Somatic Work – mysoulwish

Personal Story & Philosophy

The body is not separate from the journey.

Attending to the needs of my own body has been one of the most transformational aspects of my personal healing. Learning to find attunement — to notice what my body needs in any given moment — changed the way I understand myself and the way I work.

Caring for the body is not an indulgence — it is a homecoming. Long before modern medicine, there was a presence to our bodies that intuitively whispered what to eat based on deficiencies, how to move so that stored energy could be released, and in many other ways what the body needed. That knowing never left. We are simply finding our way back to it.

And in our work together, my hope is to use it as a compass — a place to feel, to listen, and to return to. Because if the body is not being cared for, the mind cannot follow.

The Work

Healing through the body's own intelligence.

Trauma, stress, and inherited patterns don't only live in the story we tell ourselves — they live in the nervous system, in muscle, in breath, in the slightest contraction we no longer notice.

Somatic work uses gentle awareness of body sensation, breath, and impulse to invite the system back toward regulation and aliveness. Drawing from IFS, somatic and nervous system frameworks, we let the body lead and the mind follow.

This work is woven into individual therapy sessions, not offered as a standalone service.

Functional Medicine Collaboration

Care that goes deeper than the session room.

Sometimes what is happening in the body needs more than therapy to understand. I work alongside trusted integrative functional medicine practitioners — providers I have either worked with personally or whose work with clients I have seen directly — to support clients in understanding what is happening inside their bodies.

This includes support for women navigating hormonal shifts — perimenopause, menopause, postpartum, and PMDD — and men navigating hormonal imbalances that quietly affect mood, clarity, and vitality. It also includes the gut, which research increasingly confirms is inseparable from our mental and emotional health.

We are not just minds. We are ecosystems.

If you already have a practitioner you trust, I am happy to collaborate. With a signed release of information, I can coordinate care to ensure your healing is held from every angle.

What Somatic Work Supports

Common reasons people come to this work

Chronic anxiety and a nervous system stuck on high
Trauma responses that don't respond to talk therapy alone
Numbness, dissociation, or feeling out of body
Burnout, exhaustion, and over-functioning
Reconnection to pleasure, rest, and capacity
Women navigating hormonal shifts and their emotional impact

The body remembers,
and the body knows the way.

The body is not separate from the journey.

Healing through the body's own intelligence.

Care that goes deeper than the session room.

Common reasons people come to this work

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