It’s one thing to read a book, listen to a podcast, or a meditation. It’s another thing entirely to be able to learn about your nervous system with someone else who’s got your back and who is there with you each step of the way, to provide encouragement, answer your questions, and tailor practices so that they fit your life and your body.

I’ve found that embodiment and nervous system regulation literature specifically leave out the queer, trans experience - which is beautiful, unique, and not one-size-fits-all. In offering these sessions, it’s my goal that you’re able to find a way to feel seen and understood within these practices. And that we get to create together practices that work for you, for the long-term.

Polyvagal theory is a way of understanding how your nervous system works, and how it affects your ability to feel - and not feel - safe in the world. Your nervous system responds in specific ways to stress and danger. By better understanding how your nervous system responds to cues of safety and danger, and understanding how to notice when your nervous system is in a threat-based state or a safety-based state, you’ll have a much better understanding of why your body responds the way it does in your daily life. You’ll also be able to develop specific tools to help you effectively come back into safety.

My work is based on the work of Deb Dana. A great introduction can be found here.

My journey to becoming a somatic-informed therapist hasn’t been linear. As a trans, non-binary person, I initially struggled with the idea of embodiment because, let’s face it, being in a body that felt dysphoric was beyond difficult. I felt unseen in a lot of typical somatic approaches because I felt like they didn’t understand my lived experience of being in a queer, trans body. It took awhile for me to realize that my resistance to somatic therapy wasn’t because there was something inherently wrong with me, but because I didn’t know how somatic therapy could see and support me me in my queer, trans body. These 12-week sessions not simply teach you about nervous system regulation, but they prioritize queer embodiment, celebrate trans joy and gender euphoria, and name the very real systemic issues that impact how queer folx feel about our bodies.

No! I believe everyone benefits from a queer, radical lens to therapy, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

In my depth therapeutic work, I see folx weekly over the course of six months to years. We explore relational patterns, family history, past trauma, as well as present-moment experience. These 12-week sessions are goal-oriented and focused specifically on helping you map out and understand your body and nervous system from a Polyvagal lens. We’ll have an agenda for our sessions, and stay focused on teaching you about Polyvagal theory and giving you homework in between each session. We’ll practice specific practices together, and you’ll have a chance to incorporate these practices as we meet.

Yes! If you decide you’d like to continue working together in a more depth-oriented format following our 12 weeks together, we can transition to ongoing therapeutic work together. (To get a better sense of that, check out my individual therapy page to learn more).

For information on fees and insurance, visit my FAQ page.

12 weeks allows us to have enough time to establish a supportive container together, incorporate information, practice exercises together, and allow time for integration and completion.