Somatic coaching helps you build the capacity to stay present in your body with your sensations, emotions, and experience, so you can act from clarity, safety, and choice rather than automatic patterns.

This work supports your body’s ability to settle stress responses and rebuild steadiness from the inside out.

Instead of only talking about what’s happening, we use simple body-based tools such as breath, posture, movement, and attention to help you feel more grounded and connected in real time.

You learn to recognize how your body shows stress, release tension more effectively, and return to balance more quickly. This work is gentle and practical, supporting greater awareness, flexibility, and self-trust in daily life.

Therapy often focuses on understanding your past and the meaning behind your experiences. Somatic coaching focuses on what is happening now in your body and how stress responses show up in breath, tension, posture, and reactivity in everyday life.

We do not analyze or diagnose. Instead, we work directly with the body using breath awareness, posture, movement, and attention to help interrupt automatic patterns and support actions that are more aligned with your values, goals, and how you want to live.

This work does not replace therapy. It often complements it by helping you turn insight into lived, embodied change, especially if you have done a lot of thinking and talking and still feel stuck.

I teach functional breathing using the Oxygen Advantage® approach. This is a science-based method of working with your physiology that impacts nearly every system in the body, including stress response, sleep, energy, focus, mood, and cardiovascular function.

This is not emotional release breathwork or extreme, cathartic breathing methods like hyperventilation or cold-exposure breathing. Instead, this work is more like physical therapy for the breath, identifying inefficient patterns and retraining breathing toward what the body is designed for: nasal, light, slow, and deep breathing without effort.

Many people breathe in ways that keep the body in low-grade survival mode. These patterns are not failures. They are adaptations formed through stress, habit, and long periods of pushing through. Functional breathing retraining restores efficiency so oxygen delivery improves, carbon dioxide tolerance normalizes, and the nervous system receives steadier signals of safety.

This supports everyday functioning for people navigating stress, fatigue, anxiety, or poor sleep, and it also improves endurance, recovery, and focus for those who move, train, or perform. When breathing becomes functional again, both life and effort require less compensation.

No. This work is designed for everyday people, not specialists or advanced practitioners.

Many clients come in feeling unsure how to “be in their body” or worried they will do it wrong. That makes sense. Most of us were never taught how to notice breath or sensation without pushing, judging, or disconnecting.

We start exactly where you are. Everything is taught step by step, with clear guidance and plenty of choice, so you can build skill and confidence at a pace that feels manageable and supportive.

My background includes a master’s degree in counseling and advanced training in Integrative Somatic Trauma Therapy, alongside functional breathing through Oxygen Advantage®. I understand both the psychological and physiological dimensions of trauma, including how easily trauma survivors can feel flooded, overwhelmed, or disconnected from their bodies. Most of us were never actually taught how to feel our feelings or tolerate sensations safely. This work helps build those skills.

We do not analyze or retell traumatic experiences. Instead, we work with how trauma shows up today, often through breath patterns, tension, shutdown, hypervigilance, or difficulty staying present with sensation. We use a process called titration, moving in small, manageable steps so sensations and emotions stay within a tolerable range. This helps you learn how to be with your experience without being overwhelmed.

The goal is not to push or force change. It is to support your body in developing safety, capacity, and trust, so regulation and choice become more available in daily life.

In many cases, yes. Functional breathing and somatic work can be supportive alongside medical or mental health care, especially for stress, sleep, anxiety, chronic tension, or recovery.

That said, this work does not replace medical or mental health treatment. We will talk through any relevant health history during the intake and Connection Call to make sure this approach is appropriate and to determine whether collaboration with other providers is recommended.

If something is outside my scope, I will be clear about that. The goal is always safety, support, and alignment with your overall care.