Where You Come
Home to Yourself
Nervous-system work for the deeply human experience of being alive.
Based in Brooklyn, New York · Serving clients worldwide
I work with people who are ready to meet themselves in the body, not just in their heads.
Most of my clients have already done real work — therapy, coaching, a spiritual practice, years of paying attention to themselves. They know their patterns. They can trace where a habit started and why it still shows up.
What they're looking for now is different: a relationship with the body itself. Somatic work brings sensation, breath, impulse, and emotion into the conversation, not just the backdrop to it.
Over time, that shift creates more room to experience your life — not just explain it. More presence. More steadiness. More of you, showing up.
YOU WANT TO INCLUDE THE BODY
You're genuinely curious what your sensations, emotions, and impulses might show you — beyond what you already understand.
YOU'RE SELF-AWARE
You've already done meaningful inner work, and reflection isn't new to you — you've sat with yourself before.
YOU'RE READY TO GO DEEPER
You want experiential work, not just conversation — something that helps you feel more connected to yourself, not just more informed about yourself.
Whether you're doing this work for yourself or bringing it into how you lead,
the underlying shift is the same.
This is for the parent, dysregulated and still showing up. The executive whose composure at work costs something at home. The person still finding steady ground after everything changed. Pressure doesn't stay neatly contained. What happens at work can follow us home, and what we're carrying personally can shape how we show up at work. This work is about becoming more coherent in both: steadier, more present, more able to belong — more fully human, wherever you are.
Two Paths to Work Together
Somatic Experiencing® for anxiety, trauma, and the patterns that shape your life.
Somatic executive coaching and leadership development for leading under pressure
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SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® & SOMATIC THERAPY
When You’re Ready to Meet Yourself Beyond Words
Private, experiential somatic therapy and nervous-system work for people navigating anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, attachment and relationship patterns, or experiences that continue to ask for your attention.
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PRESENT COMPANY
Where High Performance Stays Human.
Present Company is the leadership practice of State House Somatics — nervous-system-informed somatic executive coaching and leadership development available as 1:1 work, or as an organizational engagement for companies investing in how their leaders and teams perform under pressure. The work brings physiology into the places where pressure affects judgment, relationships, communication, recovery, and how people lead.
OUR METHOD
The Human Capacity Method™
Awareness → Recovery → Response Flexibility → Integration — the same framework underneath every way we work together, from Somatic Experiencing® and nervous-system regulation to somatic executive coaching and leadership development. It’s how you build the capacity to notice what’s happening, recover under pressure, and respond with more choice — so it holds up in the moments that matter most, not just the calm ones.
ABOUT
Meet the Somatic Practitioner Behind State House
Alicia Divers, SEP™, MA-SD, is the founder of State House Somatics, a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, and a nervous-system-informed executive coach.
She started State House on a simple belief: change takes more than understanding yourself — it takes your body being part of it too.
Her approach draws on Somatic Experiencing®, nervous-system work, and years spent studying embodied and relational practice. Whether she's working with an individual or a leader, she's looking for what's underneath the patterns people already know — and what opens up once the body gets a seat at the table.
The work, at its core, is about helping people feel more like themselves — more present, more connected, more alive in their own lives.
From State House Clients
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Laurie Smolenski
“Alicia gave me language to understand how I move through the world. She helped me recognize that I can access support within my own body in moments of discomfort or unease.”
Laurie Smolenski
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Jessica Alzen
“My work with Alicia has helped me lead with greater confidence and presence. I am more able to stay connected during challenging moments, move toward people rather than away from them, and create the kind of team environment where learning, honesty, and growth are possible.”
Jessica Alzen Education Program Evaluator
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Nzinga Mack, PhD
“I became more aware of the sensations in my body and learned how to create more space and choice instead of feeling hijacked by them.”
Nzinga Mack, PhD Pharmacologist and Biomedical Engineer
Wondering if Somatic Work Is Right for You?
Whether you're coming to this work for yourself, for your team, or for the way you move through the world, you don't have to have it all figured out to start a conversation.
We can start with a conversation about what’s bringing you here and what kind of support might fit.
NEWSLETTER
The State Report
Monthly reflections on leadership, nervous system science, decision-making, and staying deeply human under pressure.
One thoughtful email. No noise.