Many of our experiences begin long before we have words for them. They may show up in the way we relate to others, how we respond to closeness or conflict, or in the body's familiar movements toward vigilance, withdrawal, collapse, or overwhelm.

Sometimes we understand these patterns very well, yet they continue.

I offer individual online somatic sessions for people exploring developmental and attachment trauma, early experiences, and the ways our bodies continue to organize around them.

Sessions are available locally and internationally, subject to local practice requirements.

When early experience continues into the present

You may recognize yourself in experiences such as:

• Feeling overwhelmed by closeness, conflict, or separation

• Finding yourself repeatedly withdrawing, freezing, or losing access to what you feel

• Living with chronic vigilance, anxiety, or exhaustion

• Having difficulty sensing boundaries, needs, or a stable sense of self

• Experiencing disconnection from the body, or emotions that are difficult to understand

• Carrying the effects of early relationships, family patterns, or experiences that have never been clearly remembered

These experiences often do not fit into a simple narrative. Nor do they necessarily resolve through insight alone.

The work I do offers another way to approach them.

How we work together

My work draws on Somatic Experiencing®, integrated somatic approaches to developmental trauma, and perceptual exploration.

We may work with sensation, emotion, movement, breath, image, relational responses, or subtle shifts in attention. Through these, developmental, pre- and perinatal, or generational material becomes relevant.

Vision Somatics®, an approach I developed, may also enter the work through imagery and symbolic perception, particularly when experience is difficult to reach directly through language.

There is no fixed sequence and no requirement to revisit overwhelming events.

The work is relational and carefully paced. We can begin with the smallest thread of what is already here, allowing experiences to become perceptible without pushing them toward an explanation or a particular outcome.

Can somatic work happen online?

Yes. Much of this work unfolds through attention, perception, movement, and relationship, none of which requires us to be in the same room.

An online session is not simply a conversation about what has happened.

Just as when we are in the same room, we can notice how an experience is unfolding in the present: a change in breath, an impulse to move, a subtle withdrawal, an image, or a moment of increased contact with yourself.

We work with these responses as they emerge, at a pace that allows room for choice.

Online sessions also make it possible to work from a familiar environment, without the additional demands of travel.

About my approach

I am a somatic practitioner and educator with extensive training in integrated somatic trauma work, movement, and body-oriented approaches to human experience.

My background as a classical pianist, with a doctorate in piano performance, has also shaped my understanding of attention, perception, expression, and the often intricate relationship between the body and what cannot yet be spoken.

I am the creator of Vision Somatics® and the author of From the Underworld, a somatic exploration of developmental trauma, survival, and the body beneath language.

I am particularly interested in experiences that begin early, remain difficult to name, and continue to shape how we inhabit ourselves and our relationships.

Working together from anywhere

Based in Canada, I offer individual online somatic sessions internationally, wherever this work can appropriately be provided.

You are welcome to contact me with questions about the approach, online availability, or whether this work might be suitable for you.

Somatic sessions can complement medical or psychological care and are not a replacement for services requiring local clinical oversight.