Vision is our dominant sense. Up to 80% of the information we take in comes through sight—everything from beauty and connection to subtle (and not-so-subtle) threat cues. Our visual system is constantly scanning the world, shaped not only by culture and spirituality, but very much by our trauma history. In other words, our eyes don’t just see what’s there—they see what we’ve survived.

Vision Somatics®

My journey with Vision Somatics® began long before the model had a name. As a child, I noticed that I could “see” into people’s physiology. Walking past someone in a grocery store or sitting in a park, I could sense the health of their organs, areas of vulnerability, and sometimes even illness or injury. I didn’t seek this out—it simply happened. (As you can imagine, this wasn’t a gift my culture of origin or later academic environments celebrated.)

Like many intuitive capacities that don’t fit neatly into a résumé, it was tucked away for decades.

As I entered somatic therapy and developmental trauma work, this way of perceiving gradually resurfaced—this time grounded in training, theory, and clinical attunement. What once felt confusing became a precise and nuanced tool for trauma resolution, deepening both my clients’ healing and my understanding of how the body communicates beyond words.

Why Vision Somatics®

Vision Somatics® supports access to traumatized spaces—within an individual and across lineage—particularly when memories are fragmented or absent (which is often the case in developmental and generational trauma).

Research on implicit visual memory shows that attention and eye movements can be influenced by non-conscious processes. Emerging work on inherited imagery, meaning-patterns, and collective symbolic memory suggests that experience is carried across generations in ways the nervous system recognizes before consciousness does. Vision Somatics® engages this implicit realm, relying less on effort and more on how perception and intention quietly shape emotion, behaviour, belonging, and healing.

Over years of practice, I have also developed a clinically informed collection of therapeutic imagery designed to engage implicit visual memory, support orienting responses, foster coherence, and safely expand nervous system capacity.

Trauma often leaves behind fragmentation, disconnection, and a profound loneliness. By leaning into non-conscious sensory and meaning-patterns, Vision Somatics® helps uncover a quieter path back toward safety, coherence, and connection.

Vision Somatics® weaves together:

• Functional vision and the neural pathways connecting perception and regulation

• Archetypal imagery and symbol as anchors into the collective subtle body

• Somatic Parts Work to gently unburden protectors and exiles

• Somatic tracking of sensation, image, affect, behaviour, and meaning

• Gentle, purposeful eye movement

• A living collection of therapeutic imagery I have developed over years of clinical practice to support implicit memory, deepen orientation, and invite the nervous system toward safety, coherence, and belonging

A note on eye work

Vision Somatics® is not EMDR. While EMDR often moves directly toward the most activated core of a traumatic memory, Vision Somatics® approaches from the edges inward. The process may be slower, but it allows the nervous system to release activation without overwhelm, force, or heroics.

I have supported clients worldwide—online and in person—working with developmental trauma, intergenerational trauma, dissociation, out-of-body and near-death experiences, grief, loss, and addictions. The work continues to evolve—because living systems do.

What to Expect

Sessions are gentle, collaborative, and paced with care. We follow the wisdom of your nervous system rather than pushing for insight or catharsis. You do not need to retell traumatic stories in detail, and there is no expectation to “perform” healing.

Much of the work happens subtly: through shifts in sensation, perception, image, and guided eye movement. Many people notice increasing regulation, clarity, emotional ease, and a strengthening sense of belonging—sometimes during sessions, often afterward as the system integrates.

Sessions may feel quiet or surprisingly ordinary at times—profound trauma work does not have to arrive with fireworks. The goal is not intensity. The goal is safety, curiosity, capacity, and connection.

Above all, expect an attuned, respectful partnership—one that honours your history, your body’s intelligence, and your unique timing for healing.