My practice is rooted in integrative somatic therapies that work directly with the nervous system, body memory, and belief architecture to support trauma resolution and reconnection with self.
I draw from modalities including PsychoNeuroEnergetics (PNE), Somatic Release Technique (SRT), and, for select clients, Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP). These approaches share a body-led philosophy: that the body holds what the mind cannot yet speak, and that true transformation happens not through analysis, but through deep attunement to sensation, movement, and relational safety.
All three modalities engage the primary regions of the brain involved in trauma:
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The brainstem, where survival responses like freeze and shutdown are held
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The limbic system, which stores emotional memory and relational imprints
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The neocortex, where belief systems and meaning-making live
Somatic Release Technique (SRT)
Inspired by Dr. Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing® and conveyed by trauma experts Judith Johnson and Catalina Ureta, Somatic Release Technique (SRT) is a gentle, body-centered approach to supporting trauma resolution through direct awareness of bodily sensation.
Facilitation involves sitting upright and tuning into the presence of internal movements—a “felt sense” that naturally activates the body’s self-regulatory processes. This attunement often leads us to areas of blocked energy, structural misalignment, and limiting belief systems stored within the nervous system
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As these patterns begin to resolve, the body may respond with spontaneous expressions such as twitching, trembling, shaking, yawning, burping, crying, laughter, sweating, or a deep sense of calm and restoration.
PsychnoNeuroEnergetics (PNE)
Developed by Judith Johnson, PsychoNeuroEnergetics (PNE) is a powerful and effective modality designed to unwind trauma paralysis, resolve survival patterning, and restore confidence in the body’s natural instincts. PNE integrates the body-based practices of Somatic Experiencing, the energetic point-holding of Body Electronics, the science of Polyvagal Theory, and the psychology of Transactional Analysis to safely process trauma and support nervous system reorganization.
Facilitation involves tracking the client’s “felt sense” — the internal awareness of physical sensation — while applying sustained pressure to specific neurosomatic points in the body, most commonly GB20 (also known as the “Wind Pool” points in Traditional Chinese Medicine), where the dual vagus nerve exits the skull.
Stimulation of these points allows access to the brain regions involved in trauma storage and survival patterning: the brainstem, limbic system, and neocortex. This process stabilizes the nervous system while supporting the safe emergence and integration of unprocessed memories, emotions, and belief systems. As old survival strategies unwind, clients often regain access to deeper emotional wellbeing and pathways of connection once blocked by unconscious defenses.
At a foundational level, vagus nerve stimulation helps move the system into parasympathetic regulation—restoring the body’s natural “rest and digest” functions, and opening access to a deeper sense of self.
Psychedelic Somatic Interpersonal Psychotherapy (PSIP)
Developed by Saj Razvi, LPC—former clinical researcher in a MAPS Phase 2 trial of MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD—PSIP is an advanced, somatic-based, highly relational modality designed to resolve trauma at the root level of the autonomic nervous system.
Like PNE, PSIP is body-led and grounded in relational presence, drawing from attachment theory and real-time transference between client and practitioner. This work supports the emergence and resolution of survival responses stored in the nervous system—often including dissociation, sympathetic activation, and other incomplete trauma responses.
PSIP is uniquely structured to work with non-ordinary states of consciousness, but can be practiced in fully sober states as well. Rather than bypassing dysregulation, this method gently invites it forward, allowing the body to complete what was once interrupted. Depending on the client’s system, sessions may involve eyes closed with selective inhibition (intentionally pausing self-regulatory movements), or eyes open with sustained relational contact.
Sessions are intensive, typically lasting two hours, and are available only to clients who have completed at least three in-person Somatic Trauma Resolution sessions.