FAQ
This work may resonate with people who are interested in slowing down, becoming more honest about their experience, and developing a different relationship with themselves, their body, and reality as it is.
It’s less oriented toward symptom management or optimization, and more toward contact, capacity, and participation in a natural process.
We track experience around whatever is present or whatever you want to bring into the session.
Sometimes that means talking. Sometimes it means sitting quietly with something that’s happening in the body or in the relationship. Sometimes we may become curious about inviting an experience into the room to explore together—not as an intervention, but in the spirit of, “What if we tried this and noticed what happens?”
The orientation is playful and exploratory rather than prescriptive. There is no fixed protocol or agenda unless that’s something we decide to create together. We simply meet, pay attention, and allow experience to unfold, trusting that the organism already knows a great deal about how to process and organize itself when given enough time, space, support, and relationship.
I hope you’ll tell me, if and when you can.
Your experience of me and of the process is part of the work itself. If something lands poorly, if you feel misunderstood, irritated, disconnected, bored, skeptical, or simply don’t like what’s happening, I’d much rather know than have you carry it alone.
There’s no expectation that you agree with me or enjoy every moment of our work together. There’s room here for confusion, disagreement, frustration, rupture, and the many ways we protect ourselves.
It may be that something has gone wrong. It may also be that something important is happening. I’d be curious to explore it together and see what emerges.
“Somatic” simply means “related to the body.”
In this work, attention is given not only to thoughts and stories, but also to the body’s ongoing communication and expression. Breath, posture, gesture, sensation, movement, impulse, overall feeling tone, and emotion are all part of experience as it unfolds.
The “relational” part means that this exploration happens in the presence of another person. We are simply meeting and relating. Sometimes that includes words. Sometimes it includes silence. Sometimes the body says something before language does.
I understand the body as continuously engaged in its own innate regulatory processes. My role is not to direct or impose those processes, but to provide enough time, space, support, and relationship for them to unfold in their own way. I trust the organism’s capacity to move toward greater organization when given the conditions to do so.
I don’t frame this work primarily through diagnosis, pathology, or treatment.
My orientation is relational, experiential, and educational. That said, many people naturally find themselves engaging emotionally, psychologically, and physically in the process.
If you’re unsure whether this work is appropriate for your situation, feel free to reach out.
Eight weeks is long enough for rhythm, continuity, and relationship to begin developing, while still remaining bounded and approachable.
The structure helps create conditions for sustained contact rather than one-off insight or performance.
Part of the intention is not to become someone’s permanent container, but to help support the development of ongoing conditions for contact in the rest of their life.
The 8-week container is built around continuity and commitment. Paying up front helps create a clear and stable container for the work, rather than an ongoing series of individual sessions.
The next natural question is: what if I decide I want to stop before the eight weeks are over?
You’re always free to stop.
If that happens, I’d be grateful for the opportunity to talk about what’s leading you there. It may be that something has gone wrong. It may also be that something important is happening. I’d be curious to explore it together before arriving at either conclusion.
The eight-week container is paid for in advance and is not refundable. My commitment is to remain available to you for the duration of that container. I’m not going to ask you to leave, and you’re not obligated to stay. If your relationship to the work changes, that’s something we can make room for too.
Consistency matters.
Part of the work is allowing the nervous system to experience continuity, predictability, and enough space for something deeper than strategizing or crisis management to emerge.
An exploratory call is a brief conversation to get a sense of whether the work feels like a good fit.
Consultations are longer, paid sessions intended to be more educational in nature. They’re a space to explore how the nervous system works in general through the lens of my training and experience, ask questions, and orient to what this work is all about.
If you’re interested in engaging more directly in experiential work during a consultation session, that’s also welcome—just let me know beforehand.
Consultations are not intended to function as an ongoing container. If you think you may want continued relational work together, I’d encourage you to consider the 8-week container instead.
At the moment, I work primarily on Zoom.
You probably don’t need absolute certainty.
If something in the language or orientation of the work resonates, that’s enough reason to reach out and explore further.
Yes.
The 8-week container is already offered on a sliding scale ($1000–1400), though my ability to slide below that range is limited and depends on current availability.
I generally have more flexibility with consultation sessions and am happy to have a conversation about financial circumstances when appropriate.
Consultations are intended as standalone educational sessions rather than ongoing work. If you’re interested in a consultation or would like to discuss sliding scale availability, feel free to reach out and we’ll see what makes sense.