keep the body in a prolonged state of perceived threat, contributing to anxiety, depression, chronic pain, health challenges, and relationship patterns rooted in protection rather than connection. When the nervous system becomes caught in survival mode, it can lose access to the deeper wisdom, ease, and clarity that arise when the body feels grounded and secure.​

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Healing the nervous system supports neuroplasticity and creates new neural pathways in the brain. This signals a release of old patterns as the new sense of security is established.  The nervous system learns to trust and integrates past experiences. This process can feel like a homecoming, a return to the truth and inherent wholeness. 

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​Somatic and Craniosacral Therapy 

Craniosacral Therapy (CST), somatic practices, and Internal Family Systems (or parts work) provides holistic and sustained healing. 

CST utilizes gentle touch to release tension patterns stored in the fascia, musculature and the central nervous system. Clients experience improvements in sleep, reductions in anxiety, depression and relief from chronic pain. CST provide the nervous system a state of stillness as the body’s innate intelligence returns to a sense of inner wholeness and connection.

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Somatic Therapy practices may include expressive movement, intuitive sound, free writing, guided visualization, conscious breathwork, and attuning to the felt sense of the body. This work often involves meeting and feeling the emotions stored within the tissues, to integrate  younger or unconscious parts of the self. 

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