

What I See from the Other Side of the Screen.
Somatic, creative and attuned therapy for childhood wounds. I spend most of my working hours sitting in front of a screen, looking at someone's face. Usually it's someone who has been carrying something heavy for a long time and has gotten very good at not showing it. From my side, I see things that the person across from me often can't see about themselves. I see how they hold their breath when they get close to something that matters. I see the small ways they check my face


Feeling Numb isn't a sign that something is wrong with you.
For a long time, I didn’t think of it as numbness. I thought of it as composure, as being grounded, as being the kind of person who could hold it together when things got hard, the one who didn’t overreact, the one who stayed steady, the one who could keep going no matter what showed up around me. It made sense to me that I stayed that way, that I liked being the one people could count on, the one who didn’t fall apart, the one who could keep things moving even when everythin


What Is Somatic Therapy — And Can It Actually Work Online?
I meet with many people for whom talk therapy wasn't the problem. They'd done the work. They understood their patterns, sometimes with remarkable clarity — the childhood roots, the coping strategies, the ways they'd learned to manage. And still, something remained unchanged at a level that insight alone couldn't reach. The body had been holding the story the whole time. Somatic therapy begins with a foundational premise that trauma and chronic stress aren't only stored in mem


Outgrowing Survival Mode: When Your Body Says “Enough”
For many people, survival mode doesn’t begin with a dramatic event. It often begins quietly, almost invisibly, in childhood homes where emotions were unpredictable or ignored. A seven-year-old learning not to cry after being told to “calm down.” A teenager keeping the peace in a household shaped by addiction. A young adult navigating the aftermath of divorce before their nervous system has ever known stability. Survival mode forms in these small, repeated moments of having to



