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 Practices Within STATE HOUSE
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SOMATIC EXPERIENCING®
A somatic practice for anxiety, trauma, and the patterns that shape your life. Nervous-system work to build greater capacity, flexibility, and regulation.
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PRESENT COMPANY
A somatic leadership practice for pressure, performance, and the patterns that shape how you lead. Nervous-system-informed work brought into executive coaching and leadership development.
OUR METHOD
The Human Capacity Method™
Awareness → Resourcing → Renegotiation → Integration — Grounded in Somatic Experiencing® and somatic coaching, the Human Capacity Method™ brings together four interconnected processes that support meaningful change. Rather than following a rigid sequence, the work helps you recognize established patterns, develop the resources to navigate pressure, and create new possibilities for how you respond. Over time, these changes can support greater flexibility, connection, and choice—in leadership, relationships, and everyday life.
A six-session 1:1 experience that lays the groundwork for deeper work at State House.
Whether you come through Somatic Experiencing® or Somatic Executive Coaching, we begin with the first two phases of the Human Capacity Method™: Awareness + Recovery.
Foundations is a complete experience on its own, or the beginning of deeper work together. Either way, you’ll leave with a clearer understanding of your nervous system, practical ways to work with it, and a clearer sense of what you may need next.
SIX 1:1 SESSIONS: $1,500
STATE HOUSE Foundations
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For some people, somatic work is completely new. In some ways, it means learning a new way of paying attention—so we begin with education.
You’ll learn how the body communicates through sensation, image, behavior, emotion, and meaning; what it means to “drop in” or check in with your body; and how your nervous system responds to stress and safety. Along the way, we’ll begin practicing the basic skills of tracking, body awareness, and noticing sensation.
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We’ll make the work personal by mapping how your nervous system moves through different states—what fight or flight looks and feels like for you, how you experience freeze, and the cues that tell you when your system is moving toward greater regulation.
From there, we’ll identify resources and build a practical set of somatic tools for working with those different states. You’ll practice using them between sessions so nervous-system regulation becomes something you can begin bringing into everyday life, not something that only happens while we’re together.
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During these six sessions, I’m also learning you and your nervous system. No two nervous systems are exactly alike. We each have different capacities, different starting points, and different goals for this work.
At the end of Foundations, we’ll take time to talk about what we’ve learned and what you want from here. You may decide to continue into ongoing work, where we can identify what you want to focus on and go deeper together. Or Foundations may be exactly what you needed—and you leave with a better understanding of your nervous system, personalized practices that work for you, and the skills to keep bringing what you’ve learned into your everyday life.
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.
ABOUT
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.
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