When You’re Ready to Meet Yourself Beyond Words.
1:1 Somatic Experiencing® sessions for anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, and the patterns that shape how you feel, relate, and move through the world.
SOMATIC EXPERIENCING®
The Body Does More Than Keep Score. It Responds.
Meeting What's Present
Before you even have words for what's happening, your nervous system has already started responding. You orient toward what matters. You mobilize to protect yourself. Reach, brace, fight, flee, freeze—your body knows these moves long before your mind catches up.
Working With What's Here
Most of the time, that response moves through you and resolves on its own. But when something is overwhelming, or there’s no real way to act on it in the moment, part of that protective response can remain unfinished.
Staying With What's Now
Somatic Experiencing® works with what’s happening in your body now. Not by pulling you back into what happened, but by following the sensation, the movement, the breath, the impulse—slowly enough that your system can actually keep up.
What is Somatic Experiencing®Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented, experiential approach to resolving stress, shock, and trauma by working with the nervous system and protective responses—such as fight, flight, or freeze—that can remain unfinished after overwhelming experiences.
You Don't Need a Diagnosis—or the Perfect Words for What's Happening.
People come to this work for many reasons. Sometimes something specific has happened. Sometimes nothing is obviously wrong, but something keeps returning.
HOW THIS WORK HELPS
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Anxiety and panic · chronic stress · feeling constantly “on” · overwhelm · exhaustion · difficulty settling or recovering
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Experiences that still carry a charge · fight, flight, freeze, or shutdown · feeling stuck or disconnected · responses that seem bigger than the present moment
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Difficulty with closeness or boundaries · patterns of pulling away, pursuing, pleasing, or protecting · wanting to feel more present and connected with others
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Transitions · grief and loss · medical experiences · conflict · being seen · speaking up · taking up space · moments when your system responds even when part of you knows you’re safe
WHAT TO EXPECT
It May Look Like a Conversation. We’re Attuning to Everything Else.
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From the outside, a session can look surprisingly ordinary. We sit together and talk about what’s happening in your life, what you're noticing, or what you want to work with.
But we’re also paying attention to what happens as you talk: your breath changes, your shoulders brace, an image appears, you notice heat in your chest, an impulse to move away, or something settles. In Somatic Experiencing®, these aren’t interruptions to the conversation. They’re part of the conversation.
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We may slow down and stay with a sensation, follow an impulse, or move between something difficult and something that gives you more room to breathe. The work is paced so your system has time to respond without being pushed beyond what it can manage.
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Not at all. You don’t need to arrive knowing what sensations mean or how to work with them. Learning the language of your body is part of the work.
The body has more than one language: Sensation · Movement · Breath · Images · Emotion · Impulse · Meaning
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1:1 Somatic Experiencing® sessions are 50 minutes, $250 per session, and generally held weekly. A limited number of reduced-rate spaces may be available.
Sessions are available in person at 26 Court Street in Downtown Brooklyn and virtually. -
No. I am not a licensed mental health professional, and my scope of practice is somatic coaching. As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), my work is centered on the body and nervous system rather than diagnosis or psychotherapy.
Your history matters and can help us understand the patterns we're working with, but we don't necessarily need to spend extensive time analyzing or retelling it. We use what has happened as context while paying close attention to what your physiology is doing in the present. This allows our sessions to remain experiential and body-centered.
Somatic coaching is not a substitute for psychotherapy, medical care, or crisis support, and I may recommend working with a licensed healthcare professional when needs fall outside my scope of practice.
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State House Somatics is a private-pay practice and does not bill or work directly with insurance companies. Payment is made by credit or debit card at the time of your session.
Some clients may be able to use HSA or FSA funds for sessions, depending on their plan and eligibility. I’m happy to provide an itemized invoice or receipt for reimbursement or recordkeeping. Please check with your HSA/FSA administrator to confirm whether somatic coaching is an eligible expense.
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Yes. For in-person sessions, I offer Somatic Experiencing® touch work when it’s appropriate for what we’re working with and something you want to explore. Touch is always optional, collaborative, and consent-based.
SE touch is not massage or traditional bodywork. It offers another way of working directly with the nervous system and can be particularly useful when exploring support, boundaries, protective responses, and relational or attachment patterns.
Frequently Asked Questions
Begin with a Consultation
A complimentary consultation is a chance to tell me a little about what’s bringing you here, ask questions about Somatic Experiencing®, and get a sense of whether working together feels like a good fit.