Welcome

Years ago, I developed a vision statement: to be fully present, a catalyst of individual, social, and environmental well-being.

In my own life, my focus on social and environmental work came to a point where it became clear I needed to focus on the individual aspect by slowing down and tending to my own healing, trauma resolution, and nervous system regulation in order to re-fill my own cup. 

You may be at a similar point. Or perhaps you’re feeling overwhelmed, disconnected from your body, or stuck on past experiences. Wherever you are on your journey, I would be honored to support your healing.

I completed my 3-Year Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training after several years as an SE client and I have benefitted from this work myself. My somatic development and practice is also greatly informed by over ten years as an Insight Meditation practitioner, including eight months of intensive silent meditation retreat experience (a combination of two month-long and many week to two week-long retreats). 

I believe every body and every nervous system can heal. Together, we’ll work on creating the conditions that support your healing and releasing the barriers that get in the way of balance. 

This work is about:

• Increasing safety, resource, coherence, and balance safety, and resource

• Increasing your capacity to feel joy and developing greater resilience over time

• Releasing what’s no longer needed

• Developing greater nervous system balance and regulation
  

I work well with those who have chronic illnesses or medical trauma, those looking to address effects of physical accidents (sports accidents, falls, car and bike accidents, etc.). and those working with the impacts of systemic oppression on the body. I am LGBTQIA+-affirming.

Our world needs healed and healing people more than ever.  I believe in collective liberation, and the needs in this moment are great.

You can’t continue to pour from a cup that’s empty. Taking time for your own healing is not an act of selfishness - it can ultimately increase your own capacity to contribute to others and the needs of the larger world, in whatever way you choose.

It would be a privilege to work with you on your somatic journey. 

—Melanie