Somatic Therapy in Brooklyn

✧ Feeling on edge when nothing is “wrong”

✧ Difficulty relaxing, even when you want to

✧ Using distraction, overthinking, or other strategies to manage emotions rather than feel them

✧ A sense that your body is carrying more than you realize

✧ Struggling to stay present with uncomfortable emotions

✧ Wanting to feel more connected to your body but unsure how

You might notice:

Your body remembers what your mind may have moved past.

Somatic therapy helps the protective patterns held in your nervous system soften when they’re no longer needed.

Somatic therapy can help you feel:

✧ More present and at home in your body

✧ Greater steadiness and safety in your nervous system

✧ Less reactive to stress and more able to pause and choose

✧ Better able to stay with difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed

✧ More connected to your inner experience with curiosity and compassion

Somatic therapy invites us to slow down and pay attention to what your body is already communicating. Rather than analyzing your experience from a distance, we’ll use mindfulness and experiential exploration to understand the beliefs and patterns held in your body. We’ll slow down to notice what arises in the present moment—tracking sensations, impulses, and subtle shifts—allowing them to unfold to see where they lead. We’ll expand your capacity to feel while maintaining a sense of safety, helping your nervous system experience new possibilities for regulation, connection, and ease. 

I offer somatic therapy in person in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, and online throughout New York State. If you’re curious about how somatic work might support you, keep reading, or reach out to begin a conversation.

What Is Somatic Therapy?

You might notice responses in your body—tightness, clenching, a pit in your stomach, a steady hum of tension, or sudden reactions in particular situations—that you don’t fully understand or don’t like. Nothing is wrong with you; your system learned to adapt in smart ways to try to protect you. Somatic therapy helps those adaptations soften when they’re no longer needed, allowing your body and nervous system to find more ease, flexibility, and safety. 

Or it may be that you don’t notice much in your body at all. That’s normal. Most of us spend most of our time in our heads. We usually have strong intellectual or “thinker” parts of us that run the show. While these parts are valuable, the body can be an important source of information that isn’t always accessible through thought alone. With somatic therapy, we’ll work in a bottom-up, rather than top-down, way, allowing insight and healing to unfold from the body rather than trying to think our way into change. This can mean sitting mindfully with a sensation, impulse, thought, or emotion and seeing what emerges. It can also mean going inside to focus on a particular part of you that you may find is keeping you stuck and noticing how that part shows up in your body, making room for deeper awareness and healing.

Emotions begin in the body, and over time we develop creative ways of not fully feeling them, such as distracting ourselves, analyzing them from a distance, pushing them away, or shutting down. In somatic therapy, we’ll gently expand your capacity to stay present with your internal experience without becoming overwhelmed, helping emotions move through you rather than staying stuck.

My approach is Hakomi-informed and blends mindfulness-centered somatic work with Internal Family Systems (IFS). Over time, this work can help you feel more present, less reactive, and more at home in your body.

What to Expect

In our sessions, we’ll slow down and pay close attention to your present-moment experience. You might bring in a situation, emotional experience, or relational dynamic you want to explore. As we talk, we’ll notice what’s happening in your body—sensations, tension, subtle shifts—and practice mindful curiosity rather than immediately analyzing or solving. 

Sometimes this means staying with a sensation or emotional edge just a little longer than you’re used to, while also making sure you remain anchored in safety. We’ll build your capacity to feel difficult emotions without becoming overwhelmed, expanding your window of tolerance so your system can process rather than avoid. 

As we allow your experience to unfold, some of what what arises may be new or surprising—patterns your system has held that weren’t fully conscious before. Together, we’ll bring curious, compassionate attention to these experiences to notice what they’re communicating. From a mindful place, we’ll help your body and the vulnerable parts of you update old beliefs and receive new, nourishing experiences, allowing long-held patterns to soften, shift, and release.

Throughout our work, we’ll incorporate practical tools for regulation that support your nervous system as you process and integrate emotional experiences. Learning to listen to the body takes practice, but over time it can deepen self-understanding, increase resilience, and help you feel more steady and connected in your daily life.