Somatic Psychotherapy Services
for individual adults wanting to feel more alive
Hello! I’m Caitlin. Folks who come to see me are often looking for help with:
experiencing more balance and joy in life
feeling more authentic and self-confident
feeling less overwhelmed with difficult emotions/experiences
wanting relief from symptoms (PTSD, anxiety, depression, burnout, etc)
wanting more connection in relationships
getting out of negative cycles that keep repeating
wanting to learn healthier ways to cope with life stress
making sense of past trauma/childhood experiences
wanting to try something different or hitting a stuck point with traditional talk therapy
My Approach
My counseling approach is grounded in the importance of presence, attunement, and relationship. My intention is to create a healing environment and relationship where you feel welcomed, heard, and valued.
I do not believe you need to be “fixed.” Sometimes when we’ve been through trauma, we feel fractured or “broken.” When you walk into my office, I understand and believe that you are already whole and complete, as you are. My role is to help you access your innate capacity to heal by supporting your nervous system by building regulation and resilience. When we have a felt sense of safety, we have more access to “yes” or “no.” We feel more like ourselves or we can discover ourselves for the first time. We are able to be with the inevitable joys and sorrow in life with more flow and ease. That is my hope for you.
I believe that if allowed to experience safety and less survival energy, our bodies already know how to heal themselves. When our nervous systems have experienced trauma or chronic stress, they can become stuck in survival responses. This can look like fluctuating between seeing threat in everything and not being able to differentiate when a threat has passed. Or being completely shut down or disconnected from our bodies. When in a survival state, we experience symptoms. When your nervous system is able to move out of survival into safety, or “regulation”, we are working with the cause of your symptoms, not just alleviating symptoms.
With hundreds of hours of training and ongoing consultation in Somatic Experiencing® (SE) and Transforming Touch®, I use both of these modalities to help you build nervous system capacity. This work sets the foundation for you to feel more connection with yourself, in relationships, and increases your ability to move through stressful life events with more ease and vitality. I’ve found combining Transforming Touch® and SE work with talk therapy helps people achieve their goals faster than talk therapy alone.
SE is a naturalistic form of healing trauma and chronic stress that will help you learn how to settle and release physiological activation from your body.
Transforming Touch® is an attachment-focused, neurophysiological treatment utilizing hands-on healing for Developmental Trauma. This modality is based on the idea that when there are ruptures during early platform development, they continue to disrupt a person's life. It incorporates presence, regulation, and relationship to repair these ruptures and help people have access to greater capacity. Transforming Touch reflects the understandings of Developmental Trauma and relies on studies such as the Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) study that shows the importance of intervention in someone’s life who was exposed to Developmental Trauma. Intervention can and will prevent a lifetime of disease.
Treatment Areas
Stress & Anxiety
In this world, chronic stress is a part of life. When stress accumulates, many people experience symptoms of burnout, anxiety, and depression, which often manifest as physical complaints. We will work together to support your nervous system with releasing bound energy and identifying resources and supports you can use in your daily life to support yourself.
Trauma Recovery
Trauma is held in the body and in parts of the brain that can’t be accessed by thinking and talking alone.
When fight and flight are not options, we freeze and immobilize. If this threat response does not complete, the energy stays in our body, causing symptoms. Many people experience severe dysregulation and dissociation because the nervous system still detects an active threat.
To support and give the nervous system an opportunity to experience a sense of more regulation, ethical and intentional hands-on co-regulating touch support (Transforming Touch®) may be offered in combination with Somatic Experiencing® (SE). When regulation increases, people often feel more alive and capable of moving through their lives.
SE facilitates the completion of self-protective responses and the release of survival energy in a tolerable, titrated way. It helps address the root cause of symptoms. I will guide you with the process of helping your internal alarm turn “off” when it does not need to be “on” any more.
Personal Development
Many folks experience life transitions and stressors that cause them to question who they are. Together we can identify where you’re feeling stuck and explore the parts of yourself that you want to understand more. Additionally, if you’re looking to improve overall performance and want coaching with personal goals, we will work together to identify barriers and a path to getting you where you want to be - whether that be professionally, relationally, socially, or spiritually.
“Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence”
— Peter Levine, Founder of SE