Vision is our dominating sense. We receive up to 80% of our overall impressions through our sight. We receive threat warnings by means of our sight. How we interpret visual signals is strongly influenced by our cultural and spiritual background and conditioning, and even more so by our trauma history.

My journey with Vision Somatics® began long before the model was born. As a child, I found that I had the ability to see into people’s physiology. Often, I would walk by someone at the grocery store or at the park, and could tell the health of their organs, whether they had ongoing illness, and even whether they would have accidents, fractures and so on. My system was able to detect vulnerability in others’ organs, systems and energy fields.

My culture of origin, and later, the heavily academic environments in which I worked were most definitely not supportive of this gift of “seeing,” so I disowned it for decades, unable to find its purpose. As I began to move toward somatic healing models and developmental trauma work, this ability to “see” into another’s body became a crucial part of the deeply nuanced trauma resolution work that my clients and I do.

I created Vision Somatics® to support this work as well as my clients’ own access to traumatized spaces within themselves or their lineage, especially in the absence of explicit memories and narratives.

Vision Somatics® is a gentle therapeutic process that accesses what lies beyond the visible. Studies on implicit visual memory have shown that attention and eye movements can work purposefully, guided by “implicit memory” mechanisms. This, together with current research on “implicit collective memory” and the power of inherited symbols and patterns have supported my work on Vision Somatics®. This model relies on the non-conscious and non-intentional , and on how it influences our perception, behaviours, actions and ultimately, healing. I believe that implicit collective memory holds large untapped potential for trauma healing work.

Developmental and generational trauma are about separation, fragmentation and attunement rupture. About a feeling of profound, and at times, devastating loneliness. Leaning into non-conscious, collective sensory and meaning patterns shows the way on the overgrown path toward belonging and safety.

Vision Somatics™ brings together:

-Functional vision, which refers to the entire visual system, including the eyes, visual pathways and other areas of the brain, and the process through which these elements come together to support understanding of and engagement with the environment

-Archetypal imagery and symbols as an anchor into the collective subtle body

- Somatic parts work, which supports the unburdening of protectors and exiles within the body

-Somatic tracking of sensation, image, behaviour, affect, meaning)

-Gentle, purposeful eye movement

Please note that Vision Somatics® eye work is different from EMDR. While EMDR may target the most challenging part of a traumatic event, our eye work supports gentle processing from the outside edges of trauma toward the core. While the healing journey may be slower in this case, the release of traumatic activation can be very powerful.

To date, I have supported somatic trauma work through Vision Somatics® worldwide, including in the United States, via online platforms and in person. This work facilitates healing in areas such as transgenerational trauma, developmental trauma, dissociative disorders, out of body and near-death experiences, grief, loss and addictions. It is supportive of healing work at any age, and continues to evolve as a therapeutic model.

My own Vision Somatics™ therapy imagery has become an additional layer of support for this therapeutic model. The images are the result of decades of research on patterns of energy around collective symbols and body systems and functions. This collection leans deeply into archetype work, and supports healing in areas of the body where traumatic energy is stored - from eyes, organs and sphincters to fascia, muscles and bones. Explore this layered work with me!