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Somatic Practitioner

Maybe you’ve done a lot of the work already. You’ve read the books, talked things through, understand your patterns and yet you still find yourself feeling anxious, overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in the same cycles.

This is where somatic work offers another doorway.

I’m a somatic practitioner with 15 years of experience working alongside people through personal growth, trauma, relationships, and life transitions. I hold a Master’s degree in Counselling and Spirituality, which I completed in 2012, and have spent the past 15 years continuing to deepen my understanding of trauma, attachment, nervous system regulation, and embodied healing.

My work has evolved increasingly toward the body and the wisdom it holds. I completed a two-year Somatic Attachment certification with Lisa Mortimore and continue my training in Somatic Experiencing®. I have also facilitated somatic counselling trainings, facilitated Somatic Experiencing® intermediate trainings, and teach trauma-focused material to counselling students through Rhodes College.

While my work with you is specifically as a somatic practitioner, I bring the depth of 15 years of professional experience, graduate education, extensive somatic training, and years of teaching and facilitating embodied work.

How I Work

I believe you are the expert on your own experience. My role isn’t to fix you or tell you what you should be feeling. It is to help you become more curious about what is happening within you.

Together, we may explore your nervous system, breath, sensations, movement, emotions, impulses, boundaries, and patterns. You don’t need to be “good at” feeling your body, and you don’t need to have everything figured out before we begin.

My approach is warm, relational, intuitive, and grounded. I want our work to help you feel more connected to yourself, develop greater capacity to navigate life’s challenges, and create more choice in how you move through the world.

I also offer psychedelic integration support, using a somatic and grounded approach to help you make meaning of and integrate transformative experiences.

Education & Training

• Master of Arts in Counselling & Spirituality, 2012

• Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology, Carleton University, 2010

• Two-Year Somatic Attachment Certification, Lisa Mortimore

• Somatic Experiencing® Training, ongoing

• Somatic Experiencing® Intermediate Training

• ICF Coaching Fundamentals

• Nervous System Tune-Up, Irene Lyon

• Ten Days of Mindfulness Training, Yasodhara Ashram

• SAFER Suicide Intervention & Prevention

• San’yas Indigenous Cultural Training

60 minutes | $200
Private pay / out-of-pocket.