Somatic Experiencing in Toronto and Online
I've been a Certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP) since 2009, based in Toronto and working online with people across Canada and internationally. Somatic Experiencing is the foundation of my training. My sessions also include the spiritual and energetic dimensions of healing and the patterns carried through families.
Somatic Experiencing is a body-based approach to trauma healing. It works with the nervous system and with the way past experience may still be shaping present life. Rather than asking you to relive or retell everything, the work supports a slower listening to sensations, emotions, impulses, and the ways your body learned to protect you.
When something has been overwhelming, the body may keep organizing around it long after the event has passed. This can show up as anxiety, emotional overwhelm, shutdown, hypervigilance, difficulty with boundaries, or reactions that feel bigger than the moment.
We move slowly and don't push for release or catharsis. The aim is a nervous system with more capacity, regulation, and choice.
What Somatic Experiencing Sessions Can Support
The work is especially helpful when insight is already present but the nervous system hasn't caught up. Instead of trying to think your way out of the pattern, we listen for how your body is organizing around protection, and for what becomes possible with more safety, contact, and choice.
If you've already understood a lot about yourself but your body still responds from an earlier place, this work may help. It can also support you through life transitions, grief, relational difficulty, spiritual opening, or a time when old patterns are becoming more visible.
To see how the spiritual and energetic dimensions fit in, read about trauma-informed spiritual healing.
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Online Somatic Experiencing Sessions
Sessions are held online. We begin with a free 20-minute conversation. You decide afterward whether to continue.