Queer Somatic Therapist in Vancouver

What Is Somatic Therapy?

Somatic therapy bridges the mind and body to address emotional pain at its physiological roots. Traumatic experiences are often held not just in memory, but in muscle tension, breath patterns, and nervous system dysregulation.

Rather than pushing through or analyzing your experience, we’ll work slowly and collaboratively to attune to your body’s cues—like sensations, images, emotions, and movements. This body-first approach supports healing from CPTSD, attachment wounding, dissociation, and more.

Somatic Therapy Can Help You:

• Feel safer and more grounded in your body

• Shift chronic anxiety, shutdown, or hypervigilance

• Understand your triggers and build resilience

• Reconnect with sensation, pleasure, and presence

• Increase your capacity for intimacy and authenticity

A Somatic Approach for Neurodivergent Folks

Somatic therapy can be especially helpful for neurodivergent people who experience sensory sensitivity, shutdown, or numbness. Together, we work to gently widen your window of tolerance—the range within which your nervous system can experience emotion and sensation without becoming overwhelmed.

Over time, this allows for greater self-awareness, emotional regulation, and capacity to stay present with experiences that may have once felt too much or not enough. You’ll build skills to track sensation, notice activation early, and respond with care instead of collapse or overload.

Is Somatic Therapy Right for You?

This work might resonate if you:

• Feel stuck in your head and want to reconnect with your body

• Have tried talk therapy but still feel trapped in the same patterns

• Live with complex trauma, dissociation, or chronic shame

• Are curious about embodiment, nervous system healing, and trauma resolution

• Long for relationships where you can show up more fully as yourself

Ready to Reconnect With Yourself?

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