When You’re Ready to Meet Your Body Beyond Words
Somatic Experiencing® sessions for anxiety, trauma, overwhelm, and the patterns that shape how you feel, relate, and move through the world.
Based in Brooklyn, New York · Serving clients worldwide
I work with people who are ready to go beyond insight—and work with what they’re experiencing in the body.
Some people come to somatic work after years of therapy, coaching, or meaningful inner work. Others simply know that something is happening that they want to understand differently. Somatic work brings the body into that process—working with sensation, emotion, impulse, and the nervous system alongside what you think, feel, and already understand.
How Somatic Experiencing® Works With the Body
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.
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.
WHAT SOMATIC WORK CAN HELP WITH
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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
Ways to Work Together
SOMATIC ANXIETY
When anxiety lives in the body
Anxiety can show up as racing thoughts, tension, bracing, restlessness, vigilance, or difficulty settling. Somatic anxiety work brings attention to what is happening in the body, not just the story around it.
Through somatic coaching and nervous-system work, we explore patterns of activation and build greater capacity for regulation, recovery, and choice.
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SOMATIC TRAUMA
When the past still shapes the present
Somatic Experiencing® is a body-oriented approach to working with trauma, stress, attachment patterns, and protective responses such as fight, flight, freeze, or collapse.
Rather than requiring you to retell what happened, we work with what is happening now to support greater capacity for presence, recovery, connection, and choice.
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NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
When your system needs more options
You don’t need a diagnosis or particular trauma history to benefit from nervous-system work. We explore how your system responds to stress, identify patterns of activation and settling, and develop practical resources for regulation and recovery.
The goal isn’t constant calm. It’s having more options when your state changes.
NEW TO ONGOING 1:1 WORK?Begin With STATE HOUSE Foundations
State House Foundations is six 1:1 sessions for $1,500. Learn more about what happens across the six sessions and how the work unfolds.
You may be coming in with something specific you want to work with — anxiety, trauma, C-PTSD, chronic illness, or a pattern that has been with you for a long time. You’re in the right place.
New clients begin with State House Foundations, six private sessions that give us time to understand your nervous system, build the somatic skills and resources we’ll use together, and begin working with what brought you here.
By the end, I’ll have a fuller understanding of your system and what longer-term work might look like. You’ll also have had six sessions to experience the work for yourself and decide whether continuing together feels like the right fit.
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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. -
My work is somatic therapy and coaching focused on the body and nervous system. I am a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), but I am not a licensed mental health professional and do not provide psychotherapy or diagnose mental health conditions.
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, allowing the work to remain experiential and body-centered.
I do not work with clients who are in active crisis. This work is not a substitute for psychotherapy or medical care.
Many clients choose to work with me alongside a licensed therapist or other healthcare professional. Somatic Experiencing can complement other forms of care, and I am happy to collaborate with your therapist or other providers, with your permission, when that would be helpful.
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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
WHAT TO EXPECT IN SOMATIC EXPERIENCING® SESSIONS
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 and much like talk therapy. 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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You don’t need to. Learning to notice and understand what’s happening in your body is part of the work.
The body has more than one language: Sensation · Movement · Breath · Images · Emotion · Impulse · Meaning
Begin with your body not against it
Whether you’re coming in for somatic anxiety, Somatic Experiencing®, or to learn how to regulate your nervous system, you don’t need to know exactly where to begin. The first step is simply a conversation. Tell me what’s bringing you here, and we’ll figure out where to start together.